This paper is concerned with traveling wave solutions to a nonlocal dispersal epide- mic model. Combining the upper and lower solutions and monotone iteration method, we establish the existence of nondecreasing traveling wave fronts for the speed being larger than the critical one. Furthermore, by the approximation method, the existence of traveling wave fronts for the critical speed is established as well. Finally, we discuss the nonexistence of traveling wave fronts for the speed being smaller than critical one by Laplace transform.
This paper is concerned with the multidimensional asymptotic stability of V-shaped traveling fronts in the Allen-Cahn equation under spatial decaying initial values. We first show that V-shaped traveling fronts are asymptotically stable under the perturbations that decay at infinity. Then we further show that there exists a solution that oscillates permanently between two V-shaped traveling fronts, which indicates that V-shaped traveling fronts are not always asymptotically stable under general bounded perturbations. Our main technique is the supersolutions and subsolutions method coupled with the comparison principle.
In the one-dimensional space, traveling wave solutions of parabolic differential equations have been widely studied and well characterized. Recently, the mathematical study on higher-dimensional traveling fronts has attracted a lot of attention and many new types of nonplanar traveling waves have been observed for scalar reaction-diffusion equations with various nonlinearities. In this paper, by using the comparison argument and constructing appropriate super- and subsolutions, we study the existence, uniqueness and stability of three- dimensional traveling fronts of pyramidal shape for monotone bistable systems of reaction-diffusion equations in R3. The pyramidal traveling fronts are characterized as either a combination of planar traveling fronts on the lateral surfaces or a combination of two-dimensional V-form waves on the edges of the pyramid. In particular, our results are applicable to some important models in biology, such as Lotk,u-Volterra competition-diffusion systems with or without spatio-temporal delays, and reaction-diffusion systems of multiple obligate mutualists.
