Delayed stability switches in singularly perturbed predator-prey models

In this paper we provide an elementary proof of the existence of canard solutions for a class of singularly perturbed predator-prey planar systems in which there occurs a transcritical bifurcation of quasi steady states. The proof uses a one-dimensional theory of canard solutions developed by V. F. Butuzov, N. N. Nefedov and K. R. Schneider, and an appropriate monotonicity assumption on the vector field to extend it to the two-dimensional case. The result is applied to identify all possible predator-prey models with quadratic vector fields allowing for the existence of canard solutions

Chapman-Enskog asymptotic procedure in structured population dynamics

Complexity of many biological models often makes impossible their robust theoretical and numerical analysis and thus requires a systematical method of reducing the number of variables in the system in such a way that the dynamics of the simplified model approximates the original way in a reasonable way. Such an aggregation of variables is often done by ad hoc methods. In turns out that in many biological systems the well-known Chapman-Enskog asymptotic procedure is well suited for aggregation which then can be viewed as passing from a microscopic (kinetic) to a macroscopic (hydrodynamic) description of the system. We demonstrate this approach by applying it to an age- and space-structured population model

Linear chaos for the Quick-Thinking-Driver model

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00233-015-9704-6In recent years, the topic of car-following has experimented an increased importance in traffic engineering and safety research. This has become a very interesting topic because of the development of driverless cars (Google driverless cars, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car).Driving models which describe the interaction between adjacent vehicles in the same lane have a big interest in simulation modeling, such as the Quick-Thinking-Driver model. A non-linear version of it can be given using the logistic map, and then chaos appears. We show that an infinite-dimensional version of the linear model presents a chaotic behaviour using the same approach as for studying chaos of death models of cell growth.The authors were supported by a grant from the FPU program of MEC and MEC Project MTM2013-47093-P.Conejero, JA.; Murillo Arcila, M.; Seoane-Sepúlveda, JB. (2016). 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Delayed stability switches in singularly perturbed predator–prey models

In this paper we provide an elementary proof of the existence of canard solutions for a class of singularly perturbed planar systems in which there occurs a transcritical bifurcation of the quasi steady states. The proof uses the one-dimensional result proved by V. F. Butuzov, N. N. Nefedov and K. R. Schneider, and an appropriate monotonicity assumption on the vector eld. The result is applied to identify all possible predator-prey models with quadratic vector elds allowing for the existence of canard solutions.http://www.elsevier.com/locate/nonrwa2018-06-30hb2017Mathematics and Applied Mathematic

Chaotic asymptotic behaviour of the solutions of the Lighthill Whitham Richards equation

[EN] The phenomenon of chaos has been exhibited in mathematical nonlinear models that describe traffic flows, see, for instance (Li and Gao in Modern Phys Lett B 18(26-27):1395-1402, 2004; Li in Phys. D Nonlinear Phenom 207(1-2):41-51, 2005). At microscopic level, Devaney chaos and distributional chaos have been exhibited for some car-following models, such as the quick-thinking-driver model and the forward and backward control model (Barrachina et al. in 2015; Conejero et al. in Semigroup Forum, 2015). We present here the existence of chaos for the macroscopic model given by the Lighthill Whitham Richards equation.The authors are supported by MEC Project MTM2013-47093-P. The second and third authors are supported by GVA, Project PROMETEOII/2013/013Conejero, JA.; Martínez Jiménez, F.; Peris Manguillot, A.; Ródenas Escribá, FDA. (2016). Chaotic asymptotic behaviour of the solutions of the Lighthill Whitham Richards equation. 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Integral representation of the linear Boltzmann operator for granular gas dynamics with applications

We investigate the properties of the collision operator associated to the linear Boltzmann equation for dissipative hard-spheres arising in granular gas dynamics. We establish that, as in the case of non-dissipative interactions, the gain collision operator is an integral operator whose kernel is made explicit. One deduces from this result a complete picture of the spectrum of the collision operator in an Hilbert space setting, generalizing results from T. Carleman to granular gases. In the same way, we obtain from this integral representation of the gain operator that the semigroup in L^1(\R \times \R,\d \x \otimes \d\v) associated to the linear Boltzmann equation for dissipative hard spheres is honest generalizing known results from the first author.Comment: 19 pages, to appear in Journal of Statistical Physic

Elongation of wood fibers combines features of diffuse and tip growth

Xylem fibers are highly elongated cells that are key constituents of wood, play major physiological roles in plants, comprise an important terrestrial carbon reservoir, and thus have enormous ecological and economic importance. As they develop, from fusiform initials, their bodies remain the same length while their tips elongate and intrude into intercellular spaces.To elucidate mechanisms of tip elongation, we studied the cell wall along the length of isolated, elongating aspen xylem fibers and used computer simulations to predict the forces driving the intercellular space formation required for their growth.We found pectin matrix epitopes (JIM5, LM7) concentrated at the tips where cellulose microfibrils have transverse orientation, and xyloglucan epitopes (CCRC-M89, CCRC-M58) in fiber bodies where microfibrils are disordered. These features are accompanied by changes in cell wall thickness, indicating that while the cell wall elongates strictly at the tips, it is deposited all over fibers. Computer modeling revealed that the intercellular space formation needed for intrusive growth may only require targeted release of cell adhesion, which allows turgor pressure in neighboring fiber cells to 'round' the cells creating spaces.These characteristics show that xylem fibers' elongation involves a distinct mechanism that combines features of both diffuse and tip growth