Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 July 2018
We study the dynamics of a reaction–diffusion–advection equation $u_{t}=u_{xx}-au_{x}+f(u)$ on the right half-line with Robin boundary condition
$u_{x}=au$ at
$x=0$, where
$f(u)$ is a combustion nonlinearity. We show that, when
$0<a<c$ (where
$c$ is the travelling wave speed of
$u_{t}=u_{xx}+f(u)$),
$u$ converges in the
$L_{loc}^{\infty }([0,\infty ))$ topology either to
$0$ or to a positive steady state; when
$a\geq c$, a solution
$u$ starting from a small initial datum tends to
$0$ in the
$L^{\infty }([0,\infty ))$ topology, but this is not true for a solution starting from a large initial datum; when
$a>c$, such a solution converges to
$0$ in
$L_{loc}^{\infty }([0,\infty ))$ but not in
$L^{\infty }([0,\infty ))$ topology.
This research was partly supported by NSFC (Nos. 11701374 and 11671262).