Propagation direction of the bistable travelling wavefront for delayed non-local reaction diffusion equations.

Abstract

For delayed non-local reaction-diffusion equations arising from population biology, selection mechanisms of the speed sign for the bistable travelling wavefront have not been found. In this paper, based on the theory of asymptotic speeds of spread for monotone semiflows, we firstly provide an interval of values of wave speed and a novel general condition for determining the speed sign by applying the comparison principle and the globally asymptotic stability of the bistable travelling wave. Moreover, through constructing novel upper/lower solutions, we give explicit conditions for the speed sign to be positive or negative. The obtained results are efficiently applied to three classical forms of the kernel functions.