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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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

We consider front propagation in a reactive Boussinesq system in an infinite vertical strip. We establish nonlinear stability of planar fronts for narrow domains when the Rayleigh number is not too large. Planar fronts are shown to be…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Constantin , Alexander Kiselev , Lenya Ryzhik

Dispersive PDEs are important both in applications (wave phenomena e.g. in hy- drodynamics, nonlinear optics, plasma physics, Bose-Einstein condensates,...) and a mathematically very challenging class of partial differential equations,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Kristelle Roidot , Norbert Mauser

The dynamics of transient patterns formed by front propagation in extended nonequilibrium systems is considered. Under certain circumstances, the state left behind a front propagating into an unstable homogeneous state can be an unstable…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Montagne , A. Amengual , E. Hernandez-Garcia , M. San Miguel

The problem of propagating nonlinear acoustic waves is considered; the solution to which, both with and without damping, having been obtained to-date starting from the Navier-Stokes-Duhem equations together with the continuity and thermal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Markus Scholle

Propagation of turbulent premixed flames influenced by the intrinsic hydrodynamic flame instability (the Darrieus-Landau instability) is considered in a two-dimensional case using the model nonlinear equation proposed recently. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 Maxim Zaytsev , Vitaliy Bychkov

We study existence, stability, and dynamics of linear and nonlinear stationary modes propagating in radially symmetric multi-core waveguides with balanced gain and loss. We demonstrate that, in general, the system can be reduced to an…

We consider the damped hyperbolic equation (1) \epsilon u_{tt} + u_t = u_{xx} + F(u), x \in R, t \ge 0, where \epsilon is a positive, not necessarily small parameter. We assume that F(0) = F(1) = 0 and that F is concave on the interval…

patt-sol · Physics 2007-05-23 Th. Gallay , G. Raugel

The non-linear hydrodynamic stability of thin, compressible, Keplerian disks is studied on the large two-dimensional compressible scale, using a high-order accuracy spectral method. We show that purely hydrodynamic perturbations, while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrick Godon , Mario Livio

We present regularity results for nonlinear drift-diffusion equations of porous medium type (together with their incompressible limit). We relax the assumptions imposed on the drift term with respect to previous results and additionally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Noemi David , Filippo Santambrogio , Markus Schmidtchen

In this paper we prove the propagation of singularities for the wave equation on differential forms with natural (i.e. relative or absolute) boundary conditions on Lorentzian manifolds with corners, which in particular includes a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-15 Andras Vasy

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

We determine the nonlinear stability of shock-fronted travelling waves arising in a reaction-nonlinear diffusion PDE, subject to a fourth-order spatial derivative term multiplied by a small parameter $\varepsilon$ that models {\it nonlocal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Ian Lizarraga , Robert Marangell

This paper deals with an inverse source problem for the $1$D time-fractional diffusion equation by using boundary measurement. The conditional stability in identification of the unknown source term is proved on the basis of the Fourier…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Zhiyuan Li

A kinetic equation describing the nonlinear evolution of intense electromagnetic pulses in electron-positron (e-p) plasmas is presented. The modulational instability is analyzed for a relativistically intense partially coherent pulse, and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Marklund , B. Eliasson , P. K. Shukla

The dispersing equation was derived from system of the hydrodynamic equations that take into account the gravity, and from boundary conditions of shock front. The dispersing equation made it possible to study unstable stability of front not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 V. V. Lyahov , V. M. Neshchadim

The diffusion equation is the primary tool to study the movement dynamics of a free Brownian particle, but when spatial heterogeneities in the form of permeable interfaces are present, no fundamental equation has been derived. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Toby Kay , Luca Giuggioli

The cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) in one dimension is considered in the presence of an intensity-dependent dispersion term. We study bright solitary waves with smooth profiles which extend from the limit where the dependence of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-22 P. G. Kevrekidis , D. E. Pelinovsky , R. M. Ross

We analyze the pattern forming ability and pattern stability for a one-dimensional non-linear transport-diffusion equation on the circle. We show that the trivial steady state is stable when diffusion is sufficiently strong. In the limit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Edith Geigant , Michael Stoll

We examine the general question of statistical changes experienced by ensembles of nonlinear random waves propagating in systems ruled by integrable equations. In our study that enters within the framework of integrable turbulence, we…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 S. Randoux , P. Walczak , M. Onorato , P. Suret