Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 3:30 PM in MC 204
Asymptotic Behavior of a Reaction-Diffusion Model with a Quiescent Stage
Kate Zhang
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New Brunswick at Fredericton
Abstract:
This work is devoted to the investigation of the asymptotic behavior for a reaction-diffusion model with a quiescent stage. We first establish the existence of asymptotic speed of spread and show that it coincides with the minimal wave speed for monotone traveling waves. Then we obtain a threshold result on the global attractivity of either zero or positive steady state in the case where the spatial domain is bounded.