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

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 a...

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Published in:Journal of mathematical analysis and applications 2024-11, Vol.539 (1), p.128481, Article 128481
Main Authors: Drábek, Pavel, Jung, Soyeun, Ko, Eunkyung, Zahradníková, Michaela
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Degenerate and singular density-dependent diffusion
Discontinuous convection
Discontinuous diffusion
Monostable reaction-diffusion-convection equation
Non-Lipschitz reaction
Traveling wave
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0022-247X
1096-0813
DOI:10.1016/j.jmaa.2024.128481