PDE seminar, February 10th 2016
Wednesday 10th EHESS, 190-198 Avenue de France, room 466, 4th floor - 75013 Paris
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Linear spreading speeds from nonlinear resonant interactions
We study spreading speeds resulting from mode interactions in spatially extended systems. Here, we have in mind those systems possessing an homogenous steady state that is unstable with respect to both homogeneous perturbations and perturbations near a fixed nonzero wavelength. The dynamics of these systems is governed by a competition between two unstable modes. For spatially localized perturbations, this competition manifests itself in the formation of traveling fronts that propagate into the unstable state. Our goal is then to determine the speed of these fronts. Our analysis shows that the nonlinear (quadratic) interaction of the two unstable modes can create an anomalous faster spreading speed and we derive a general criterion for the computation of such speeds. Our criterion is applied to several cases: uni-directional and bi-directional coupled amplitude equations, systems of equations where a Swift-Hohenberg equation is coupled to a reaction diffusion equation, and a scalar nonlocal neural field equation. This is joint work with Matt Holzer and Arnd Scheel. |