scholarly journals Travelling Waves of an n-Species Food Chain Model with Spatial Diffusion and Time Delays

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Fei Hu ◽  
Yuyin Xu ◽  
Z. Wang ◽  
Wei Ding
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Time Delays ◽  
Travelling Waves ◽  
Travelling Wave ◽  
Spatial Diffusion ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Travelling Wave Solutions ◽  
Wave Solutions ◽  
Food Chain Model

We investigate an n-species food chain model with spatial diffusion and time delays. By using Schauder’s fixed point theorem, we obtain the result about the existence of the travelling wave solutions of the food chain model with reaction term satisfying the partial quasimonotonicity conditions.

DIFFUSIVE INSTABILITY AND TRAVELING WAVES IN A MANGROVE ECOSYSTEM FOOD-CHAIN MODEL WITH DELAYED DETRITUS RECYCLING

2010 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 225-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. MUKHOPADHYAY ◽  
ASHOKE BERA ◽  
R. BHATTACHARYYA
Keyword(s):  
Traveling Waves ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Homogeneous System ◽  
Mangrove Ecosystem ◽  
Travelling Wave ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Travelling Wave Solutions ◽  
Interaction Rate ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Food Chain Model

In this paper, a food-chain model in a mangrove ecosystem with detritus recycling is analyzed. From the stability analysis of the delayed homogeneous system, an interval for the parameter representing detritus-detritivores interaction rate is obtained that imparts stability to the system around the coexistent state. Next, we have studied the model in a nonhomogeneous environment. The analysis revealed the existence of a subinterval of the above mentioned interval such that when the above interaction-rate lies within this interval, the system will undergo diffusion driven instability. Finally, we show the existence of travelling wave solutions for the said ecosystem. Numerical simulations are carried out to augment analytical results.

TRAVELING WAVE SOLUTIONS IN A THREE-SPECIES FOOD-CHAIN MODEL WITH DIFFUSION AND DELAYS

2012 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 1250002 ◽  
Author(s):  
YANKE DU ◽  
RUI XU
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Traveling Wave ◽  
Time Delays ◽  
Traveling Wave Solutions ◽  
Iteration Scheme ◽  
Traveling Wave Solution ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Wave Solutions ◽  
Food Chain Model

This paper deals with the existence of traveling wave solutions in a three-species food-chain model with spatial diffusion and time delays due to gestation and negative feedback. By using a cross iteration scheme and Schauder's fixed point theorem, we reduce the existence of traveling wave solutions to the existence of a pair of upper-lower solutions. By constructing a pair of upper-lower solutions, we derive the existence of a traveling wave solution connecting the trivial steady state and the positive steady state. Numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the main results. In particular, our results extend and improve some known results.

Nonlinear travelling internal waves with piecewise-linear shear profiles

2018 ◽  
Vol 856 ◽  
pp. 984-1013 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. L. Oliveras ◽  
C. W. Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Piecewise Linear ◽  
Travelling Waves ◽  
Tangential Velocity ◽  
Travelling Wave ◽  
Numerical Continuation ◽  
Travelling Wave Solutions ◽  
Water Wave Problem ◽  
Two Fluids ◽  
Wave Solutions ◽  
Linear Shear

In this work, we study the nonlinear travelling waves in density stratified fluids with piecewise-linear shear currents. Beginning with the formulation of the water-wave problem due to Ablowitz et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 562, 2006, pp. 313–343), we extend the work of Ashton & Fokas (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 689, 2011, pp. 129–148) and Haut & Ablowitz (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 631, 2009, pp. 375–396) to examine the interface between two fluids of differing densities and varying linear shear. We derive a systems of equations depending only on variables at the interface, and numerically solve for periodic travelling wave solutions using numerical continuation. Here, we consider only branches which bifurcate from solutions where there is no slip in the tangential velocity at the interface for the trivial flow. The spectral stability of these solutions is then determined using a numerical Fourier–Floquet technique. We find that the strength of the linear shear in each fluid impacts the stability of the corresponding travelling wave solutions. Specifically, opposing shears may amplify or suppress instabilities.

scholarly journals Nonuniform Continuity of the Osmosis K(2, 2) Equation

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Aiyong Chen ◽  
Yong Ding ◽  
Wentao Huang
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Small Amplitude ◽  
Travelling Waves ◽  
Travelling Wave ◽  
Qualitative Theory ◽  
Travelling Wave Solutions ◽  
Solution Map ◽  
Wave Solutions ◽  
Periodic Travelling Wave ◽  
Uniformly Continuous

The qualitative theory of differential equations is applied to the osmosis K(2, 2) equation. The parametric conditions of existence of the smooth periodic travelling wave solutions are given. We show that the solution map is not uniformly continuous by using the theory of Himonas and Misiolek. The proof relies on a construction of smooth periodic travelling waves with small amplitude.

scholarly journals FKPP equation with impulses on unbounded domain

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valaire Yatat ◽  
Yves Dumont
Keyword(s):  
Travelling Waves ◽  
Reaction Diffusion ◽  
Bare Soil ◽  
Travelling Wave ◽  
Reaction Diffusion Equations ◽  
Spreading Speed ◽  
Systems Dynamics ◽  
Travelling Wave Solutions ◽  
Minimal Speed ◽  
Wave Solutions

This paper deals with the problem of travelling wave solutions in a scalar impulsive FKPP-like equation. It is a first step of a more general study that aims to address existence of travelling wave solutions for systems of impulsive reaction-diffusion equations that model ecological systems dynamics such as fire-prone savannas. Using results on scalar recursion equations, we show existence of populated vs. extinction travelling waves invasion and compute an explicit expression of their spreading speed (characterized as the minimal speed of such travelling waves). In particular, we find that the spreading speed explicitly depends on the time between two successive impulses. In addition, we carry out a comparison with the case of time-continuous events. We also show that depending on the time between two successive impulses, the spreading speed with pulse events could be lower, equal or greater than the spreading speed in the case of time-continuous events. Finally, we apply our results to a model of fire-prone grasslands and show that pulse fires event may slow down the grassland vs. bare soil invasion speed.

scholarly journals Periodic Travelling Wave Solutions of Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Dirk Hennig
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Fixed Point Problem ◽  
Travelling Wave ◽  
Point Problem ◽  
Travelling Wave Solutions ◽  
Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation ◽  
Nonlinear Schrödinger ◽  
Wave Solutions ◽  
Periodic Travelling Wave ◽  
Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations

The existence of nonzero periodic travelling wave solutions for a general discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation (DNLS) on one-dimensional lattices is proved. The DNLS features a general nonlinear term and variable range of interactions going beyond the usual nearest-neighbour interaction. The problem of the existence of travelling wave solutions is converted into a fixed point problem for an operator on some appropriate function space which is solved by means of Schauder’s Fixed Point Theorem.

scholarly journals Travelling Waves of a Diffusive Epidemic Model with Latency and Relapse

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Zhiping Wang ◽  
Rui Xu
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Fixed Point Theorem ◽  
Epidemic Model ◽  
Wave Solution ◽  
Local Stability ◽  
Travelling Waves ◽  
Upper And Lower Solutions ◽  
Travelling Wave ◽  
Spatial Diffusion ◽  
Travelling Wave Solution

An SEIR epidemic model with relapse and spatial diffusion is studied. By analyzing the corresponding characteristic equations, the local stability of each of the feasible steady states to this model is discussed. The existence of a travelling wave solution is established by using the technique of upper and lower solutions and Schauder's fixed point theorem. Numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the main results.

Travelling waves for a reaction–diffusion system in population dynamics and epidemiology

2005 ◽  
Vol 135 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shangbing Ai ◽  
Wenzhang Huang
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Travelling Waves ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Diffusion Constant ◽  
Reaction Diffusion ◽  
Travelling Wave ◽  
Reaction Diffusion Equations ◽  
Dimensional System ◽  
Travelling Wave Solutions ◽  
Wave Solutions

The existence and uniqueness of travelling-wave solutions is investigated for a system of two reaction–diffusion equations where one diffusion constant vanishes. The system arises in population dynamics and epidemiology. Travelling-wave solutions satisfy a three-dimensional system about (u, u′, ν), whose equilibria lie on the u-axis. Our main result shows that, given any wave speed c > 0, the unstable manifold at any point (a, 0, 0) on the u-axis, where a ∈ (0, γ) and γ is a positive number, provides a travelling-wave solution connecting another point (b, 0, 0) on the u-axis, where b:= b(a) ∈ (γ, ∞), and furthermore, b(·): (0, γ) → (γ, ∞) is continuous and bijective

Viscous film flow coating the interior of a vertical tube. Part 1. Gravity-driven flow

2014 ◽  
Vol 745 ◽  
pp. 682-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Camassa ◽  
H. Reed Ogrosky ◽  
Jeffrey Olander
Keyword(s):  
Time Evolution ◽  
Film Flow ◽  
Travelling Waves ◽  
Travelling Wave ◽  
Basic Solution ◽  
Travelling Wave Solutions ◽  
Liquid Plug ◽  
Wave Solutions ◽  
Gravity Driven ◽  
Gravity Driven Flow

AbstractThe gravity-driven flow of a viscous liquid film coating the inside of a tube is studied both theoretically and experimentally. As the film moves downward, small perturbations to the free surface grow due to surface tension effects and can form liquid plugs. A first-principles strongly nonlinear model based on long-wave asymptotics is developed to provide simplified governing equations for the motion of the film flow. Linear stability analysis on the basic solution of the model predicts the speed and wavelength of the most unstable mode, and whether the film is convectively or absolutely unstable. These results are found to be in remarkable agreement with the experiments. The model is also solved numerically to follow the time evolution of instabilities. For relatively thin films, these instabilities saturate as a series of small-amplitude travelling waves, while thicker films lead to solutions whose amplitude becomes large enough for the liquid surface to approach the centre of the tube in finite time, suggesting liquid plug formation. Next, the model’s periodic travelling wave solutions are determined by a continuation algorithm using the results from the time evolution code as initial seed. It is found that bifurcation branches for these solutions exist, and the critical turning points where branches merge determine film mean thicknesses beyond which no travelling wave solutions exist. These critical thickness values are in good agreement with those for liquid plug formations determined experimentally and numerically by the time-evolution code.

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