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Instabilities driven by strong gradients appear in a wide variety of physical systems, including plasmas, neutral fluids, and self-gravitating systems. This work develops an analytic formulation to describe the transport structure and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Emma G. Devin , Vinícius N. Duarte

This paper studies steady-state traffic flow on a ring road with up- and down- slopes using a semi-discrete model. By exploiting the relations between the semi-discrete and the continuum models, a steady-state solution is uniquely…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Chun-Xiu Wu , Peng Zhang , S. C. Wong , Keechoo Choi

We study localized traveling waves and chaotic states in strongly nonlinear one-dimensional Hamiltonian lattices. We show that the solitary waves are super-exponentially localized, and present an accurate numerical method allowing to find…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Karsten Ahnert , Arkady Pikovsky

We demonstrate the existence of dynamically stable multihump solitary waves in polaron-type models describing interaction of envelope and lattice excitations. In comparison with the earlier theory of multihump optical solitons [see Phys.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Serge F. Mingaleev , Yuri S. Kivshar , Yuri B. Gaididei , Peter L. Christiansen

In this study, we analyze the behavior of monotone traveling waves of a one-dimensional porous medium equation modeling mechanical properties of living tissues. We are interested in the asymptotics where the pressure, which governs the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Anne-Laure Dalibard , Gabriela Lopez-Ruiz , Charlotte Perrin

Some classes of the so called "travelling wave" solutions of Einstein and Einstein - Maxwell equations in General Relativity and of dynamical equations for massless bosonic fields in string gravity in four and higher dimensions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-13 George Alekseev

In the dynamics generated by the suspension bridge equation, traveling waves are an essential feature. The existing literature focuses primarily on the idealized one-dimensional case, while traveling structures in two spatial dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Lindsey van der Aalst , Jan Bouwe van den Berg , Jean-Philippe Lessard

Driven many-particle systems with nonlinear interactions are known to often display multi-stability, i.e. depending on the respective initial condition, there may be different outcomes. Here, we study this phenomenon for traffic models,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Dirk Helbing , Mehdi Moussaid

Nonlinear wave phenomena such as stop-and-go traffic patterns are widely observed in vehicular flow but remain challenging to describe within a rigorous mathematical framework. Motivated by this, we investigate nonlinear wave structures in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Kota Ikeda , Tomoyuki Miyaji

Characteristic curves of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation can be seen as action minimizing trajectories of fluid particles. However this description is valid only for smooth solutions. For nonsmooth "viscosity" solutions, which give rise to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-19 Konstantin Khanin , Andrei Sobolevski

We consider the problem of existence and stability of solitary traveling waves for the one dimensional discrete non linear Schroedinger equation (DNLS) with cubic nonlinearity, near the continuous limit.We construct a family of solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Joackim Bernier , Erwan Faou

Methods of dynamical system's theory are used for numerical study of transport and mixing of passive particles (water masses, temperature, salinity, pollutants, etc.) in simple kinematic ocean models composed with the main Eulerian coherent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 M. V. Budyansky , M. Yu. Uleysky , S. V. Prants

Travelling waves of densities of binary fluid mixtures are investigated near a critical point. The free energy is considered in a non-local form taking account of the density gradients. The equations of motions are applied to a universal…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Henri Gouin , Augusto Muracchini , Tommaso Ruggeri

Mixing and transport of passive particles are studied in a simple kinematic model of a meandering jet flow motivated by the problem of lateral mixing and transport in the Gulf Stream. We briefly discuss a model streamfunction, Hamiltonian…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-05-29 S. V. Prants , M. V. Budyansky , M. Yu. Uleysky , G. M. Zaslavsky

In many Hamiltonian systems, propagation of steadily travelling solitons or kinks is prohibited because of resonances with linear excitations. We show that Hamiltonian systems with resonances may admit an infinite number of travelling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-17 Georgy L. Alfimov , Elina V. Medvedeva , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

This paper is concerned with the study of a model case of first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations posed on a "junction", that is to say the union of a finite number of half-lines with a unique common point. The main result is a comparison…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-11 Cyril Imbert , Régis Monneau , Hasnaa Zidani

The kinematic wave model of traffic flow on a road network is a system of hyperbolic conservation laws, for which the Riemann solver is of physical, analytical, and numerical importance. In this paper, we present a Riemann solver at a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Wen-Long Jin

A set of traveling wave solution to convection-reaction-diffusion equation is studied by means of methods of local nonlinear analysis and numerical simulation. It is shown the existence of compactly supported solutions as well as solitary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Vsevolod A. Vladimirov

The article summarizes the studies of wave fields in structured non-equilibrium media describing by means of nonlocal hydrodynamic models. Due to the symmetry properties of models, we derived the invariant wave solutions satisfying…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-05 V. A. Danylenko , S. I. Skurativskyi

In this work, we revisit a criterion, originally proposed in [Nonlinearity {\bf 17}, 207 (2004)], for the stability of solitary traveling waves in Hamiltonian, infinite-dimensional lattice dynamical systems. We discuss the implications of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-11-10 Haitao Xu , Jesús Cuevas--Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Anna Vainchtein
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