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We consider the damped wave equation \alpha u_tt + u_t = u_xx - V'(u) on the whole real line, where V is a bistable potential. This equation has travelling front solutions of the form u(x,t) = h(x-st) which describe a moving interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-10-04 Thierry Gallay , Romain Joly

We investigate the existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions near monotonic shear flows with non-constant background density for the two-dimensional inhomogeneous Euler equations in a finite channel. For any small $\tau>0$,…

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We derive transport equations for the propagation of water wave action in the presence of a static, spatially random surface drift. Using the Wigner distribution $\W(\x,\k,t)$ to represent the envelope of the wave amplitude at position $\x$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillaume Bal , Tom Chou

We establish rigorously convergence of a semi-discrete upwind scheme for the nonlinear variational wave equation $u_{tt} - c(u)(c(u) u_x)_x = 0$ with $u|_{t=0}=u_0$ and $u_t|_{t=0}=v_0$. Introducing Riemann invariants $R=u_t+c u_x$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-08-29 H. Holden , K. H. Karlsen , N. H. Risebro

This paper presents an existence theory for solitary waves at the interface between a thin ice sheet (modelled using the Cosserat theory of hyperelastic shells) and an ideal fluid (of finite depth and in irrotational motion) for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Mark D. Groves , Benedikt Hewer , Erik Wahlén

We prove that traveling waves in viscous compressible liquids are a generic phenomenon. The setting for our result is a horizontally infinite, finite depth layer of compressible, barotropic, viscous fluid, modeled by the free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Noah Stevenson , Ian Tice

This paper is concerned with the non-existence of time-periodic traveling wave solution with speed less than the critical speed for diffusive Kermack-McKendrick epidemic model incorporating seasonality and nonlocal interactions induced by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Shuang-Ming Wang

We study theoretically the capillary-gravity waves created at the water-air interface by a small object during a sudden accelerated or decelerated rectilinear motion. We analyze the wave resistance corresponding to the transient wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 Fabien Closa , Alexei Chepelianskii , Elie Raphael

This paper presents a pioneering investigation into the existence of traveling wave solutions for the two-dimensional Euler equations with constant vorticity in a curved annular domain, where gravity acts radially inward. This configuration…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Liang Li , Quan Wang

We study an integro-differential equation that describes the slow erosion of granular flow. The equation is a first order non-linear conservation law where the flux function includes an integral term. We show that there exist unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-20 Graziano Guerra , Wen Shen

This paper develops the so-called Weighted Energy-Dissipation (WED) variational approach for the analysis of gradient flows in metric spaces. This focuses on the minimization of the parameter-dependent global-in-time functional of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Riccarda Rossi , Giuseppe Savaré , Antonio Segatti , Ulisse Stefanelli

By a bifurcation argument we prove that the capillary-gravity Whitham equation features asymmetrical periodic travelling wave solution of arbitrarily small amplitude. Such waves exist only in the weak surface tension regime…

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We present and analyze two mathematical models for the self consistent quantum transport of electrons in a graphene layer. We treat two situations. First, when the particles can move in all the plane $\RR^2$, the model takes the form of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-28 Raymond El Hajj , Florian Méhats

In this work we prove the existence of solution for a class of perturbed fractional Hamiltonian systems given by \begin{eqnarray}\label{eq00} -{_{t}}D_{\infty}^{\alpha}(_{-\infty}D_{t}^{\alpha}u(t)) - L(t)u(t) + \nabla W(t,u(t)) = f(t),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-28 César Torres

This paper is concerned with the traveling waves of delayed reaction-diffusion systems where the reaction function possesses the mixed quasimonotonicity property. By the so-called monotone iteration scheme and Schauder's fixed point…

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We study the propagation of an unusual type of periodic travelling waves in chains of identical beads interacting via Hertz's contact forces. Each bead periodically undergoes a compression phase followed by a free flight, due to special…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-04 Guillaume James

In this short note, we derive a system of two nonlocal equations for the water-wave problem following the work of [AFM06]. Specifically, we consider a fluid with a one-dimensional free surface for an irrotational fluid both with, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-04 KL Oliveras

Traveling wave solutions, in the form $u(x,t)=f(x+ct)$, to the generalized Burgers-Fisher equation $$ \partial_tu=u_{xx}+k(u^n)_x+u^p-u^q, \quad (x,t)\in\mathbb{R}\times(0,\infty), $$ with $n\geq2$, $p>q\geq1$ and $k>0$, are classified with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , Ariel Sánchez

Nonlinear fronts between spatially extended traveling wave convection (TW) and quiescent fluid and spatially localized traveling waves (LTWs) are investigated in quantitative detail in the bistable regime of binary fluid mixtures heated…

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