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The Fisher-KPP problem with doubly nonlinear "fast" diffusion

Analysis of PDEs 2016-07-06 v1

Abstract

The famous Fisher-KPP reaction diffusion model combines linear diffusion with the typical Fisher-KPP reaction term, and appears in a number of relevant applications. It is remarkable as a mathematical model since, in the case of linear diffusion, it possesses a family of travelling waves that describe the asymptotic behaviour of a wide class solutions 0u(x,t)10\leq u(x,t)\leq 1 of the problem posed in the real line. The existence of propagation wave with finite speed has been confirmed in the cases of "slow" and "pseudo-linear" doubly nonlinear diffusion too, see arXiv:1601.05718. We investigate here the corresponding theory with "fast" doubly nonlinear diffusion and we find that general solutions show a non-TW asymptotic behaviour, and exponential propagation in space for large times. Finally, we prove precise bounds for the level sets of general solutions, even when we work in with spacial dimension N1N \geq 1. In particular, we show that location of the level sets is approximately linear for large times, when we take spatial logarithmic scale, finding a strong departure from the linear case, in which appears the famous Bramson logarithmic correction.

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@article{arxiv.1607.01338,
  title  = {The Fisher-KPP problem with doubly nonlinear "fast" diffusion},
  author = {Alessandro Audrito and Juan Luis Vazquez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01338},
  year   = {2016}
}

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42 pages, 6 figures

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