The role of convection in the existence of wavefronts for biased movements

DOI10.1002/MMA.9667arXiv2304.02305OpenAlexW4386852234MaRDI QIDQ6118917FDOQ6118917

Luisa Malaguti, Andrea Corli, Diego Berti

Publication date: 21 March 2024

Published in: Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a model, inspired by (Johnston et al., Sci. Rep., 7:42134, 2017), to describe the movement of a biological population which consists of isolated and grouped organisms. We introduce biases in the movements and then obtain a scalar reaction-diffusion equation which includes a convective term as a consequence of the biases. We focus on the case the diffusivity makes the parabolic equation of forward-backward-forward type and the reaction term models a strong Allee effect, with the Allee parameter lying between the two internal zeros of the diffusion. In such a case, the unbiased equation (i.e., without convection) possesses no smooth traveling-wave solutions; on the contrary, in the presence of convection, we show that traveling-wave solutions do exist for some significant choices of the parameters. We also study the sign of their speeds, which provides information on the long term behavior of the population, namely, its survival or extinction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02305

zbMATH Keywords

population dynamicsbiased movementtraveling-wave solutionsdiffusion-convection-reaction equationssign-changing diffusivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65)

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