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The spectral problem associated with the linearization about solitary waves of spinor systems or optical coupled mode equations supporting gap solitons is formulated in terms of the Evans function, a complex analytic function whose zeros…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gianne Derks , Georg A. Gottwald

We study the point spectrum of the linearisation of Euler's equation for the ideal fluid on the torus about a shear flow. By separation of variables the problem is reduced to the spectral theory of a complex Hill's equation. Using Hill's…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Holger R. Dullin , Robert Marangell

In the spectral stability analysis of localized patterns to singular perturbed evolution problems, one often encounters that the Evans function respects the scale separation. In such cases the Evans function of the full linear stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Björn de Rijk , Arjen Doelman , Jens Rademacher

We consider linear instability of solitary waves of several classes of dispersive long wave models. They include generalizations of KDV, BBM, regularized Boussinesq equations, with general dispersive operators and nonlinear terms. We obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-04 Zhiwu Lin

Frequently encountered in nature, internal solitary waves in stratified fluids are well-observed and well-studied from the experimental, the theoretical, and the numerical perspective. From the mathematical point of view, these waves are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Andreas Klaiber

We consider the Keller-Segel model for chemotaxis with a nonlinear diffusion coefficent and a singular sensitivity function. We show the existence of travelling waves for wave speeds above a critical value, and establish local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-20 Martin Meyries

We show the relevance of the nonlinear Fisher and Kolmogorov-Petrovsky- Piscounov (KPP) equation to the problem of high energy evolution of the QCD amplitudes. We explain how the traveling wave solutions of this equation are related to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Munier , R. Peschanski

We investigate the spectral stability of travelling wave solutions in a Keller-Segel model of bacterial chemotaxis with a logarithmic chemosensitivity function and a constant, sublinear, and linear consumption rate. Linearising around the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-22 P. N. Davis , P. van Heijster , R. Marangell

We investigate the point spectrum associated with travelling wave solutions in a Keller-Segel model for bacterial chemotaxis with small diffusivity of the chemoattractant, a logarithmic chemosensitivity function and a constant, sublinear or…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-01 P. N. Davis , P. van Heijster , R. Marangell

In this paper we investigate spectral stability of traveling wave solutions to 1-$D$ quantum hydrodynamics system with nonlinear viscosity in the $(\rho,u)$, that is, density and velocity, variables. We derive a sufficient condition for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Corrado Lattanzio , Delyan Zhelyazov

We consider a Fisher-KPP-type equation, where both diffusion and nonlinear part are nonlocal, with anisotropic probability kernels. Under minimal conditions on the coefficients, we prove existence, uniqueness, and uniform space-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

We study travelling wave solutions of a 1D continuum model for collective cell migration in which cells are characterised by position and polarity. Four different types of travelling wave solutions are identified which represent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Nizhum Rahman , Robert Marangell , Dietmar Oelz

The Fisher-KPP equation with general nonlinear diffusion and arbitrary kinetic orders in the reaction terms is considered. The existence of oscillatory travelling wave solutions is proved for this model. Conditions for the existence of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Ariel Sánchez-Valdés , Benito Hernández-Bermejo

In this paper, the exp-function method with the aid of symbolic computational system is used to obtain generalized travelling wave solutions of a Burgers-Fisher equation with variable coefficients. It is shown that the exp-function method,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2010-04-13 Bo-Kui Chen , Yang Li , Han-Lin Chen , Bing-Hong Wang

We consider the stability of nonlinear traveling waves in a class of activator-inhibitor systems. The eigenvalue equation arising from linearizing about the wave is seen to preserve the manifold of Lagrangian planes for a nonstandard…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Paul Cornwell , Christopher K. R. T. Jones

The Evans function is a powerful tool for the stability analysis of viscous shock profiles; zeros of this function carry stability information. In the one-dimensional case, it is typical to compute the Evans function using Goodman's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Blake Barker , Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

In this paper we introduce the one-sided FKPP equation in the context of homogeneous fragmentation processes. The main result of the present paper is concerned with the existence and uniqueness of one-sided FKPP travelling waves in this…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-10 Robert Knobloch

We consider the one-dimensional KPP-equation driven by space-time white noise and extend the construction of travelling wave solutions arising from Heavyside initial data from [Tribe, 1996, MR1396765] to non-negative continuous functions…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-05 Sandra Kliem

This work demonstrates an innovative numerical method for counting and locating eigenvalues with the Evans function. Utilizing the geometric phase in the Hopf bundle, the technique calculates the winding of the Evans function about a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Colin Grudzien

We formulate the notion of the classical Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piscounov (FKPP) reaction diffusion equation associated with a homogeneous conservative fragmentation process and study its traveling waves. Specifically, we establish…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-30 J. Berestycki , S. C. Harris , A. E. Kyprianou