Propagation speed in a strip bounded by a line with different diffusion

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Abstract: In this paper we consider a model for the diffusion of a population in a strip-shaped field, where the growth of the species is governed by a Fisher-KPP equation and which is bounded on one side by a road where the species can have a different diffusion coefficient. Dirichlet homogeneous boundary conditions are imposed on the other side of the strip. We prove the existence of an asymptotic speed of propagation which is greater than the one of the case without road and study its behavior for small and large diffusions on the road. Finally we prove that, when the width of the strip goes to infinity, the asymptotic speed of propagation approaches the one of an half-plane bounded by a road, case that has been recently studied in [2],[3].


A model for the diffusion of a population in a strip-shaped field is studied: \[ \begin{cases} u_t(x, t)-D u_{xx}(x, t)=\nu v(x, L, t)-\mu u(x, t) , &x\in \mathbb R,\; t>0, \\ v_t(x, y, t)-d\Delta v(x, y, t)=f(v), &(x, y)\in \Omega,\; t>0, \\ dv_y(x, L, t)=\mu u(x, t)-\nu v(x, L, t), &x\in \mathbb R, \; t>0,\\ v(x,0,t)=0, &x\in \mathbb R, \; t>0, \end{cases} \] where \(\Omega=\mathbb R \times (0, L)\) is a strip, and homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions are imposed for the other part of the boundary of the field. The diffusion coefficient \(D>0\) on a road may be different from \(d>0\) in the field. The function \(f\in C^1([0, +\infty)) \) is a reaction of Fisher-KPP type, which satisfies \(f(0)=0=f(1)\), \(0<f(s)<f'(0)s \) in \((0,1)\) and \(f<0\) in \((1, +\infty)\). For the strip \(\Omega\), the author studies the long time behavior of the solutions of this system. Firstly, the author proves that if the strip is not sufficiently large, the influence of the unfavorable region \(y=0\) drives the species to extinction; on the contrary, the species will persist if the strip is sufficiently large. Then the author studies the asymptotic speed of propagation of this system.











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