Global dynamics for a class of reaction-diffusion equations with distributed delay and neumann condition

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a class of non-monotone reaction-diffusion equations with distributed delay and a homogenous Neumann boundary condition. The main concern is the global attractivity of the unique positive steady state. To achieve this, we use an argument based on sub and super-solutions combined with the fluctuation method. We also give a condition under which the exponential stability of the positive steady state is reached. As particular examples, we apply our results to the diffusive Nicholson blowfly equation and the diffusive Mackey-Glass equation with distributed delay. We obtain some new results on exponential stability of the positive steady state for these models.