Special Session 7: Emergence and Dynamics of Patterns in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Related Fields

Stability of sharp traveling waves for degenerate Burgers-Fisher-KPP equations

Ming Mei
McGill University and Champlain College
Canada
Co-Author(s):    Shanming Ji, Tianyuan Xu, Jingxue Yin
Abstract:
This talk is concerned with the stability of sharp traveling wave for Burgers-Fisher-KPP equations with degenerate diffusion. We show the evolution of free boundary of the solution to Cauchy problem and the convergence to sharp traveling wave with almost exponential decay rates. Here, a key difficulty lies in the intrinsic presence of nonlinear advection effect. After providing an delicate analysis for the relations between the nonlinear advection and the critical wave speed, we develop an equivalent transformation of the evolution estimation of the semi-supported free boundary by analysis the compact supported boundary behavior of the solutions. The new method overcomes the diffculties of the non-integrability of the generalized derivatives of sharp traveling waves near the compacted supported boundary.