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Title Travelling Waves for Fully Discretized Bistable Reaction-Diffusion Problems

Name Hermen Jan Hupkes
Country Netherlands
Email hjhupkes@hotmail.com
Co-Author(s) E. S. Van Vleck
Submit Time 2014-02-28 10:40:27
Session
Special Session 5: Differential delay equations
Contents
We study various temporal and spatial discretization methods for bistable reaction-diffusion problems. The main focus is on the functional differential operators that arise after linearizing around travelling waves in the spatially discrete problem and studying how the subsequent discretization of time affects the spectral properties of these operators. This represents a highly singular perturbation that we attempt to understand via a weak-limit method based on the pioneering work of Bates, Chen and Chmaj (2003). Once this perturbation is understood, one can study the existence and (non)-uniqueness of waves in the fully discretized reaction-diffusion system.