Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate a diffusive intraguild predation model with intraspecific competition and double free boundaries in one-dimensional space. By adapting existing techniques, we first prove the existence and uniqueness, regularity and uniform estimates of global solution. Then, in terms of parameters range, we show that a spreading-vanishing dichotomy for this free boundary problem. The long time behaviors of and criteria for spreading and vanishing are also obtained. Additionally, when spreading happens, we propose an upper bound and a lower bound for the asymptotic spreading speeds of the free boundaries. Moreover, numerical simulations are provided to confirm our theoretical results. This paper is an improvement and extension of literatures [Zhang DW, Dai BX. A free boundary problem for the diffusive intraguild predation model with intraspecific competition. J Math Anal Appl. 2019;474:381–412; Zhang DW, Dai BX. Spreading and vanishing in a diffusive intraguild predation model with intraspecific competition and free boundary. Math Methods Appl Sci. 2019;42:6917–6943].
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