Two-Dimensional Curved Fronts in a Periodic Shear Flow

TL;DR

This paper investigates curved traveling fronts in reaction-diffusion equations with periodic shear flow, establishing a minimal propagation speed and analyzing how it depends on flow and reaction parameters.

Contribution

It introduces the existence of a minimal speed for curved fronts in a periodic shear flow and characterizes their monotonicity and asymptotic behaviors.

Findings

Existence of a minimal speed c* for curved fronts.

Curved fronts are decreasing in the propagation direction.

Asymptotic behavior of speed with respect to flow, diffusion, and reaction coefficients.

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study of travelling fronts of reaction-diffusion equations with periodic advection in the whole plane $\mathbb R^2$. We are interested in curved fronts satisfying some "conical" conditions at infinity. We prove that there is a minimal speed $c^*$ such that curved fronts with speed $c$ exist if and only if $c\geq c^*$. Moreover, we show that such curved fronts are decreasing in the direction of propagation, that is they are increasing in time. We also give some results about the asymptotic behaviors of the speed with respect to the advection, diffusion and reaction coefficients.