Abstract In this paper we consider an adaptive spatial discretization scheme for the Nagumo PDE. The scheme is a commonly used spatial mesh adaptation method based on equidistributing the arclength of the solution under consideration. We assume that this equidistribution is strictly enforced, which leads to the non-local problem with infinite range interactions that we derived in Hupkes and Van Vleck (J Dyn Differ Equ 28:955, 2016). For small spatial grid-sizes, we establish some useful Fredholm properties for the operator that arises after linearizing our system around the travelling wave solutions to the original Nagumo PDE. In particular, we perform a singular perturbation argument to lift these properties from the natural limiting operator. This limiting operator is a spatially stretched and twisted version of the standard second order differential operator that is associated to the PDE waves.
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Travelling Waves for Adaptive Grid Discretizations of Reaction Diffusion Systems III: Nonlinear Theory
In this paper we consider a spatial discretization scheme with an adaptive grid for the Nagumo PDE and establish the existence of travelling waves. In particular, we consider the time dependent spatial mesh adaptation method that aims to equidistribute the arclength of the solution under consideration. We assume that this equidistribution is strictly enforced, which leads to the non-local problem with infinite range interactions that we derived in Hupkes and Van Vleck (J Dyn Differ Eqn, 2021). Using the Fredholm theory developed in Hupkes and Van Vleck (J Dyn Differ Eqn, 2021) we setup a fixed point procedure that enables the travelling PDE waves to be lifted to our spatially discrete setting.
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- 1714195
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10474440
- Publisher / Repository:
- Springer Science + Business Media
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 4
- ISSN:
- 1040-7294
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Size: p. 2743-2811
- Size(s):
- p. 2743-2811
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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