Special Session 84: 

Spreading with two speeds and mass segregation in a diffusive competition system with free boundaries

Chang-Hong Wu
National University of Tainan
Taiwan
Co-Author(s):    Yihong Du
Abstract:
In this talk, we focus on the spreading behavior of two invasive species modeled by a Lotka-Volterra diffusive competition system with two free boundaries in a spherically symmetric setting. We show that, for the weak-strong competition case, under suitable assumptions, both species in the system can successfully spread into new environment, but their spreading speeds are different, and their population masses tend to segregate. This is a joint work with Yihong Du (University of New England).