2024/07/31 by Thomas Giletti, Léo Girardin, Giletti, Thomas +3 · 2 citations
Mathematics · Medicine · #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #Mathematical Biology Tumor Growth #Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2407.21549
openalex created_date 2024/07/31 · openalex publication_date 2024/07/31 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
This paper is concerned with spreading properties of space-time heterogeneous Fisher--KPP equations in one space dimension. We focus on the case of everywhere favorable environment with three different zones, a left half-line with slow or intermediate growth, a central patch with fast growth and a right half-line with slow or intermediate growth. The central patch moves at various speeds. The behavior of the front changes drastically depending on the speed of the central patch. Among other things, intriguing phenomena such as nonlocal pulling and locking may occur, which would make the behavior of the front further complicated. The problem we discuss here is closely related to questions in biomathematical modelling. By considering several special cases, we illustrate the remarkable diversity of possible behaviors. In particular, when the central patch has constant size and constant speed, we provide a complete set of explicit formulas for the spreading speed.