We present a nonlinear predator-prey system consisting of a nonlocal conservation law for predators coupled with a parabolic equation for prey. The drift term in the predators' equation is a nonlocal function of the prey density, so that the movement of the predators can be directed towards regions with high prey density. Moreover, Lotka-Volterra type right hand sides describe the feeding. A theorem ensuring existence, uniqueness, continuous dependence of weak solutions, and various stability estimates is proved, in any space dimension. Numerical integrations show a few qualitative features of the solutions.
Colombo, R., Rossi, E. (2015). Hyperbolic predators vs. parabolic prey. COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, 13(2), 369-400 [10.4310/CMS.2015.v13.n2.a6].
Hyperbolic predators vs. parabolic prey
ROSSI, ELENAUltimo
2015
Abstract
We present a nonlinear predator-prey system consisting of a nonlocal conservation law for predators coupled with a parabolic equation for prey. The drift term in the predators' equation is a nonlocal function of the prey density, so that the movement of the predators can be directed towards regions with high prey density. Moreover, Lotka-Volterra type right hand sides describe the feeding. A theorem ensuring existence, uniqueness, continuous dependence of weak solutions, and various stability estimates is proved, in any space dimension. Numerical integrations show a few qualitative features of the solutions.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.