Wave solutions to reaction-diffusion systems in perforated domains (Q5949160)

The author studies a semilinear reaction-diffusion system in a periodically perforated domain. The results are applied to so-called bistable nonlinearities. The considered system is a non-standard boundary value problem for a parabolic equation. It can be regarded as degenerate elliptic in \(n+1\) variables, since the boundary conditions are nowhere characteristic. The system is studied for small \(\varepsilon\), close to the homogenization limit. It is assumed the existence of a traveling wave for the homogenized problem, which is, in the case studied in this paper, an ordinary differential equation. The implicit function theorem is used to obtain, in an appropriate function space, a unique branch of traveling waves for small \(\varepsilon\). Besides, corrector-type estimates are given for the wave profile and the wave velocity.