Survival, extinction, and interface stability in a two-phase moving boundary model of biological invasion

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DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2023.133912zbMATH Open1530.92310arXiv2306.15379MaRDI QIDQ6090656FDOQ6090656


Authors: Matthew J. Simpson, Nizhum Rahman, Scott W. McCue, Alexander K. Y. Tam Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 17 November 2023

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

Abstract: We consider a moving boundary mathematical model of biological invasion. The model describes the spatiotemporal evolution of two populations: each population undergoes linear diffusion and logistic growth, and the boundary between the two populations evolves according to a two--phase Stefan condition. This mathematical model describes situations where one population invades into regions occupied by the other population, such as the spreading of a malignant tumour into surrounding tissues. Full time--dependent numerical solutions are obtained using a level--set numerical method. We use these numerical solutions to explore several properties of the model including: (i) survival and extinction of one population initially surrounded by the other; and (ii) linear stability of the moving front boundary in the context of a travelling wave solution subjected to transverse perturbations. Overall, we show that many features of the well--studied one--phase single population analogue of this model can be very different in the more realistic two--phase setting. These results are important because realistic examples of biological invasion involve interactions between multiple populations and so great care should be taken when extrapolating predictions from a one--phase single population model to cases for which multiple populations are present. Open source Julia--based software is available on GitHub to replicate all results in this study.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15379







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