Global stabilization and boundary control of generalized Fisher/KPP equation and application to diffusive SIS model (Q828298)

As one of the cornerstones of modern mathematical biology and mathematical physics, the qualitative behavior of the classic Fisher/KPP equation with constant or location-dependent parameters has been studied extensively. However, little is known about the case when the parameters depend on both location and time. In realistic physical/biological environments, the growth rate, carrying capacity and diffusion coefficient may depend on both location and time. Hence, it is meaningful to investigate that how the spatial-temporal variability of the parameters affect the qualitative behavior of solutions to the generalized Fisher/KPP equation. In this paper, the authors investigated the global stabilization of solutions to initial-boundary value problems for the generalized Fisher/KPP equation. The main results are as follows: (1) under the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition, equilibrium states determined by the generalized carrying capacity are globally asymptotically stable; (2) under the Dirichlet-type dynamic boundary condition, the dynamics of solutions is driven/controlled by the boundary data in the large-time limit. As an application, the authors considered the diffusive susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model in mathematical epidemiology. Since the diffusive SIS model can be reformulated as a control problem subject to the zero Dirichlet boundary condition with an appropriate control action, they established similar results.