A reaction-diffusion-advection equation with mixed and free boundary conditions

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DOI10.1007/S10884-017-9571-9zbMATH Open1395.35106arXiv1504.00998OpenAlexW2963107788WikidataQ111161061 ScholiaQ111161061MaRDI QIDQ1663181FDOQ1663181

Mingxin Wang, Yonggang Zhao

Publication date: 21 August 2018

Published in: Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a reaction-diffusion-advection equation of the form (t>0,,0<x<h(t)) with mixed boundary condition at x=0 and a free boundary condition at x=h(t). Such a model may be applied to describe the dynamical process of a new or invasive species adopting a combination of random movement and advection upward or downward along the resource gradient, with the free boundary representing the expanding front. The goal of this paper is to understand the effect of advection environment and no flux across the left boundary on the dynamics of this species. When , we first derive the spreading-vanishing dichotomy and sharp threshold for spreading and vanishing. Then provide a much sharper estimate for the spreading speed of h(t) and the uniform convergence of u(t,x) when spreading happens. For the case , some results concerning spreading, virtual spreading, vanishing and virtual vanishing are obtained. Where c0 is the minimal speed of traveling waves of the differential equation.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00998





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