Speeds of Spread and Propagation for KPP Models in Time Almost and Space Periodic Media

The current paper is devoted to the study of spatial spreading and front propagating dynamics of KPP models in inhomogeneous media, particularly, in time almost periodic and space periodic media. While spatial spreading and front propagating dynamics of KPP models in time independent or periodic media has been widely studied, there is little study on such dynamics when the media is nonperiodically inhomogeneous. This paper develops some theoretical foundation for the study of the speeds of spread and propagation for KPP models in time almost periodic and space periodic media. It introduces a notion of spreading speed intervals for such models for the first time, which extends the classical concept of the spreading speeds for time independent or periodic KPP models to time almost periodic models and can be used for more general time dependent models. It also introduces a notion of generalized propagating speed intervals of front solutions to time almost periodic and space periodic KPP models for the first ...

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