Existence of traveling wave solutions for diffusive predator–prey type systems

By Cheng-Hsiung Hsu, Chi-ru Yang, Tinghui Yang, Tzi-Sheng Yang. 2012

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Abstract In this work we investigate the existence of traveling wave solutions for a class of diffusive predator–prey type systems whose each nonlinear term can be separated as a product of suitable smooth functions satisfying some monotonic conditions. The profile equations for the above system can be reduced as a four-dimensional ODE system, and the traveling wave solutions which connect two different equilibria or the small amplitude traveling wave train solutions are equivalent to the heteroclinic orbits or small amplitude periodic solutions of the reduced system. Applying the methods of Wazewski Theorem, LaSalleʼs Invariance Principle and Hopf bifurcation theory, we obtain the existence results. Our results can apply to various kinds of ecological models.

Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Geometry and Topology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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