Bistable traveling waves around an obstacle
Henri Berestycki, Hiroshi Matano, François Hamel
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Abstract We consider traveling waves for a nonlinear diffusion equation with a bistable or multistable nonlinearity. The goal is to study how a planar traveling front interacts with a compact obstacle that is placed in the middle of the space ℝ N . As a first step, we prove the existence and uniqueness of an entire solution that behaves like a planar wave front approaching from infinity and eventually reaching the obstacle. This causes disturbance on the shape of the front, but we show that the solution will gradually recover its planar wave profile and continue to propagate in the same direction, leaving the obstacle behind. Whether the recovery is uniform in space is shown to depend on the shape of the obstacle. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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