Travelling waves for reaction-diffusion-convection systems (Q1270575): Difference between revisions

This paper deals with the existence of a monotone travelling wave solution for the reaction-diffusion-convection system \(u_t= Au_{xx}+ G(u,u_x)u_x+ f(u)\), \(u\in\mathbb{R}^N\), under the following hypotheses: (a) \(A\) is a positive definite diagonal matrix. (f1) \(f:\mathbb{R}^N\to \mathbb{R}^N\) is locally monotone. (f2) \(S\) and \(T\) are stable equilibria of \(f\) and \(S< T\). (f3) There is a finite number of equilibria \(E\) of \(f\) with \(S< E< T\) and each such \(E\) is unstable. (g1) \(G\) is continuously differentiable, diagonal-matrix-valued function on \(\mathbb{R}^N\times \mathbb{R}^N\) and there exist continuous functions \(\beta,\gamma: [0,\infty)\to [0,\infty)\) such that for each \(u,v\in \mathbb{R}^N\), \[ \| G(u,v)\|\leq\gamma(\| u\|)(1+\beta(\| v\|)), \] where \(\beta\) is increasing and \(\beta(p)/p\to 0\) as \(p\to\infty\). Suppose that \(\beta_\infty\) is such that \(\beta(p)/p\leq \beta_\infty\). (g2) \(G(E,0)\) is positive definite at each equilibrium \(E\) of \(f\) in \([S,T]\). In the main result the growth condition (g1) is relaxed if \(G\) is monotone in a certain weak sense. The proof makes use of degree theory for mappings of class \((S_+)\) in a weighted Sobolev space.