Existence of traveling wave solutions of parabolic–parabolic chemotaxis systems. (August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Salako, Rachidi B.; Shen, Wenxian
• Is Part Of: Nonlinear analysis. Volume 42(2018)
• Page Start: 93
• Page End: 119
• Publication Date: 2018-08
• Subjects: Parabolic–parabolic chemotaxis system -- Logistic source -- Spreading speed -- Traveling wave solution; Nonlinear functional analysis -- Periodicals; Analyse fonctionnelle non linéaire -- Périodiques; Nonlinear functional analysis; Periodicals; 515.7248
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2017.12.004
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1468-1218

Abstract

Abstract: The current paper is devoted to the study of traveling wave solutions of the following parabolic–parabolicchemotaxis system, u t = Δ u − χ ∇ ⋅ ( u ∇ v ) + u ( a − b u ), x ∈ R N τ v t = Δ v − v + u, x ∈ R N, where u ( x, t ) represents the population density of a mobile species and v ( x, t ) represents the population density of a chemoattractant, and χ represents the chemotaxis sensitivity. In an earlier work (Rachidi et al., 2017) by the authors of the current paper, traveling wave solutions of the above chemotaxis system with τ = 0 are studied. It is shown in Rachidi et al. (2017) that for every 0 < χ < b 2, there is c ∗ ( χ ) such that for every c > c ∗ ( χ ) and ξ ∈ S N − 1, the system has a traveling wave solution ( u ( x, t ), v ( x, t ) ) = ( U ( x ⋅ ξ − c t ; τ ), V ( x ⋅ ξ − c t ; τ ) ) with speed c connecting the constant solutions ( a b, a b ) and ( 0, 0 ) . Moreover, lim χ → 0 + c ∗ ( χ ) = 2 a if 0 < a ≤ 1 1 + a if a > 1 . We prove in the current paper that for every τ > 0, there is 0 < χ τ ∗ < b 2 such that for every 0 < χ < χ τ ∗, there exist two positive numbers c ∗ ∗ ( χ, τ ) > c ∗ ( χ, τ ) ≥ 2 a satisfying that for every c ∈ ( c ∗ ( χ, τ ), c ∗ ∗ ( χ, τ ) ) and ξ ∈ S N − 1, the system has a traveling wave solution ( u ( x, t ), v ( x, t ) ) = ( U ( x ⋅ ξ − c t ; τ ), V ( x ⋅ ξ − c t ; τ ) ) with speed c connecting the constant solutions ( a b, a b ) and ( 0, 0 ), and it does not have such traveling wave solutions of speed less than 2 a . Moreover, lim χ → 0 + c ∗ ∗ ( χ, τ ) = ∞, lim χ → 0 + c ∗ ( χ, τ ) = 2 a if 0 < a ≤ 1 + τ a ( 1 − τ ) + 1 + τ a ( 1 − τ ) + + a ( 1 − τ ) + 1 + τ a if a ≥ 1 + τ a ( 1 − τ ) +, and lim x → ∞ U ( x ; τ ) e − μ x = 1, where μ is the only solution of the equation μ + a μ = c in the interval ( 0, min { a, 1 + τ a ( 1 − τ ) + } ) . Furthermore, lim τ → 0 + χ τ ∗ = b 2, lim τ → 0 + c ∗ ( χ ; τ ) = c ∗ ( χ ), lim τ → 0 + c ∗ ∗ ( χ ; τ ) = ∞ .