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Spiral waves are striking self-organized coherent structures that organize spatio-temporal dynamics in dissipative, spatially extended systems. In this paper, we provide a conceptual approach to various properties of spiral waves. Rather…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-09 Björn Sandstede , Arnd Scheel

We study the stability of Stokes waves on a free surface of an ideal fluid of infinite depth. For small steepness the modulational instability dominates the dynamics, but its growth rate is vastly surpassed for steeper waves by an…

Turing patterns are stationary, wave-like structures that emerge from the nonequilibrium assembly of reactive and diffusive components. While they are foundational in biophysics, their classical formulation relies on a single characteristic…

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In this paper, the Turing instability in reaction-diffusion models defined on complex networks is studied. Here, we focus on three types of models which generate complex networks, i.e. the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi, the Watts-Strogatz, and the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-22 Yusuke Ide , Hirofumi Izuhara , Takuya Machida

We perform full-scale numerical simulation of instability of weakly nonlinear waves on the surface of deep fluid. We show that the instability development leads to chaotization and formation of wave turbulence. We study instability both of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 A. O. Korotkevich , A. I. Dyachenko , V. E. Zakharov

The linear stability of rapid granular flow on a slope under gravity against the longitudinal perturbation is analyzed using hydrodynamic equations. It is demonstrated that the steady flow uniform along the flow direction becomes unstable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Namiko Mitarai , Hiizu Nakanishi

Onset of the instability of a multiple-scattering speckle pattern in a random medium with Kerr nonlinearity is significantly affected by the noninstantaneous character of the nonlinear medium response. The fundamental time scale of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 S. E. Skipetrov

A novel route to instabilities and turbulence in fluid and plasma flows is presented in kinetic Vlasov-Maxwell model. New kind of flow instabilities is shown to arise due to the availability of new kinetic energy sources which are absent in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Dhurjati Prasad Datta , Sudip Sen

We consider transverse propagation of electromagnetic waves through a two-dimensional composite material containing a periodic rectangular array of circular cylinders. Propagation of waves is described by the Helmholtz equation with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Yuri A. Godin , Boris Vainberg

The hydrodynamic instabilities of propagating interfaces in Hele-Shaw channels or porous media under the influence of an imposed flow and gravitational acceleration are investigated within the framework of Darcy's law. The stability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-13 Joel Daou , Prabakaran Rajamanickam

Longitudinal wave propagation is considered in a pair of waveguides connected by bilinear spring systems. The nature of the nonlinearity causes the compressive and tensile force-displacement relations of the bilinear spring to behave in a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-12-02 Zhaocheng Lu , Andrew N. Norris

We consider the wave propagation for a reaction-diffusion equation on the real line, with a random drift and Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piscounov (FKPP) type nonlinear reaction. We show that when the average drift is positive, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Dihang Guan , Hui He , Wenqing Hu , Jiaojiao Yang

We study the coherent propagation and incoherent diffusion of in-plane elastic waves in a two dimensional continuum populated by many, randomly placed and oriented, edge dislocations. Because of the Peierls-Nabarro force the dislocations…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Dmitry Churochkin , Fernando Lund

The two-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) can be used as a model of phenomena in physical systems ranging from waves on deep water to pulses in optical fibers. In this paper, we establish that every one-dimensional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-08 John D. Carter , Harvey Segur

This study presents a detailed investigation of the modulational stability of interfacial wave packets in a two-layer inviscid incompressible fluid with finite layer thicknesses and interfacial surface tension. The stability analysis is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-20 Olga Avramenko , Volodymyr Naradovyi

Reaction diffusion systems with Turing instability and mass conservation are studied. In such systems, abrupt decays of stripes follow quasi-stationary states in sequence. At steady state, the distance between stripes is much longer than…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Shuji Ishihara , Mikiya Otsuji , Atsushi Mochizuki

The goal of this work is to determine classes of travelling solitary wave solutions for a differential approximation of a finite difference scheme by means of a hyperbolic ansatz. It is shown that spurious solitary waves can occur in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Claire David , Pierre Sagaut

We analyze mechanisms and regimes of wave packet spreading in nonlinear disordered media. We predict that wave packets can spread in two regimes of strong and weak chaos. We discuss resonance probabilities, nonlinear diffusion equations,…

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Cooperative behaviors arising from bacterial cell-to-cell communication can be modeled by reaction-diffusion equations having only a single diffusible component. This paper presents the following three contributions for the systematic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hiroki Miyazako , Yutaka Hori , Shinji Hara

Two front instabilities in a reaction-diffusion system are shown to lead to the formation of complex patterns. The first is an instability to transverse modulations that drives the formation of labyrinthine patterns. The second is a…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 Aric Hagberg , Ehud Meron