Spatial temporal dynamics of Nicholson blowfly equation with two shifting parameters (Q6971752)

In this paper, the authors obtain new results on the spreading speed and asymptotic propagation properties for a diffusive Nicholson's equation with two shifting parameters. Comparing with the classical Nicholson's equation, the model equation in this paper has three novel features:\N\begin{itemize}\N\item[(i)] two shifting parameters with solid ecological background which have opposite monotonicity;\N\item[(ii)] a maturation delay in the unknown, and\N\item[(iii)] a shifting mediated phase delay on the profile of the birth rate function.\N\end{itemize}\NThese features make the equation in this paper a novel, interesting, and yet challenging equation and brings in some challenges in mathematics.\N\NBy using the method of iterative strategies of travelling wave maps, they first give a priori estimates on nontrivial solutions which play a key role in the proof of global asymptotic behavior. Then based on the estimates in combination with proper test functions, they establish the spatial-temporal propagation dynamics of this extended Nicholson's equation. These results develop a unified method for exploring the spreading speeds and asymptotic propagation phenomena for a class of nontranslation invariant delay reaction-diffusion equations on \(\mathbb{R}^N\).