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Analysis of the periodically fragmented environment model: II—biological invasions and pulsating travelling fronts

✍ Scribed by Henri Berestycki; François Hamel; Lionel Roques


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
341 KB
Volume
84
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-7824

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✦ Synopsis


This paper is concerned with propagation phenomena for reaction-diffusion equations of the type:

where A is a given periodic diffusion matrix field, and f is a given nonlinearity which is periodic in the x-variables. This article is the sequel to [H. Berestycki, F. Hamel, L. Roques, Analysis of the periodically fragmented environment model: I-influence of periodic heterogeneous environment on species persistence, Preprint]. The existence of pulsating fronts describing the biological invasion of the uniform 0 state by a heterogeneous state is proved here. A variational characterization of the minimal speed of such pulsating fronts is proved and the dependency of this speed on the heterogeneity of the medium is also analyzed.  2005 Published by Elsevier SAS.

Résumé

Cet article traite de phénomènes de propagation pour des équations de réaction-diffusion du type :