A front-fixing numerical method for a free boundary nonlinear diffusion logistic population model

[EN] The spatial temporal spreading of a new invasive species in a habitat has interest in ecology and is modeled by a moving boundary diffusion logistic partial differential problem, where the moving boundary represents the unknown expanding front of the species. In this paper a front-fixing approa...

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Authors: Piqueras-García, Miguel Ángel, Company Rossi, Rafael|||0000-0001-5217-1889, Jódar Sánchez, Lucas Antonio|||0000-0002-9672-6249
Format: article
Publication Date:2017
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/105531
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/105531
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Diffusive logistic population model
Moving boundary
Stefan condition
Finite difference
Numerical analysis
Computing simulation
MATEMATICA APLICADA
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Summary:[EN] The spatial temporal spreading of a new invasive species in a habitat has interest in ecology and is modeled by a moving boundary diffusion logistic partial differential problem, where the moving boundary represents the unknown expanding front of the species. In this paper a front-fixing approach is applied in order to transform the original moving boundary problem into a fixed boundary one. A finite difference method preserving qualitative properties of the theoretical solution is proposed. Results are illustrated with numerical experiments.