Hopf bifurcation for a delayed predator-prey diffusion system with Dirichlet boundary condition

A delayed predator-prey diffusion system with Beddington-DeAngelis functional response under Dirichlet boundary condition is investigated. The existence and stability of the positive spatially nonhomogeneous steady-state solution are obtained via the implicit function theorem. Moreover, taking feedback time delay τ as the bifurcation parameter, Hopf bifurcation near the positive steady-state solution is proved to occur at a sequence of critical values, we can show that feedback time delay can induce nonhomogeneous periodic oscillatory patterns. The direction of Hopf bifurcation is forward when parameter m in model (1.2) is sufficiently large. Numerical simulations and numerical solutions are presented to illustrate our theoretical results.