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We consider the transition from a spatially uniform state to a steady, spatially-periodic pattern in a partial differential equation describing long-wavelength convection. This both extends existing work on the study of rolls, squares and…

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Boundary-induced pattern formation from a spatially uniform state is investigated using one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations. The temporal oscillation is successively transformed into a spatially periodic pattern, triggered by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-01 Takahiro Kohsokabe , Kunihiko Kaneko

When the steady states at infinity become unstable through a pattern forming bifurcation, a travelling wave may bifurcate into a modulated front which is time-periodic in a moving frame. This scenario has been studied by B.Sandstede and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thierry Gallay , Guido Schneider , Hannes Uecker

We study a singular diffusive prey-predator system with nonlocal dispersal for which the carrying capacity of the predator is proportional to the density of prey. We show the existence of positive one-dimensional traveling waves connecting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Jong-Shenq Guo , François Hamel , Chin-Chin Wu

Discrete nonlinear systems support a rich variety of localized and extended wave phenomena, with their dynamics sensitively dependent on the symmetries of the underlying interaction forces within the lattice. Odd elasticity, emerging in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-20 Andrus Giraldo , Stefan Ruschel , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

Spatio-temporally chaotic dynamics of transitional plane Couette flow may give rise to regular turbulent-laminar stripe patterns with a large-scale pattern wavelength and an oblique orientation relative to the laminar flow direction. A…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-23 Florian Reetz , Tobias M. Schneider

Traveling waves triggered by a phase slip in coupled map lattices are studied. A local phase slip affects globally the system, which is in strong contrast with kink propagation. Attractors with different velocities coexist, and form…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Kunihiko Kaneko

In this paper, we study the traveling wave solutions to the density-suppressed motility model describing the ``self-trapping'' mechanism that induces spatio-temporal pattern formations observed in the experiment. We establish the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Jing Li , Zhi-An Wang

We investigate the transport dynamics of elongated particles in cellular vortical flows that undergo spatial oscillations over time. Experimental flow visualizations reveal mixed flow fields with chaotic and elliptic regions coexisting.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-14 Shiyuan Hu , Xiuyuan Yang , Nan Luo , Jun Zhang , Xingkun Man

We analyse the stability of linear dynamical systems defined on sparse, random graphs with predator-prey, competitive, and mutualistic interactions. These systems are aimed at modelling the stability of fixed points in large systems defined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-30 Andrea Marcello Mambuca , Chiara Cammarota , Izaak Neri

We numerically investigate the flow structure of periodic steady water waves of fixed relative mass flux propagating on rotational flows with piece-wise constant vorticity. We show that for wave solutions along the global bifurcation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-25 Lin Chen , Biswajit Basu , Calin-I Martin

This paper studies both existence and spectral stability properties of bounded spatially periodic traveling wave solutions to a large class of scalar viscous balance laws in one space dimension with a reaction function of monostable or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Enrique Alvarez , Ramon G. Plaza

Motivated by earlier studies of artificial perceptions of light called phosphenes, we analyze traveling wave solutions in a chain of periodically forced coupled nonlinear oscillators modeling this phenomenon. We examine the discrete model…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-20 Mei Duanmu , Nathaniel Whitaker , Panos Kevrekidis , Anna Vainchtein , Jonathan Rubin

We examine the effects of a periodically varying flow velocity on the standing and travelling wave patterns formed by the flow-distributed oscillation (FDO) mechanism. In the kinematic (or diffusionless) limit, the phase fronts undergo a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Patrick N. McGraw , Michael Menzinger

The structure of spiral waves is investigated in super-excitable reaction-diffusion systems where the local dynamics exhibits multi-looped phase space trajectories. It is shown that such systems support stable spiral waves with broken…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 Andrei Goryachev , Raymond Kapral

We describe the resulting spatiotemporal dynamics when a homogeneous equilibrium loses stability in a spatially extended system. More precisely, we consider reaction-diffusion systems, assuming only that the reaction kinetics undergo a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Montie Avery

In this paper, we discuss the transport phenomena of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random system which is composed of arrays of electrical dipoles, following the model presented earlier by Erdogan, et al. (J. Opt. Soc. Am. B…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Wang , Zhen Ye

A hyperbolic model for diffusion, nonlinear transport (or advection) and production of a scalar quantity, is considered. The model is based on a constitutive law of Cattaneo-Maxwell type expressing non-Fickian diffusion by means of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Enrique Álvarez , Ricardo Murillo , Ramón G. Plaza

We study surface gravity waves for viscous fluid flows governed by Darcy's law. The free boundary is acted upon by an external pressure posited to be in traveling wave form with a periodic profile. It has been proven that for any given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-13 John Brownfield , Huy Q. Nguyen

Non-reciprocal interactions between scalar fields that represent the concentrations of two active species are known to break the parity and time-reversal (PT) symmetries of the equilibrium state, as manifested in the emergence of travelling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-01 Suropriya Saha , Ramin Golestanian