Criteria for the (in)stability of planar interfaces in singularly perturbed 2-component reaction-diffusion equations

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2022.133596zbMATH Open1505.35020arXiv2207.05128OpenAlexW4310063265MaRDI QIDQ2111744FDOQ2111744

Paul Carter, Erin Obermayer, Arjen Doelman, Shreyas Rao, Kaitlynn Lilly

Publication date: 17 January 2023

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a class of singularly perturbed 2-component reaction-diffusion equations which admit bistable traveling front solutions, manifesting as sharp, slow-fast-slow, interfaces between stable homogeneous rest states. In many example systems, such as models of desertification fronts in dryland ecosystems, such fronts can exhibit an instability by which the interface destabilizes into fingering patterns. Motivated by the appearance of such patterns, we propose two versions of a 2D stability criterion for (transversal) long wavelength perturbations along the interface of these traveling slow-fast-slow fronts. The fronts are constructed using geometric singular perturbation techniques by connecting slow orbits on two distinct normally hyperbolic slow manifolds through a heteroclinic orbit in the fast problem. The associated stability criteria are expressed in terms of the nonlinearities of the system and the slow-fast-slow structure of the fronts. We illustrate and further elaborate the general set-up by explicitly working out the existence and transversal (in)stability of traveling fronts in a number of example systems/models. We analytically establish the instability of invading bare soil/vegetation interfaces against transversal long wavelength perturbations in several dryland ecosystem models and numerically recover fingering vegetation patterns counter-invading an invading desertification front.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05128

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zbMATH Keywords

interfacereaction-diffusion equationsgeometric singular perturbation theoryecosystem dynamicssideband instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Second-order parabolic systems (35K40) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57)

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