Advances in Dynamical Systems and Applications
  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 1

Travelling Waves in some Reaction-diffusion-aggregation Models

  • Author:
  • Laura Ferracuti, Cristina Marcelli, Francesca Papalini
  • Total Page Count: 15
  • Page Number: 19 to 33

Technical University of Marche, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Via Brecce Bianche, Ancona, 60131, Italy.

AMS Subject Classifications: Primary: 35K57, 92D25; Secondary: 34B40, 34B16.

Abstract

We deal with the reaction-diffusion-aggregation equation

where f is a monostable (i.e., Fisher-type) nonlinear reaction term and D(v) is a changing-sign nonlinear term, modeling repulsive-attractive population dynamic. We prove the existence of travelling fronts having speed varying in a half-line and provide an estimate for the minimal speed c*. We also investigate the possible existence of fronts reaching the equilibria at fnite values.

Keywords

Diffusion-aggregation models, travelling wave solutions, speed of propagation, singular boundary value problems