Travelling wave solutions of density dependent diffusion equations

1992 ◽  
Vol 72 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
E. V. Krishnan
Author(s):  
Teresa Faria ◽  
Wenzhang Huang ◽  
Jianhong Wu

We develop a new approach to obtain the existence of travelling wave solutions for reaction–diffusion equations with delayed non-local response. The approach is based on an abstract formulation of the wave profile as a solution of an operational equation in a certain Banach space, coupled with an index formula of the associated Fredholm operator and some careful estimation of the nonlinear perturbation. The general result relates the existence of travelling wave solutions to the existence of heteroclinic connecting orbits of a corresponding functional differential equation, and this result is illustrated by an application to a model describing the population growth when the species has two age classes and the diffusion of the individual during the maturation process leads to an interesting non-local and delayed response for the matured population.


1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 3417-3426
Author(s):  
Zheng-Yuan Li ◽  
Ming-Xin Wang ◽  
Ya-Ping Wu ◽  
Qi-Xiao Ye

Author(s):  
Anna Ghazaryan ◽  
Peter Gordon ◽  
Alexander Virodov

We consider a system of two reaction diffusion equations with the Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piskunov (KPP) type nonlinearity which describes propagation of pressure-driven flames. It is known that the system admits a family of travelling wave solutions parameterized by their velocity. In this paper, we show that these travelling fronts are stable under the assumption that perturbations belong to an appropriate weighted L 2 space. We also discuss an interesting meta-stable pattern the system exhibits in certain cases.


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