Numerical experiments suggest interesting properties in the several fields of fluid dynamics, plasma physics and population dynamics. Among such properties, we may observe the interesting phenomena; that is, the repeated appearance and disappearance phenomena of the region penetrated by the fluid in the flow through a porous media with absorption. The model equation in two dimensional space is written in the form of the initial-boundary value problem for a nonlinear diffusion equation with the effect...

In this paper, we consider the Swift–Hohenberg equation with perturbed boundary conditions. We do not a priori know the eigenfunctions for the linearized problem since the $\mathrm{SO}\left(2\right)$ symmetry of the problem is broken by perturbation. We show that how the neutral stability curves change and, as a result, how the bifurcation diagrams change by the perturbation of the boundary conditions.

While alternans in a single cardiac cell appears through a simple period-doubling bifurcation, in extended tissue the exact nature of the bifurcation is unclear. In particular, the phase of alternans can exhibit wave-like spatial dependence, either stationary or travelling, which is known as discordant alternans. We study these phenomena in simple cardiac models through a modulation equation proposed by Echebarria-Karma. As shown in our previous paper, the zero solution of their equation may lose...

We consider parameter-dependent cocycles generated by nonautonomous difference equations. One of them is a discrete-time cardiac conduction model. For this system with a control variable a cocycle formulation is presented. We state a theorem about upper Hausdorff dimension estimates for cocycle attractors which includes some regulating function. We also consider the existence of invariant measures for cocycle systems using some elements of Perron-Frobenius theory and discuss the bifurcation of parameter-dependent...

An abstract semilinear parabolic equation in a Banach space X is considered. Under general assumptions on nonlinearity this problem is shown to generate a bounded dissipative semigroup on $X^{\alpha }$. This semigroup possesses an $(X^{\alpha }-Z)$-global attractor that is closed, bounded, invariant in $X^{\alpha }$, and attracts bounded subsets of $X^{\alpha }$ in a ’weaker’ topology of an auxiliary Banach space Z. The abstract approach is finally applied to the scalar parabolic equation in Rⁿ and to the partly dissipative system.

This paper is devoted to the study of traveling waves for monotone evolution systems of bistable type. In an abstract setting, we establish the existence of traveling waves for discrete and continuous-time monotone semiflows in homogeneous and periodic habitats. The results are then extended to monotone semiflows with weak compactness. We also apply the theory to four classes of evolution systems.

This paper provides blow up results of Fujita type for a reaction-diffusion system of 3 equations in the form $uₜ-\Delta \left(a_{11}u\right)=h(t,x){\left|v\right|}^p$, $vₜ-\Delta \left(a_{21}u\right)-\Delta \left(a_{22}v\right)=k(t,x){\left|w\right|}^q$, $wₜ-\Delta \left(a_{31}u\right)-\Delta \left(a_{32}v\right)-\Delta \left(a_{33}w\right)=l(t,x){\left|u\right|}^r$, for $x\in {ℝ}^N$, t > 0, p > 0, q > 0, r > 0, $a_{ij}=a_{ij}(t,x,u,v)$, under initial conditions u(0,x) = u₀(x), v(0,x) = v₀(x), w(0,x) = w₀(x) for $x\in {ℝ}^N$, where u₀, v₀, w₀ are nonnegative, continuous and bounded functions. Subject to conditions on dependence on the parameters p, q, r, N and the growth of the functions h, k, l at infinity, we prove finite blow up time for every solution of the above system,...

We prove Fujita-type global existence and nonexistence theorems for a system of m equations (m > 1) with different diffusion coefficients, i.e. $u_{it}-d_i\Delta u_i={\prod }_{k=1}^m{u}_k^{p_k^i},i=1,...,m,x\in {ℝ}^N,t>0,$ with nonnegative, bounded, continuous initial values and $p_k^i\ge 0$, $i,k=1,...,m$, $d_i>0$, $i=1,...,m$. For solutions which blow up at $t=T<\le \infty$, we derive the following bounds on the blow up rate: $u_i(x,t)\le C{(T-t)}^{-{\alpha }_i}$ with C > 0 and ${\alpha }_i$ defined in terms of $p_k^i$.