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We develop a description of diffusion limited growth in solid-solid transformations, which are strongly influenced by elastic effects. Density differences and structural transformations provoke stresses at interfaces, which affect the phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-18 M. Fleck , C. Hueter , D. Pilipenko , R. Spatschek , E. A. Brener

In this work, we study the nonlinear traveling waves in density stratified fluids with depth varying shear currents. Beginning the formulation of the water-wave problem due to [1], we extend the work of [4] and [18] to examine the interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-30 K. L. Oliveras , C. W. Curtis

This paper concerns the existence and properties of traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion-convection equations on the real line. We consider a general diffusion term involving the $p$-Laplacian and combustion-type reaction term. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Pavel Drábek , Michaela Zahradníková

An analysis of traveling wave solutions of pure cross-diffusion systems, i.e., systems that lack reaction and self-diffusion terms, is presented. Using the qualitative theory of phase plane analysis the conditions for existence of different…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-07-11 Faina S. Berezovskaya , Georgy P. Karev , Artem S. Novozhilov

Looking at rational solid-fluid mixture theories in the context of their biomechanical perspectives, this work aims at proposing a two-scale constitutive theory of a poroelastic solid infused with an inviscid compressible fluid. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 S. Quiligotti , G. Maugin , F. dell'Isola

We study the dynamics of a ferrofluid thin film confined in a Hele-Shaw cell, and subjected to a tilted nonuniform magnetic field. It is shown that the interface between the ferrofluid and an inviscid outer fluid (air) supports traveling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-12-17 Zongxin Yu , Ivan C. Christov

This paper deals with a nonhomogeneous scalar parabolic equation with possibly degenerate diffusion term; the process has only one stationary state. The equation can be interpreted as modeling collective movements (crowd dynamics, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-17 Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Wolf-Jürgen Beyn , Denny Otten , Jens Rottmann-Matthes

We study an incompressible Darcy's free boundary problem, recently introduced in [22]. Our goal is to prove the existence of non-trivial traveling wave solutions and thus validate the interest of this model to describe cell motility. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Thomas Alazard , Martina Magliocca , Nicolas Meunier

We consider the possibility that the primordial fluctuations (scalar and tensor) might have been standing waves at their moment of creation, whether or not they had a quantum origin. We lay down the general conditions for spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-21 Giulia Gubitosi , Joao Magueijo

The viscous regularization of an ill-posed diffusion equation with bistable nonlinearity predicts a hysteretic behavior of dynamical phase transitions but a complete mathematical \mbox{understanding} of the intricate multiscale evolution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Carina Geldhauser , Michael Herrmann , Dirk Janßen

This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions for integro-difference systems of higher order. By using Schauder fixed point theorem, the existence of traveling wave solutions is reduced to the existence of generalized upper and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-19 Guo Lin

We propose a thermodynamically consistent general-purpose model describing diffusion of a solute or a fluid in a solid undergoing possible phase transformations and damage, beside possible visco-inelastic processes. Also heat…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Tomas Roubicek , Giuseppe Tomassetti

We consider shear wave propagation in soft viscoelastic solids of rate type. Based on objective stress rates, the constitutive model accounts for finite strain, incompressibility, as well as stress- and strain-rate viscoelasticity. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-25 Harold Berjamin , Michel Destrade , Giuseppe Saccomandi

Sufficient conditions for either existence or non-existence of traveling wave solutions for a general quasi-linear reaction-diffusion-convection equation, possibly highly degenerate or singular, with discontinuous coefficients are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Umberto Guarnotta , Cristina Marcelli

Allen-Cahn equation is a fundamental continuum model that describes phase transitions in multi-component mixtures. We prove the existence of traveling waves for vector valued Allen-Cahn equations in the context of Ginzburg-Landau theories;…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Xinfu Chen , Zhilei Liang

We consider a system of two reaction-diffusion-advection equations describing the one dimensional directed motion of particles with superimposed diffusion and mutual alignment. For this system we show the existence of traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Heinrich Freistühler , Jan Fuhrmann

The Navier-Stokes-Korteweg and the Euler-Korteweg equations are considered in isothermal setting. These are diffuse interface models of two-phase flow. For the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations, we show that there is no periodic traveling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Yoshikazu Giga , Takahito Kashiwabara , Haruki Takemura

We find analytical solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard equation for the dynamics of an interface in a system with a conserved order parameter (Model B). We show that, although steady-state solutions of Model B are unphysical in the far-field,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 R. M. L. Evans , M. E. Cates

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