A RELAXATION METHOD FOR ONE DIMENSIONAL TRAVELING WAVES OF SINGULAR AND NONLOCAL EQUATIONS

Recent models motivated by biological phenomena lead to nonlocal PDEs or systems with singularities. It has been recently understood that these systems may have traveling wave solutions that are not physically relevant [19]. We present an original method that relies on the physical evolution to capture the "stable" traveling waves. This method allows us to obtain the traveling wave profiles and their traveling speed simultaneously. It is easy to implement, and it applies to classical differential equations as well as nonlocal equations and systems with singularities. We also show the convergence of the scheme analytically for bistable reaction diffusion equations over the whole space R.