In this paper we study the stability of cylinder front waves and the propagation of solutions of a nonlocal Fisher-type model describing the propagation of a population with nonlocal competition among bounded and continuous phenotypic traits. By applying spectral analysis and separation of variables we prove the spectral and local exponential stability of the cylinder waves with the noncritical speeds in some exponentially weighted spaces. By combining the detailed analysis with the spectral expansion and the special construction of sub-supersolutions, we further prove the uniform boundedness of the solutions and the global asymptotic stability of the cylinder waves for more general nonnegative bounded initial data, and prove that the spreading speeds and the asymptotic behavior of the solutions are determined by the decay rates of the initial data. Our results also extend some classical results on the stability of planar waves for Fisher-KPP equation to the nonlocal Fisher model in multi-dimensional cylinder case.
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