# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

## Solution of contrast structure type for a reaction-diffusion equation with discontinuous reactive term

 1 School of Mathematical Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200000, P. R. China 2 School of Mathematical Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Practice, Shanghai 200000, P. R. China

* Corresponding author: Mingkang Ni

Received  June 2019 Revised  October 2019 Published  April 2020

Fund Project: The second author is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11871217) and the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (No. 18dz2271000)

In this paper, we consider the Dirichlet boundary value problem for a singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equation with discontinuous reactive term. We use the asymptotic analysis to construct the formal asymptotic approximation of the solution with internal and boundary layers. The internal layer is located in the vicinity of a curve of the discontinuous reactive term. By using sufficiently precise lower and upper solutions, we prove the existence of a periodic solution and estimate the accuracy of its asymptotic approximation.

Citation: Xiao Wu, Mingkang Ni. Solution of contrast structure type for a reaction-diffusion equation with discontinuous reactive term. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020341
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##### References:
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K. Ni, Internal layers in the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation with a discontinuous reactive term, Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 55 (2015), 2001-2007.  doi: 10.1134/S096554251512012X.  Google Scholar [14] N. N. Nefedov, The method of differential inequalities for some singularly perturbed partial differential equations, Differential Equations, 31 (1995), 668-671.   Google Scholar [15] N. N. Nefedov and M. A. Davydova, Contrast structures in multidimensional singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion-advection problems, Differential Equations, 48 (2012), 745-755.  doi: 10.1134/S0012266112050138.  Google Scholar [16] N. N. Nefedov and M. A. Davydova, Contrast structures in singularly perturbed quasilinear reaction-diffusion-advection equations, Differential Equations, 49 (2013), 688-706.  doi: 10.1134/S0012266113060049.  Google Scholar [17] N. N. 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Pao, Periodic solutions of parabolic systems with nonlinear boundary conditions, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 234 (1999), 695-716.  doi: 10.1006/jmaa.1999.6412.  Google Scholar [21] C. V. Pao, Nonlinear Parabolic and Elliptic Equations, Plenum Press, New York, 1992.   Google Scholar [22] S. I. Pohozaev, On equations of the form $\Delta u = f(x, u, Du)$, Mathematics of the USSR-Sbornik, 41 (1982), 269-280.  doi: 10.1070/SM1982v041n02ABEH002233.  Google Scholar [23] V. N. Pavlenko and O. V. Ul'Yanova, The method of upper and lower solutions for elliptic-type equations with discontinuous nonlinearities, Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved. Mat., 42 (1998), 69-76.   Google Scholar [24] V. N. Pavlenko, Strong solutions of periodic parabolic problems with discontinuous nonlinearities, Differential Equations, 52 (2016), 505-516.  doi: 10.1134/S0012266116040108.  Google Scholar [25] Y. Pang, M. K. Ni, N. T. Levashova and O. A. 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Nefëdov, Periodic solutions with boundary layers of a singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion model, Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 34 (1994), 1133-1140.   Google Scholar [34] C. Wang and X. Zhang, Stability loss delay and smoothness of the return map in slow-fast systems, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst., 17 (2018), 788-822.  doi: 10.1137/17M1130010.  Google Scholar [35] Y. Xu, Z. J. Du and L. Wei, Geometric singular perturbation method to the existence and asymptotic behavior of traveling waves for a generalized burgers-kdv equation, Nolinear Dynamics, 83 (2016), 65-73.  doi: 10.1007/s11071-015-2309-5.  Google Scholar
the picture for the zero approximation $U_{0}(x,t,\epsilon)$ for the solution $u(x,t,\epsilon)$ of (50)
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