Traveling waves for unbalanced bistable equations with density dependent diffusion
Date
2021-09-14
Authors
Drabek, Pavel
Zahradnikova, Michaela
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Texas State University, Department of Mathematics
Abstract
We study the existence and qualitative properties of traveling wave solutions for the unbalanced bistable reaction-diffusion equation with a rather general density dependent diffusion coefficient. In particular, it allows for singularities and/or degenerations as well as discontinuities of the first kind at a finite number of points. The reaction term vanishes at equilibria and it is a continuous, possibly non-Lipschitz function. We prove the existence of a unique speed of propagation and a unique traveling wave profile (up to translation) which is a non-smooth function in general. In the case of the power-type behavior of the diffusion and reaction near equilibria we provide detailed asymptotic analysis of the profile.
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Keywords
Density dependent diffusion, Unbalanced bistable reaction term, Degenerate and singular diffusion, Traveling wave, Degenerate non-Lipschitz reaction
Citation
Drábek, P., & Zahradníková, M. (2021). Traveling waves for unbalanced bistable equations with density dependent diffusion. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2021</i>(76), pp. 1-21.