Pushed, pulled and pushmi-pullyu fronts of the Burgers-FKPP equation

arXiv2108.07861MaRDI QIDQ6375469FDOQ6375469

Lenya Ryzhik, Christopher Henderson, Jing An

Publication date: 17 August 2021

Abstract: We consider the long time behavior of the solutions to the Burgers-FKPP equation with advection of a strength $$. This equation exhibits a transition from pulled to pushed front behavior at $$. We prove convergence of the solutions to a traveling wave in a reference frame centered at a position $$ and study the asymptotics of the front location $$. When $$, it has the same form as for the standard Fisher-KPP equation established by Bramson cite{Bramson1,Bramson2}: $$ as $to+infty$. This form is typical of pulled fronts. When $$, the front is located at the position $$ with $$, which is the typical form of pushed fronts. However, at the critical value $$, the expansion changes to $$, reflecting the "pushmi-pullyu" nature of the front. The arguments for $$ rely on a new weighted Hopf-Cole transform that allows to control the advection term, when combined with additional steepness comparison arguments. The case $$ relies on standard pushed front techniques. The proof in the case $$ is much more intricate and involves arguments not usually encountered in the study of the Bramson correction. It relies on a somewhat hidden viscous conservation law structure of the Burgers-FKPP equation at $$ and utilizes a dissipation inequality, which comes from a relative entropy type computation, together with a weighted Nash inequality involving dynamically changing weights.

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