Paper 1, Section I, B
Part II, 2011
A proposed model of insect dispersal is given by the equation
where is the density of insects and and are constants.
Interpret the term on the right-hand side.
Explain why a solution of the form
where is a positive constant, can potentially represent the dispersal of a fixed number of insects initially localised at the origin.
Show that the equation (1) can be satisfied by a solution of the form (2) if and find the corresponding function .