Hopf bifurcation in a Lotka-Volterra competition-diffusion-advection model with time delay

Abstract

In this paper, we mainly investigate a Lotka-Volterra competition-diffusion-advection system with time delay, where the diffusion and advection rates of two competitors are different. By employing the Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction method, we obtain the existence of steady state solution. A weighted inner product has been introduced to study stability and Hopf bifurcation at the spatially nonhomogeneous steady-state. Our results imply that the infinitesimal generator associated with the linearized system have two pairs of purely imaginary eigenvalues, and time delay can make the spatially nonconstant positive steady state unstable for a reaction-diffusion-advection model. In addition, the bifurcation direction and stability of Hopf bifurcating periodic orbits was obtained by means of the center manifold reduction and the normal form theory.