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Recently, the Whitham and capillary-Whitham equations were shown to accurately model the evolution of surface waves on shallow water. In order to gain a deeper understanding of these equations, we compute periodic, traveling-wave solutions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-01 John D. Carter , Morgan Rozman

Using continuation methods, we study the global solution structure of periodic solutions for a class of periodically forced equations, generalizing the case of relativistic pendulum. We obtain results on the existence and multiplicity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Philip Korman

We prove the existence of nonradial solutions for the H\'enon equation in the ball with any given number of nodal zones, for arbitrary values of the exponent $\alpha$. For sign-changing solutions, the case $\alpha=0$ -- Lane-Emden equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Anna Lisa Amadori

In this paper, we establish the existence of Stokes waves with piecewise smooth vorticity in a two-dimensional, infinitely deep fluid domain. These waves represent traveling water waves propagating over sheared currents in a semi-infinite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Changfeng Gui , Jun Wang , Wen Yang , Yong Zhang

We classify all bifurcations from traveling waves to non-trivial time-periodic solutions of the Benjamin-Ono equation that are predicted by linearization. We use a spectrally accurate numerical continuation method to study several paths of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2010-06-11 David M. Ambrose , Jon Wilkening

Travelling-wave solutions are shown to bifurcate from relative periodic orbits in plane Poiseuille flow at Re = 2000 in a saddle-node infinite period bifurcation. These solutions consist in self-sustaining sinuous quasi-streamwise streaks…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Subhendu Rawat , Carlo Cossu , François Rincon

We prove the existence of highest, cusped, periodic travelling-wave solutions with exact and optimal $ \alpha $-H\"older continuity in a class of fractional negative-order dispersive equations of the form \begin{equation*} u_t + (|…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Fredrik Hildrum , Jun Xue

We prove global existence of a derivative bi-harmonic wave equation with a non-generic quadratic nonlinearity and small initial data in the scaling critical space $\dot{B}^{2,1}_{\frac{d}{2}}(\mathbb{R}^d) \times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Tobias Schmid

Starting with the periodic waves earlier constructed for the gravity Whitham equation, we parameterise the solution curves through relative wave height, and use a limiting argument to obtain a full family of solitary waves. The resulting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Mats Ehrnström , Katerina Nik , Christoph Walker

We investigate the existence of Wilton ripple solutions of the Kawahara equation. Without loss of generality, these are $2\pi$-periodic, traveling-wave solutions whose profiles at zero amplitude have a codimension-1 bifurcation from a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Ryan P. Creedon

Using continuation methods and bifurcation theory, we study the exact multiplicity of periodic solutions, and the global solution structure, for periodic problems of first order. The results are applied to a population model with fishing,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Philip Korman , Dieter S. Schmidt

This paper is devoted to periodic travelling waves solving Lie-Poisson equations based on the Virasoro group. We show that the reconstruction of any such solution can be carried out exactly, regardless of the underlying Hamiltonian (which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Blagoje Oblak

In this paper we mainly investigate the traveling wave solution of the two dimensional Euler equations with gravity at the free surface over a flat bed. We assume that the free surface is almost periodic in the horizontal direction. Using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Wei Luo , Zhaoyang Yin

We consider steady solutions to the incompressible Euler equations in a two-dimensional channel with rigid walls. The flow consists of two periodic layers of constant vorticity separated by an unknown interface. Using global bifurcation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Alex Doak , Karsten Matthies , Jonathan Sewell , Miles H. Wheeler

In this paper, by using bifurcation method, we successfully find the Fornberg-Whitham equation has a type of traveling wave solutions called kink-like wave solutions and antikinklike wave solutions. They are defined on some semifinal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-07-31 Jiangbo Zhou , Lixin Tian

In this paper, we study the existence of global classical solutions to the generalized surface quasi-geostrophic equation. By using the variational method, we provide some new families of global classical solutions for to the generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Daomin Cao , Guolin Qin , Weicheng Zhan , Changjun Zou

In this paper we provide a criterion for global secondary bifurcation via symmetry breaking. As an application, the occurrence of period-doubling bifurcations for the Lugiato-Lefever equation is proved.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Rainer Mandel

We construct large families of two-dimensional travelling water waves propagating under the influence of gravity in a flow of constant vorticity over a flat bed. A Riemann-Hilbert problem approach is used to recast the governing equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Adrian Constantin , Walter Strauss , Eugen Varvaruca

We present a general approach to prove the existence, both locally and globally in amplitude, of fully localised multi-dimensional patterns in partial differential equations containing a compact spatial heterogeneity. While one-dimensional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-04 Dan J. Hill , David J. B. Lloyd , Matthew R. Turner

This paper provides both the theoretical results and numerical calculations of global solution curves, by continuation in global parameters. Each point on the solution curves is computed directly as the global parameter is varied, so that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Philip Korman , Dieter S. Schmidt