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Global existence and asymptotic behavior of solutions to a nonlocal Fisher-KPP type problem

Analysis of PDEs 2015-08-04 v1

Abstract

In this work, we consider a nonlocal Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion problem with Neumann boundary condition and nonnegative initial data in a bounded domain in Rn(n1)\mathbb{R}^n (n \ge 1), with reaction term uα(1m(t))u^\alpha(1-m(t)), where m(t)m(t) is the total mass at time tt. When α1\alpha \ge 1 and the initial mass is greater than or equal to one, the problem has a unique nonnegative classical solution. While if the initial mass is less than one, then the problem admits a unique global solution for n=1,2n=1,2 with any 1α<21 \le \alpha <2 or n3n \ge 3 with any 1α<1+2/n1 \le \alpha < 1+2/n. Moreover, the asymptotic convergence to the solution of the heat equation is proved. Finally, some numerical simulations in dimensions n=1,2n=1,2 are exhibited. Especially, for α>2\alpha>2 and the initial mass is less than one, our numerical results show that the solution exists globally in time and the mass tends to one as time goes to infinity.

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@article{arxiv.1508.00063,
  title  = {Global existence and asymptotic behavior of solutions to a nonlocal Fisher-KPP type problem},
  author = {Shen Bian and Li Chen and Evangelos A. Latos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00063},
  year   = {2015}
}