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Planar travelling waves on $\mathbb R^d,$ with $ d\geq 2,$ are shown to persist in systems of reaction-diffusion equations with multiplicative noise on significantly long timescales with high probability, provided that the wave is orbitally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Mark van den Bosch , Hermen Jan Hupkes

We study the paraxial wave equation with a randomly perturbed index of refraction, which can model the propagation of a wave beam in a turbulent medium. The random perturbation is a stationary and isotropic process with a general form of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

Symmetries and conservation laws are studied for a generalized Westervelt equation which is a nonlinear partial differential equation modelling the propagation of sound waves in a compressible medium. This nonlinear wave equation is widely…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Almudena del Pilar Márquez , Elena Recio , María Luz Gandarias

Using spatial domain techniques developed by the authors and Myunghyun Oh in the context of parabolic conservation laws, we establish under a natural set of spectral stability conditions nonlinear asymptotic stability with decay at Gaussian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Mathew Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation in a one-dimensional space, where the diffusion coefficient changes sign from positive to negative and back to positive. The reaction term is bistable, with its interior zero located in the region…

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We study radial waves in (2+1)-dimensional noncommutative scalar field theory, using operatorial methods. The waves propagate along a discrete radial coordinate and are described by finite series deformations of Bessel-type functions. At…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ciprian Acatrinei

Planar wave trains are traveling wave solutions whose wave profiles are periodic in one spatial direction and constant in the transverse direction. In this paper, we investigate the stability of planar wave trains in reaction-diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Björn de Rijk , Björn Sandstede

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

Westervelt's equation is a nonlinear wave equation that is widely used to model the propagation of sound waves in a compressible medium, with one important application being ultra-sound in human tissue. Two fundamental aspects of this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Stephen C. Anco , Almudena P. Marquez , Tamara M. Garrido , Maria L. Gandarias

We introduce nonparaxial spatially accelerating waves whose two-dimensional transverse profiles propagate along semicircular trajectories while approximately preserving their shape. We derive these waves by considering imaginary…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-13 Miguel A. Alonso , Miguel A. Bandres

In this paper, we characterized resonant interaction of weakly nonlinear hyperbolic waves in gas dynamics with a real gas background. An asymptotic approach is used to study the interaction between waves, governed by the Euler equations of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Harsh V. Mahara , V. D. Sharma

We prove the convergence of the solutions of the parabolic wave equation to that of the Gaussian white-noise model widely used in the physical literature. The random medium is isotropic and is assumed to have integrable correlation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Albert Fannjiang , Knut Solna

In this paper we introduce a model describing diffusion of species by a suitable regularization of a "forward-backward" parabolic equation. In particular, we prove existence and uniqueness of solutions, as well as continuous dependence on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-14 Elena Bonetti , Pierluigi Colli , Giuseppe Tomassetti

The Westervelt equation models the propagation of nonlinear acoustic waves in a regime well-suited for applications such as medical ultrasound imaging. In this work, we prove that the nonlinear parameter, as well as the sound speed, can be…

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In dispersive media, hydrodynamic singularities are resolved by coherent wavetrains known as dispersive shock waves (DSWs). Only dynamically expanding, temporal DSWs are possible in one-dimensional media. The additional degree of freedom…

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We consider an inverse problem governed by the Westervelt equation with linear diffusivity and quadratic-type nonlinearity. The objective of this problem is to recover all the coefficients of this nonlinear partial differential equation. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Sebastian Acosta , Benjamin Palacios

When a plane electromagnetic wave impinges upon a diffraction grating or other periodic structures, reflected and transmitted waves propagate away from the structure in different radiation channels. A diffraction anomaly occurs when the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Zitao Mai , Ya Yan Lu

Since the early works[1-4] on the so-called nondiffracting waves (called also Localized Waves), a great deal of results has been published on this important subject, from both the theoretical and the experimental point of view. Initially,…

General Physics · Physics 2010-01-31 Michel Zamboni-Rached , Erasmo Recami , Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa

We present the spatially accelerating solutions of the Maxwell equations. Such non-paraxial beams accelerate in a circular trajectory, thus generalizing the concept of Airy beams. For both TE and TM polarizations, the beams exhibit…

Waves are propagating disturbances that redistribute energy across space. Previous studies have shown that for waves propagating through an inhomogeneously moving mean flow, the conserved quantity is wave action rather than wave energy,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-29 Zhaohua Wu , Jie Sun , Zhe-Min Tan , Ming Cai , Yongyun Hu , Norden E. Huang