Pulsating travelling fronts: Asymptotics and homogenization regimes

Mohammad El Smaily (1)

1 LATP - Laboratoire d'Analyse, Topologie, Probabilités

This paper is concerned with some nonlinear propagation phenomena for reaction-advection-diffusion equations with Kolmogrov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) type nonlinearities in general periodic domains or in infinite cylinders with oscillating boundaries. Having a variational formula for the minimal speed of propagation involving eigenvalue problems ( proved in Berestycki, Hamel and Nadirashvili \cite{BHN1}), we consider the minimal speed of propagation as a function of diffusion factors, reaction factors and periodicity parameters. There we study the limits, the asymptotic behaviors and the variations of the considered functions with respect to these parameters. The last section treats a homogenization problem as an application of the results in the previous sections in order to find the limit of the minimal speed when the periodicity cell is very small.

Mots clés: homogenization regimes; speed of propagation; reaction diffusion equation; pulsating fronts; front propagtion in periodic excitable media

Domaines: Equations aux dérivées partielles [math.AP]

Mohammad El Smaily. Pulsating travelling fronts: Asymptotics and homogenization regimes. European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2008, 19 (04), pp.393-434. ⟨hal-00172332v5⟩