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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
卷 464, 期 2090, 页码 365-390出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.0198
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wave train; parabolic partial differential equations; multi-annual population cycles; hypergeometric function
Many natural populations undergo multi-year cycles, and field studies have shown that these can be organized into periodic travelling waves (PTWs). Mathematical studies have shown that large-scale landscape obstacles represent a natural mechanism for wave generation. Here, we investigate how the amplitude and wavelength of the selected waves depend on the obstacle size. We firstly consider a large circular obstacle in an infinite domain for a reaction diffusion system of 'lambda omega' type. We use perturbation theory to derive a leading order approximation to the wave generated by the obstacle. This shows the dependence of the wave properties on both parameter values and obstacle size. We find that the limiting values of the amplitude and wavelength are approached algebraically with distance from the obstacle edge, rather than exponentially in the case of a. at boundary. We use our results to predict the properties of waves generated by a large circular obstacle for an oscillatory predator prey system, via a reduction of the predator - prey model to normal form close to Hopf bifurcation. Our predictions compare well with numerical simulations. We also discuss the implications of these results for wave stability and briefly investigate the effects of obstacles with elliptical geometries.
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