How does the spreading speed associated with the Fisher-KPP equation depend on random stationary diffusion and reaction terms?
Abstract
We consider one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations of Fisher-KPP type with random stationary ergodic coefficients. A classical result of Freidlin and Gartner [16] yields that the solutions of the initial value problems associated with compactly supported initial data admit a linear spreading speed almost surely. We use in this paper a new characterization of this spreading speed recently proved in [8] in order to investigate the dependence of this speed with respect to the heterogeneity of the diffusion and reaction terms. We prove in particular that adding a reaction term with null average or rescaling the coefficients by the change of variables x x/L, with L \textgreater{} 1, speeds up the propagation. From a modelling point of view, these results mean that adding some heterogeneity in the medium gives a higher invasion speed, while fragmentation of the medium slows down the invasion.
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@article{arxiv.1609.01441,
title = {How does the spreading speed associated with the Fisher-KPP equation depend on random stationary diffusion and reaction terms?},
author = {Grégoire Nadin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01441},
year = {2016}
}