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The Evans function is an analytic function that encodes information about the intersection of certain subspaces in ODE boundary value problems. As such it is a useful tool for computing the spectrum of boundary value problems arising in the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 George Bayliss , Jared C. Bronski

The Evans function is a powerful tool for the stability analysis of viscous shock profiles; zeros of this function carry stability information. In the one-dimensional case, it is typical to compute the Evans function using Goodman's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Blake Barker , Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

We study the asymptotic linear stability of a two-parameter family of solitary waves for the isothermal Euler-Poisson system. When the linearized equations about the solitary waves are considered, the associated eigenvalue problem in $L^2$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Junsik Bae , Bongsuk Kwon

It has long been a standard practice to neglect diffusive effects in stability analyses of detonation waves. Here, with the principal aim of quantifying the impact of these oft-neglected effects on the stability characteristics of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Blake Barker , Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

We demonstrate a geometrically inspired technique for computing Evans functions for the linearised operators about travelling waves. Using the examples of the F-KPP equation and a Keller-Segel model of bacterial chemotaxis, we produce an…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-15 K. Harley , P. v Heijster , R. Marangell , G. J. Pettet , M. Wechselberger

We study stability of monostable waves for reaction-diffusion systems. When the solution is initially close to a fast wave profile in optimal topology, we prove convergence to a shifted profile. The proof relies on explicit resolvent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Louis Garénaux

Continuing the program initiated by Humpherys, Lyng, & Zumbrun [17] for strong detonation waves, we use a combination of analytical and numerical Evans-function techniques to analyze the spectral stability of weak detonation waves in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Jeffrey Hendricks , Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

We consider pattern-forming fronts in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with a traveling spatial heterogeneity which destabilizes, or quenches, the trivial ground state while progressing through the domain. We consider the regime where…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-05-11 Ryan Goh , Björn de Rijk

This paper develops validated computational methods for studying infinite dimensional stable manifolds at equilibrium solutions of parabolic PDEs, synthesizing disparate errors resulting from numerical approximation. To construct our…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Jan Bouwe van den Berg , Jonathan Jaquette , J. D. Mireles James

We study by a combination of numerical and analytical Evans function techniques the stability of solitary wave solutions of the St. Venant equations for viscous shallow-water flow down an incline, and related models. Our main result is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

This paper explores the analytical approach for obtaining the multiple solutions of three-wave interacting system in (1+1) dimensions. We present a novel approach by expressing the wave solutions in terms of Jacobi elliptic functions and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-03-14 Niladri Ghosh , Amiya Das , Debraj Nath

Using analytical and numerical Evans-function techniques, we examine the spectral stability of strong-detonation-wave solutions of Majda's scalar model for a reacting gas mixture with an Arrhenius-type ignition function. We introduce an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

In this article, we consider a class of bi-stable reaction-diffusion equations in two components on the real line. We assume that the system is singularly perturbed, i.e. that the ratio of the diffusion coefficients is (asymptotically)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Arjen Doelman David Iron Yasumasa Nishiura

We study the stability and dynamics of traveling-front solutions of a modified Kuramoto--Sivashinsky equation arising in the modeling of nanoscale ripple patterns that form when a nominally flat solid surface is bombarded with a broad ion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-03 Mathew A. Johnson , Gregory D. Lyng , Connor Smith

We revisit the existence and stability of the critical front in the extended Fisher-KPP equation, refining earlier results of Rottsch\"afer and Wayne [28] which establish stability of fronts without identifying a precise decay rate. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Montie Avery , Louis Garénaux

In this paper, we investigate the existence, uniqueness, and spectral stability of traveling waves arising from a single threshold neural field model with one spatial dimension, a Heaviside firing rate function, axonal propagation delay,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Alan Dyson

The nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a linear periodic potential and a nonlinearity coefficient $\Gamma$ with a discontinuity supports stationary localized solitary waves with frequencies inside spectral gaps, so called surface gap…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-03-01 Elizabeth Blank , Tomáš Dohnal

In this paper, we develop a comprehensive mathematical toolbox for the construction and spectral stability analysis of stationary multiple front and pulse solutions to general semilinear evolution problems on the real line with spatially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Lukas Bengel , Björn de Rijk

It is well known that the linear stability of solutions of partial differential equations which are integrable can be very efficiently investigated by means of spectral methods. We present here a direct construction of the eigenmodes of the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-06-18 Antonio Degasperis , Sara Lombardo , Matteo Sommacal

We consider a diffusive Rosenzweig-MacArthur predator-prey model in the situation when the prey diffuses at the rate much smaller than that of the predator. In a certain parameter regime, the existence of fronts in the system is known: the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Anna Ghazaryan , Stéphane Lafortune , Yuri Latushkin , Vahagn Manukian