Special Session 76: Recent Developments in Nonlinear and Nonlocal Evolution Equations

Traveling waves for monostable reaction-diffusion-convection equations with discontinuous density-dependent coefficients

SOYEUN JUNG
Kongju National University
Korea
Co-Author(s):    Pavel Dr\`{a}bek, Eunkyung Ko, Michaela Zahradn\`{i}kov\`{a}
Abstract:
In this talk we consider wave propagation in a class of scalar reaction-diffusion-convection equations with $p$-Laplacian-type diffusion and monostable reaction. We introduce a new concept of a non-smooth traveling wave profile, which allows us to treat discontinuous diffusion with possible degenerations and singularities at 0 and 1, as well as only piecewise continuous convective velocity. Our approach is based on comparison arguments for an equivalent non-Lipschitz first-order ODE. We formulate sufficient conditions for the existence and non-existence of these generalized solutions and discuss how the convective velocity affects the minimal wave speed compared to the problem without convection.