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We prove the existence of travelling-wave solutions for a system of coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations arising in nonlinear optics. Such a system describes second-harmonic generation in optical materials with $\chi^{(2)}$…
In this paper we introduce a precise definition of algebraic traveling wave solution for general n-th order partial differential equations. All examples of explicit traveling waves known by the authors fall in this category. Our main result…
In this paper we study symmetry reductions of a class of nonlinear third order partial differential equations $u_t -\epsilon u_{xxt} +2\kappa u_x= u u_{xxx} +\alpha u u_x +\beta u_x u_{xx}$ where $\epsilon$, $\kappa$, $\alpha$ and $\beta$…
A family of fixed-point iterations is proposed for the numerical computation of traveling waves and localized ground states. The methods are extended versions of Petviashvili type, and they are applicable when the nonlinear term of the…
In this paper we employ three recent analytical approaches to investigate the possible classes of traveling wave solutions of some members of a family of so-called short-pulse equations (SPE). A recent, novel application of phase-plane…
This article concerns a class of beam equations with damping on rectangular tori. When the generators satisfy certain relationship, by excluding some value of two model parameters, we prove that such models admit small amplitude…
We study waves in a chain of dispersively coupled phase oscillators. Two approaches -- a quasi-continuous approximation and an iterative numerical solution of the lattice equation -- allow us to characterize different types of traveling…
This paper deals with the existence of travelling wave solutions for a general one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. We construct these solutions by minimizing the energy under the constraint of fixed momentum. We also prove…
The topic of this paper are nonlinear traveling waves occuring in a system of damped waves equations in one space variable. We extend the freezing method from first to second order equations in time. When applied to a Cauchy problem, this…
Some higher-order quasilinear parabolic, hyperbolic, and nonlinear dispersion equations are shown to admit various blow-up, extinction, and travelling wave solutions, which reduce to variational problems admitting countable families of…
Scalar conservation laws with non-convex fluxes have shock wave solutions that violate the Lax entropy condition. In this paper, such solutions are selected by showing that some of them have corresponding traveling waves for the equation…
We derive parametric travelling-wave solutions of non-linear QCD equations. They describe the evolution towards saturation in the geometric scaling region. The method, based on an expansion in the inverse of the wave velocity, leads to a…
For the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation in R 1+d , we prove the existence of multi-solitary waves made of any number N of decoupled bound states. This extends the work of C{\^o}te and Mu{\~n}oz (Forum Math. Sigma 2 (2014)) which was…
The present paper is concerned with the existence of solitary wave solutions of Rosenau-type equations. By using two standard theories, Normal Form Theory and Concentration-Compactness Theory, some results of existence of solitary waves of…
Existence and bifurcation results are derived for quasi periodic traveling waves of discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equations with nonlocal interactions and with polynomial type potentials. Variational tools are used. Several concrete…
In this work, we apply the factorization technique to the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony like equations, B(m,n), in order to get travelling wave solutions. We will focus on some special cases for which m is not equal to n, and we will obtain these…
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…
Traveling modulating pulse solutions consist of a small amplitude pulse-like envelope moving with a constant speed and modulating a harmonic carrier wave. Such solutions can be approximated by solitons of an effective nonlinear Schrodinger…
We study the existence and numerical computation of traveling wave solutions for a family of nonlinear higher-order Boussinesq evolution systems with a Hamiltonian structure. This general Boussinesq evolution system includes a broad class…
Motivated by the viewpoint of integrable systems, we study commuting flows of 2-component quasilinear equations, reducing to investigate the solutions of the wave equation with non-constant speed. In this paper, we apply the reduction…