scholarly journals Global Stability of Traveling Waves for a More General Nonlocal Reaction-Diffusion Equation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Rui Yan ◽  
Guirong Liu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the global stability of traveling front solutions with noncritical and critical speeds for a more general nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation with or without delay. Our analysis relies on the technical weighted energy method and Fourier transform. Moreover, we can get the rates of convergence and the effect of time-delay on the decay rates of the solutions. Furthermore, according to the stability results, the uniqueness of the traveling front solutions can be proved. Our results generalize and improve the existing results.

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 491-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. IRON ◽  
M. J. WARD

An asymptotic reduction of the Gierer–Meinhardt activator-inhibitor system in the limit of large inhibitor diffusivity and small activator diffusivity ε leads to a singularly perturbed nonlocal reaction-diffusion equation for the activator concentration. In the limit ε → 0, this nonlocal problem for the activator concentration has localized spike-type solutions. In this limit, we analyze the motion of a spike that is confined to the smooth boundary of a two or three-dimensional domain. By deriving asymptotic differential equations for the spike motion, it is shown that the spike moves towards a local maximum of the curvature in two dimensions and a local maximum of the mean curvature in three dimensions. The motion of a spike on a flat segment of a two-dimensional domain is also analyzed, and this motion is found to be metastable. The critical feature that allows for the slow boundary spike motion is the presence of the nonlocal term in the underlying reaction-diffusion equation.


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