Partially overlapping travelling waves in a parabolic-hyperbolic system

We study the existence of travelling wave solutions of a one-dimensional parabolic-hyperbolic system for u (x, t) and v (x, t), which arises as a model for contact inhibition of cell growth. Compared to the scalar Fisher-KPP equation, the structure of the travelling wave solutions is surprisingly rich and strongly parameter-dependent. In the present paper we consider a parameter regime where the minimal wave speed is positive. We show that there exists a branch of travelling wave solutions for wave speeds which are larger than the minimal one. But the main result is more surprising: for certain values of the parameters the travelling wave with minimal wave speed is not segregated (a solution is called segregated if the product uv vanishes almost everywhere) and in that case there exists a second branch of "partially overlapping" travelling wave solutions for speeds between the minimal one and that of the (unique) segregated travelling wave.