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arxiv: 1609.01441 · v1 · pith:YEPX35DPnew · submitted 2016-09-06 · 🧮 math.AP · math.OC

How does the spreading speed associated with the Fisher-KPP equation depend on random stationary diffusion and reaction terms?

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We consider one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations of Fisher-KPP type with random stationary ergodic coefficients. A classical result of Freidlin and Gartner [16] yields that the solutions of the initial value problems associated with compactly supported initial data admit a linear spreading speed almost surely. We use in this paper a new characterization of this spreading speed recently proved in [8] in order to investigate the dependence of this speed with respect to the heterogeneity of the diffusion and reaction terms. We prove in particular that adding a reaction term with null average or rescaling the coefficients by the change of variables x $\rightarrow$ x/L, with L \textgreater{} 1, speeds up the propagation. From a modelling point of view, these results mean that adding some heterogeneity in the medium gives a higher invasion speed, while fragmentation of the medium slows down the invasion.

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