Fisher-KPP equation with free boundaries and time-periodic advections (Q2403757)

The paper deals with the long time behaviour of the solutions to a free boundary problem for a reaction-diffusion-advection equation of the form \[ \begin{cases} u_t=u_{xx}-\beta(t)u_x+f(t,u) & g(t)<x<h(t),\;t>0,\\ u(t,g(t))=0,\;g'(t)=-\mu(t)u_x(t,g(t)) & t>0,\\ u(t,h(t))=0,\;h'(t)=-\mu(t)u_x(t,h(t)) & t>0,\\ -g(0)=h(0)=h_0,\;u(0,x)=u_0(x) & -h_0\leq x\leq h_0, \end{cases} \] where \(\mu,\) \(\beta\) and \(f\) are \(T\)-periodic functions in time \(t,\) \(f(t,u)\) represents a Fisher-KPP type of nonlinearity, \(h_0>0\) and \(u_0\) is a nonnegative function with support in \([-h_0,h_0].\) The authors show that a vanishing-spreading dichotomy result holds when \(\beta\) is small; a vanishing-transition-virtual spreading trichotomy result holds when \(\beta\) is a medium-sized function, while all solutions vanish when \(\beta\) is large.