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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…

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Boundary states that preserve supersymmetry are constructed for fractional D-strings with travelling waves on a ${\bf C}^3/ {{\bf Z}_2\times {\bf Z}_2}$ orbifold. The gravitational radiation emitted between two D-strings with antiparallel…

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We study traveling wave solutions of the nonlinear variational wave equation. In particular, we show how to obtain global, bounded, weak traveling wave solutions from local, classical ones. The resulting waves consist of monotone and…

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Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Guy Katriel

We investigate the existence and spectral stability of traveling wave solutions for a class of fourth-order semilinear wave equations, commonly referred to as beam equations. Using variational methods based on a constrained maximization…

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This paper considers two-dimensional stratified water waves propagating under the force of gravity over an impermeable flat bed and with a free surface. We prove the existence of a global continuum of classical solutions that are periodic…

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We study a two-dimensional free boundary problem that models motility of eukaryotic cells on substrates. This problem consists of an elliptic equation describing the flow of cytoskeleton gel coupled with a convection-diffusion PDE for the…

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We prove the existence of large amplitude bi-periodic traveling waves (stationary in a moving frame) of the two-dimensional non-resistive Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system with a traveling wave external force with large velocity speed…

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We determine the modulational stability of standing waves with small group velocity in quasi-onedimensional systems slightly above the threshold of a supercritical Hopf bifurcation. The stability limits are given by two different…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-09-25 Hermann Riecke , Lorenz Kramer

We prove existence, uniqueness, and stability of transition fronts (generalized traveling waves) for reaction-diffusion equations in cylindrical domains with general inhomogeneous ignition reactions. We also show uniform convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-19 Andrej Zlatos

Previous numerical investigations of the stability and bifurcation properties of different nonlinear combination structures of spiral vortices in a counterrotating Taylor-Couette system that were done for fixed axial wavelengths are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-07-19 A. Pinter , M. Lücke , Ch. Hoffmann

In this paper, we determine orbital and linear stability of periodic waves with the mean zero property related to the Intermediate Long Wave equation. Our arguments follow the recent developments in \cite{andrade-pastor}, \cite{natali} and…

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We analyze a system of reacting elements harmonically coupled to nearest neighbors in the continuum limit. An analytic solution is found for traveling waves. The procedure is used to find oscillatory as well as solitary waves. A comparison…

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A wave front and a wave back that spontaneously connect two hyperbolic equilibria, known as a heteroclinic wave loop, give rise to periodic waves with arbitrarily large spatial periods through the heteroclinic bifurcation. The nonlinear…

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The effect of temporal modulation on traveling waves in the flows in two distinct systems of rotating cylinders, both with broken azimuthal symmetry, has been investigated. It is shown that by modulating the control parameter at twice the…

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We study the fine geometric structure of bifurcation currents in the parameter space of cubic polynomials viewed as dynamical systems. In particular we prove that these currents have some laminar structure in a large region of parameter…

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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

Motion of chemically driven droplets is analyzed by applying a solvability condition of perturbed hydrodynamic equations affected by the adsorbate concentration. Conditions for traveling bifurcation analogous to a similar transition in…

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