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Semi-wave and spreading speed for the diffusive competition model with a free boundary

Yihong Du, Mingxin Wang, Maolin Zhou

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Abstract

We determine the asymptotic spreading speed of an invasive species, which invades the territory of a native competitor, governed by a diffusive competition model with a free boundary in a spherically symmetric setting. This free boundary problem was studied recently in, but only rough bounds of the spreading speed were obtained there. We show in this paper that there exists an asymptotic spreading speed, which is determined by a certain traveling wave type system of one space dimension, called a semi-wave. This appears to be the first result that gives the precise asymptotic spreading speed for a two species system with free boundaries.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)253-287
JournalJournal de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees
Volume107
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • Biological Mathematics
  • Partial Differential Equations

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