Qualitative analysis and traveling wave solutions of a predator-prey model with time delay and stage structure

Abstract

In this paper, we considered a delayed predator-prey model with stage structure and Beddington-DeAngelis type functional response. First, we analyzed the stability of the constant equilibrium points of the model by the linear stability method. Furthermore, we considered the existence of traveling wave solutions connecting the zero equilibrium point and the unique positive equilibrium point. Second, we transformed the existence of traveling wave solutions into the existence of fixed points of an operator by constructing suitable upper and lower solutions, and combined with the Schauder fixed point theorem, we gave the existence of fixed points and obtained the existence of traveling wave solutions of the model.

Keywords

• predator-prey model
• stage structure
• time delay
• upper-lower solutions
• traveling wave solution