Traveling waves for monostable reaction-diffusion-convection equations with discontinuous density-dependent coefficients

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Autori principali: Drábek, Pavel, Jung, Soyeun, Ko, Eunkyung, Zahradníková, Michaela
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author Drábek, Pavel
Jung, Soyeun
Ko, Eunkyung
Zahradníková, Michaela
author_facet Drábek, Pavel
Jung, Soyeun
Ko, Eunkyung
Zahradníková, Michaela
contents This paper concerns wave propagation in a class of scalar reaction-diffusion-convection equations with $p$-Laplacian-type diffusion and monostable reaction. We introduce a new concept of a non-smooth traveling wave profile, which allows us to treat discontinuous diffusion with possible degenerations and singularities at 0 and 1, as well as only piecewise continuous convective velocity. Our approach is based on comparison arguments for an equivalent non-Lipschitz first-order ODE. We formulate sufficient conditions for the existence and non-existence of these generalized solutions and discuss how the convective velocity affects the minimal wave speed compared to the problem without convection. We also provide brief asymptotic analysis of the profiles, for which we need to assume power-type behavior of the diffusion and reaction terms.
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spellingShingle Traveling waves for monostable reaction-diffusion-convection equations with discontinuous density-dependent coefficients
Drábek, Pavel
Jung, Soyeun
Ko, Eunkyung
Zahradníková, Michaela
Analysis of PDEs
This paper concerns wave propagation in a class of scalar reaction-diffusion-convection equations with $p$-Laplacian-type diffusion and monostable reaction. We introduce a new concept of a non-smooth traveling wave profile, which allows us to treat discontinuous diffusion with possible degenerations and singularities at 0 and 1, as well as only piecewise continuous convective velocity. Our approach is based on comparison arguments for an equivalent non-Lipschitz first-order ODE. We formulate sufficient conditions for the existence and non-existence of these generalized solutions and discuss how the convective velocity affects the minimal wave speed compared to the problem without convection. We also provide brief asymptotic analysis of the profiles, for which we need to assume power-type behavior of the diffusion and reaction terms.
title Traveling waves for monostable reaction-diffusion-convection equations with discontinuous density-dependent coefficients
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12869