Stability and bifurcation of a reaction-diffusion-advection model with nonlinear boundary condition (Q6046530)

The authors study the dynamics of a reaction-diffusion-advection population model with nonlinear boundary condition, both from a theoretical and numerical point of view. Trough the Crandall-Rabinowitz bifurcation theorem, a Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction method, and a perturbation method, in which bifurcation from simple eigenvalue and that from degenerate simple eigenvalue are both possible, they analyze the existence and stability of nontrivial steady states. Next, they study a parabolic equation with monostable nonlinear boundary condition, and a parabolic equation with sublinear growth and super-linear boundary condition. Nonlinear boundary condition can lead to various steady state bifurcations. Nonlinear boundary condition can induce the multiplicity and growing-up property of positive steady-state solutions for the model with logistic interior growth. Finally, the numerical results show that the advection term affect to the bifurcation direction of some bifurcation, and also affect to the density distribution of the species.