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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1686214
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English | Travelling waves in a nonlinear degenerate diffusion model for bacterial pattern formation |
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Travelling waves in a nonlinear degenerate diffusion model for bacterial pattern formation (English)
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7 January 2002
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The authors study a reaction-diffusion model recently proposed to describe the spatiotemperal evolution of the bacterium Bacillus subtilis on agar plates containing nutrient. An interesting mathematical feature of the model, which is a coupled pair of partial differential equations, is that the bacterial density satisfies a degenerate nonlinear diffusion equation. It is shown numerically that this model can exhibit quasi-one-dimensional constant speed travelling wave solutions. Here, the authors present an analytic study of the existence and uniqueness problem for constant speed travelling wave solutions. They find that such solutions exist only for speeds greater than some threshold speed giving minimum speed waves which have a sharp profile. For speeds greater than this minimum speed the waves are smooth. They also characterise the dependence of the wave profile on the decay of the front of the initial perturbation in bacterial density. An investigation of the partial differential equation problem establishes, via a global existence and uniqueness argument, that these waves are the only long time solutions supported by the problem. Numerical solutions to the partial differential equation problem are presented and they confirm the results of the analysis.
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travelling waves
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bacterial pattern formation
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diffusion model
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degenerate nonlinear diffusion equation
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