A revisit to the diffusive logistic model with free boundary condition
A revisit to the diffusive logistic model with free boundary condition
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DOI:
10.3934/dcdsb.2016.21.837
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
Wenzhen Gan;Peng Zhou
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作者:
Wenzhen Gan;Peng Zhou
This short paper revisits a free boundary problem which is used to describe the spreading of a new or invasive species. Our main goal is to understand how the underlying long-time dynamical behaviors response to the initial data. To this end, we parameterize the initial function as $u_0=\sigma\phi^*$, where $\sigma$ is regarded as a variable parameter and $\phi^*$ is a given function. Our main result suggests that when the diffusion rate is small, the species can persist in the long run (called spreading) for any $\sigma>0$; while if the diffusion rate is large, the species will go to extinction finally (called vanishing) for small $\sigma>0$. Maybe of more interest is that for some intermediate diffusion rates, there appears a sharp threshold value $\sigma^*\in(0, \infty)$ such that vanishing happens provided $0\sigma^*$. This result can be seen as an improvement of Theorem 1.2 in [8].