Special Session 97: 

A singular limit of the three-component Lotka-Volterra equations

Harunori Monobe
Okayama University / Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science
Japan
Co-Author(s):    Hirofumi Izuhara, Chang-Hong Wu
Abstract:
Understanding invasion processes is important in invasion ecology. Several mathematical models have been proposed to estimate the spreading speed of species. Therein, the spreading front is usually determined by unspecified level sets of the solution. In this talk, we use the singular limit analysis to study the formation of the spreading front and propose the three-component reaction-diffusion equations to describe the interaction between three species. By singular limit analysis, the models are reduced to Stefan-type problems, which have been used to describe the spreading of species in the literature. We obtain an explicit form of the evolution of spreading front and may provide some biological interpretation and modeling meaning.