Spatially discrete reaction–diffusion equations with discontinuous hysteresis

We address the question: Why may reaction–diffusion equations with hysteretic nonlinearities become ill-posed and how to amend this? To do so, we discretize the spatial variable and obtain a lattice dynamical system with a hysteretic nonlinearity. We analyze a new mechanism that leads to appearance of a spatio-temporal pattern called rattling: the solution exhibits a propagation phenomenon different from the classical traveling wave, while the hysteretic nonlinearity, loosely speaking, takes a different value at every second spatial point, independently of the grid size. Such a dynamics indicates how one should redefine hysteresis to make the continuous problem well-posed and how the solution will then behave. In the present paper, we develop main tools for the analysis of the spatially discrete model and apply them to a prototype case. In particular, we prove that the propagation velocity is of order at−1/2 as t→∞ and explicitly find the rate a. © 2017 Elsevier Masson SAS

Авторы
Gurevich P. 1, 2 , Tikhomirov S.3
Издательство
Elsevier Masson SAS
Номер выпуска
4
Язык
Английский
Страницы
1041-1077
Статус
Опубликовано
Том
35
Год
2018
Организации
  • 1 Free University of Berlin, Germany
  • 2 RUDN University, Russian Federation
  • 3 Saint-Petersburg State Univeristy, Russian Federation
Ключевые слова
Hysteresis; Lattice dynamics; Pattern formation; Rattling; Reaction–diffusion equations; Spatial discretisation
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