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May  2016, 21(3): 815-836. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2016.21.815

On existence of wavefront solutions in mixed monotone reaction-diffusion systems

Wei Feng 1, , Weihua Ruan 2, and  Xin Lu 3,

1. 

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNC Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403
2. 

Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN 46323, United States
3. 

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina in Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403

Received  July 2015 Revised  September 2015 Published  January 2016

In this article, we give an existence-comparison theorem for wavefront solutions in a general class of reaction-diffusion systems. With mixed quasi-monotonicity and Lipschitz condition on the set bounded by coupled upper-lower solutions, the existence of wavefront solution is proven by applying the Schauder Fixed Point Theorem on a compact invariant set. Our main result is then applied to well-known examples: a ratio-dependent predator-prey model, a three-species food chain model of Lotka-Volterra type and a three-species competition model of Lotka-Volterra type. For each model, we establish conditions on the ecological parameters for the presence of wavefront solutions flowing towards the coexistent states through suitably constructed upper and lower solutions. Numerical simulations on those models are also demonstrated to illustrate our theoretical results.
Keywords: mixed monotone functions, numerical simulations., coexistence in ecological models, Reaction-diffusion systems, existence of wavefront solutions.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K57, 35C07, Secondary: 74H20, 74H15, 93A3.
Citation: Wei Feng, Weihua Ruan, Xin Lu. On existence of wavefront solutions in mixed monotone reaction-diffusion systems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2016, 21 (3) : 815-836. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2016.21.815
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W. Feng and X. Lu, Traveling waves and competitive exclusion in models of resource competition and mating interference, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 424 (2015), 542-562. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.11.027.  Google Scholar

[7]

W. Feng and W. Ruan, Coexistence, Permanence, and stability in a three species competition model, Acta. Math. Appl. Sinica (English Ser.), 12 (1996), 443-446. doi: 10.1007/BF02029074.  Google Scholar

[8]

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[9]

X. Hou and W. Feng, Traveling waves and their stability in a coupled reaction diffusion system, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, 10 (2011), 141-160. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2011.10.141.  Google Scholar

[10]

X. Hou, W. Feng and X. Lu, A mathematical analysis of a pubilc goods games model, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 10 (2009), 2207-2224. doi: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2008.04.005.  Google Scholar

[11]

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J. I. Kanel, On the wave front of a competition-diffusion system in popalation dynamics, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, 65 (2006), 301-320. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2005.05.014.  Google Scholar

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[14]

Y. Kan-on, Note on propagation speed of travelling waves for a weakly coupled parabolic system, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, 44 (2001), 239-246. doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(99)00261-8.  Google Scholar

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Y. Kan-on, Fisher wave fronts for the lotka-volterra competition model with diffusion, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, methods & Applications, 28 (1997), 145-164. doi: 10.1016/0362-546X(95)00142-I.  Google Scholar

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[17]

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G. Lin, W. Li and M. Ma, Traveling wave solutions in delayed reaction diffusio system with applications to multi-species models, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 13 (2010), 393-414. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2010.13.393.  Google Scholar

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X. Liu and P. Weng, Asymptotic spreading of a three dimensional Lotka-Volterra cooperative-competitive system, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 20 (2015), 505-518. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.505.  Google Scholar

[22]

X. Lu, Monotone method and convergence acceleration for finite-difference solutions of parabolic problems with time delays, Numer. Meth. Part. Diff. Eqn.s, 11 (1995), 591-602. doi: 10.1002/num.1690110605.  Google Scholar

[23]

X. Lu and W. Feng, Dynamics and numerical simulations of food-chain populations, Applied Mathematics and Computations, 65 (1994), 335-344. doi: 10.1016/0096-3003(94)90186-4.  Google Scholar

[24]

S. W. Ma, Traveling waves for non-local delayed diffusion equations via auxiliary equations, Journal of Differential Equations, 237 (2007), 259-277. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2007.03.014.  Google Scholar

[25]

C. V. Pao, Nonlinear Parabolic and Elliptic Equations, Plenum Press, New York, 1992.  Google Scholar

[26]

C. V. Pao and X. Lu, Block monotone iterative methods for numerical solutions of nonlinear parabolic equations, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 25 (2003), 164-185. doi: 10.1137/S1064827502409912.  Google Scholar

[27]

D. Sattinger, On the stability of traveling waves of nonlinear parabolic systems, Advances in Mathematics, 22 (1976), 312-355. doi: 10.1016/0001-8708(76)90098-0.  Google Scholar

[28]

M. M. Tang and P. C. Fife, Propagating fronts for competing species equations with diffusion, Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., 73 (1980), 69-77. doi: 10.1007/BF00283257.  Google Scholar

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A. Volpert, V. Volpert and V. Volpert, Traveling Wave Solutions of Parabolic Systems, Transl. Math. Monograhs, 140, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1994.  Google Scholar

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Z.-C. Wang, W.-T. Li and S. Ruan, Existence and Stability of traveling wave fronts in reaction advection diffusion equations with nonlocal delay, Journal of Differential Equations, 238 (2007), 153-200. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2007.03.025.  Google Scholar

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J. Wu and X. Zou, Traveling wave fronts of reaction-diffusion systems with delay, Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, 13 (2001), 651-687, and Erratum to traveling wave fronts of reaction-diffusion systems with delays, Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, 20 (2008), 531-533. doi: 10.1023/A:1016690424892.  Google Scholar

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D. Xu and X. Q. Zhao, Bistable waves in an epidemic model, Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, 16 (2004), 679-707, and Erratum, Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, 17 (2005), 219-247. doi: 10.1007/s10884-004-6113-z.  Google Scholar

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