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June 2015, 8(2): 255-280. doi: 10.3934/krm.2015.8.255

A Hamilton-Jacobi approach for front propagation in kinetic equations

1.	UMR CNRS 5669 `UMPA' and INRIA project `NUMED', École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46, allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France

Received July 2014 Revised November 2014 Published March 2015

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In this paper we use the theory of viscosity solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations to study propagation phenomena in kinetic equations. We perform the hydrodynamic limit of some kinetic models thanks to an adapted WKB ansatz. Our models describe particles moving according to a velocity-jump process, and proliferating thanks to a reaction term of monostable type. The scattering operator is supposed to satisfy a maximum principle. When the velocity space is bounded, we show, under suitable hypotheses, that the phase converges towards the viscosity solution of some constrained Hamilton-Jacobi equation which effective Hamiltonian is obtained solving a suitable eigenvalue problem in the velocity space. In the case of unbounded velocities, the non-solvability of the spectral problem can lead to different behavior. In particular, a front acceleration phenomena can occur. Nevertheless, we expect that when the spectral problem is solvable one can extend the convergence result.

Keywords: Hopf-Cole transformation, Kinetic equations, geometric optics approximation., front propagation, hyperbolic limit, spectral problem.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q92, 45K05, 35C0.

Citation: Emeric Bouin. A Hamilton-Jacobi approach for front propagation in kinetic equations. Kinetic & Related Models, 2015, 8 (2) : 255-280. doi: 10.3934/krm.2015.8.255

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[2]	C. Bardos, R. Santos and R. Sentis, Diffusion approximation and computation of the critical size,, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 284 (1984), 617. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9947-1984-0743736-0. Google Scholar
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[4]	G. Barles, L. C. Evans and P. E. Souganidis, Wavefront propagation for reaction-diffusion systems of PDE,, Duke Math. J., 61 (1990), 835. doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-90-06132-0. Google Scholar
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[6]	G. Barles and P. E. Souganidis, A remark on the asymptotic behavior of the solution of the KPP equation,, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math., 319 (1994), 679. Google Scholar
[7]	E. Bouin and V. Calvez, A kinetic eikonal equation,, C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris, 350* (2012), 243. doi: 10.1016/j.crma.2012.03.009. Google Scholar*
[8]	, E. Bouin, V. Calvez, E. Grenier and G. Nadin,, work in progress., (). Google Scholar
[9]	E. Bouin, V. Calvez, N. Meunier, S. Mirrahimi, B. Perthame, G. Raoul and R. Voituriez, Invasion fronts with variable motility: Phenotype selection, spatial sorting and wave acceleration,, C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris, 350* (2012), 761. doi: 10.1016/j.crma.2012.09.010. Google Scholar*
[10]	E. Bouin, V. Calvez and G. Nadin, Front propagation in a kinetic reaction-transport equation,, preprint, (2013). Google Scholar
[11]	E. Bouin and S. Mirrahimi, A Hamilton-Jacobi approach for a model of population structured by space and trait,, preprint, (2013). Google Scholar
[12]	R. E. Caflisch and B. Nicolaenko, Shock profile solutions of the Boltzmann equation,, Comm. Math. Phys., 86 (1982), 161. doi: 10.1007/BF01206009. Google Scholar
[13]	M. G. Crandall, H. Ishii and P.-L. Lions, User's guide to viscosity solutions of second order partial differential equations,, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.), 27 (1992), 1. doi: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00266-5. Google Scholar
[14]	M. G. Crandall, L. C. Evans and P.-L. Lions, Some properties of viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations,, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 282* (1984), 487. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9947-1984-0732102-X. Google Scholar*
[15]	C. M. Cuesta, S. Hittmeir and Ch. Schmeiser, travelling waves of a kinetic transport model for the KPP-Fisher equation,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 44 (2012), 4128. doi: 10.1137/100795413. Google Scholar
[16]	C. Cuesta and C. Schmeiser, Kinetic profiles for shock waves of scalar conservation laws,, Bull. of the Inst. of Math., 2 (2007), 391. Google Scholar
[17]	P. Degond, T. Goudon and F. Poupaud, Diffusion limit for nonhomogeneous and non-micro-reversible processes,, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 49 (2000), 1175. Google Scholar
[18]	L. C. Evans, Partial Differential Equations,, Second edition, 19 (2010). Google Scholar
[19]	L. C. Evans, The perturbed test function method for viscosity solutions of nonlinear PDE,, Proc. R. Soc. Edinb. Sec. A, 111 (1989), 359. doi: 10.1017/S0308210500018631. Google Scholar
[20]	L. C. Evans and P. E. Souganidis, A PDE approach to geometric optics for certain semilinear parabolic equations,, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 38 (1989), 141. doi: 10.1512/iumj.1989.38.38007. Google Scholar
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[23]	W. H. Fleming and P. E. Souganidis, PDE-viscosity solution approach to some problems of large deviations,, Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci., 4 (1986), 171. Google Scholar
[24]	M. Freidlin, Functional Integration and Partial Differential Equations,, Annals of Mathematics Studies, 109 (1985). Google Scholar
[25]	F. Golse, Shock profiles for the Perthame-Tadmor kinetic model,, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 23 (1998), 1857. Google Scholar
[26]	A. Henkel, J. Müller and C. Pötzsche, Modeling the spread of Phytophthora,, J. Math. Biol., 65 (2012), 1359. doi: 10.1007/s00285-011-0492-7. Google Scholar
[27]	A. Kolmogorov, Über die Analytischen Methoden in der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung,, (On Analytical Methods in the Theory of Probability), (1931). Google Scholar
[28]	A. N. Kolmogorov, I. G. Petrovsky and N. S. Piskunov, Etude de l'équation de la diffusion avec croissance de la quantité de matière et son application à un problème biologique,, Moskow Univ. Math. Bull., 1 (1937), 1. Google Scholar
[29]	M. G. Kreĭn and M. A. Rutman, Linear operators leaving invariant a cone in a Banach space,, Amer. Math. Soc. Translation, 1950* (1950). Google Scholar*
[30]	T.-P. Liu and Shih-Hsien Yu, Boltzmann equation: Micro-macro decompositions and positivity of shock profiles,, Comm. Math. Phys., 246 (2004), 133. doi: 10.1007/s00220-003-1030-2. Google Scholar
[31]	A. Lorz, S. Mirrahimi and B. Perthame, Dirac mass dynamics in multidimensional nonlocal parabolic equations,, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 36 (2011), 1071. doi: 10.1080/03605302.2010.538784. Google Scholar
[32]	B. Perthame, Transport Equations in Biology,, Frontiers in Mathematics, (2007). Google Scholar
[33]	J. Saragosti, V. Calvez, N. Bournaveas, B. Perthame, A. Buguin and P. Silberzan, Directional persistence of chemotactic bacteria in a travelling concentration wave,, PNAS, 108* (2011), 16235. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1101996108. Google Scholar*
[34]	P. E. Souganidis, Front propagation: Theory and applications,, in Viscosity Solutions and Applications* (Montecatini Terme*, (1995), 186. doi: 10.1007/BFb0094298. Google Scholar

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