Traveling wave solutions for a predator-prey system with sigmoidal response function

DOI10.1007/S10884-011-9220-7MaRDI QIDQ657755zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Chufen Wu, Xiao-Biao Lin, Peixuan Weng

Publication date 10 January 2012

Published in Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3913

LaSalle's invariance principle shooting method traveling wave solution Ważewski set

Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: We study the existence of traveling wave solutions for a diffusive predator-prey system. The system considered in this paper is governed by a Sigmoidal response function which is more general than those studied previously. Our method is an improvement to the original method introduced in the work of Dunbar cite{Dunbar1,Dunbar2}. A bounded Wazewski set is used in this work while unbounded Wazewski sets were used in cite{Dunbar1,Dunbar2}. The existence of traveling wave solutions connecting two equilibria is established by using the original Wazewski's theorem which is much simpler than the extended version in Dunbar's work.

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The authors study the following reaction-diffusion predator-prey system \[ \begin{aligned} \frac{\partial N_1}{\partial t}&=D_1\frac{\partial^2 N_1}{\partial x^2}+rN_1(1-\frac{N_1}{K})-\frac{N_1^2N_2}{a_1+b_1N_1+N_1^2},\\ \frac{\partial N_2}{\partial t}&=D_2\frac{\partial^2 N_2}{\partial x^2}+\frac{\alpha N_1^2N_2}{a_1+b_1N_1+N_1^2}-eN_2, \end{aligned}\tag{1} \] where \(N_1(x,t)\) and \(N_2(x,t)\) represent the densities of the prey and the predator populations at time \(t\) and location \(x\), respectively. The parameters \( a_1, b_1, e, r, K, D_1, D_2\) and \(\alpha\) are positive constants. System (1) is governed by a sigmoidal response function which in some applications is more realistic than the Holling type I, II responses, and more general than a simplified form of the Holling type III response before. The method used here is an improvement on the original method introduced in the work of \textit{S. R. Dunbar} [J. Math. Biol. 17, 11--32 (1983; Zbl 0509.92024); SIAM J. Appl. Math. 46, 1057--1078 (1986; Zbl 0617.92020)]. A bounded Ważewski set is used in this work. The existence of traveling wave solutions connecting two equilibria is established by using the original Ważewski's theorem which is much simpler than the extended version in Dunbar's work.

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