Speed determinacy of traveling waves for a lattice stream-population model with Allee effect

This paper investigates the speed selection mechanism for traveling wave fronts of a reaction-diffusion-advection lattice stream-population model with the Allee effect. First, the asymptotic behaviors of the traveling wave solutions are given. Then, sufficient conditions for the speed determinacy of the traveling wave are successfully obtained by constructing appropriate upper and lower solutions. We examine the model with the reaction term f(psi) = psi(1-psi)(1+rho psi), with rho being a nonnegative constant, as a specific example. We give a novel conjecture that there exists a critical value rho(c) > 1, such that the minimal wave speed is linearly selected if and only if rho <= rho(c). Finally, our speculation is verified by numerical calculations.