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In this paper, we study the traveling wave solutions to the density-suppressed motility model describing the ``self-trapping'' mechanism that induces spatio-temporal pattern formations observed in the experiment. We establish the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Jing Li , Zhi-An Wang

In this study, we investigate the existence of traveling wave solutions for a SIR model on two-dimensional lattice. The existence of traveling waves is established within the framework of upper and lower solutions and the Schauder…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Ran Zhang , Shunchang Su , Xue Ren

In this work we revisit the existence, stability and dynamics of unstable traveling solitary waves in the context of lattice dynamical systems. We consider a nonlinear lattice of an $\alpha$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam type with the additional feature…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-16 H. Duran , H. Xu , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Vainchtein

We study the existence of solitary waves in a diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) lattice. For monatomic FPUT the traveling wave equations are a regular perturbation of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation's but, surprisingly, we find…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Timothy E. Faver , J. Douglas Wright

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

We study the existence of monotone traveling wave solutions in a class of nonclassical diffusion equations that include both standard diffusion and a higher-order mixed space-time dispersive term. The reaction term is nonlinear and subject…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 William Barker , Le Xuan Dong , Vu Trong Luong , Nguyen Duong Toan

This article produces wave equations and constructs traveling wave solutions that are intimately related to Newton's equations of celestial mechanics. The traveling wave solutions are expressed in ``closed form'' in terms of elementary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Harry Gingold , Jocelyn Quaintance

In the present work, we study coherent structures in a one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattice in which the coupling between waveguides is periodically modulated. Numerical experiments with single-site initial conditions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-23 Ross Parker , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , Alejandro Aceves

We prove the existence of periodic travelling wave solutions for general discrete nonlinear Klein-Gordon systems, considering both cases of hard and soft on-site potentials. In the case of hard on-site potentials we implement a fixed point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Dirk Hennig , Nikos I. Karachalios

This paper is concerned with a lattice dynamical system modeling the evolution of susceptible and infective individuals at discrete niches. We prove the existence of traveling waves connecting the disease-free state to non-trivial leftover…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Yan-Yu Chen , Jong-Shenq Guo , Francois Hamel

Previous numerical investigations of the stability and bifurcation properties of different nonlinear combination structures of spiral vortices in a counterrotating Taylor-Couette system that were done for fixed axial wavelengths are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-07-19 A. Pinter , M. Lücke , Ch. Hoffmann

In this topical review we explore the dynamics of nonlinear lattices with a particular focus to Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou type models that arise in the study of elastic media and, more specifically, granular crystals. We first revisit the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-29 Christopher Chong , P. G. Kevrekidis

In this work we revisit a classical problem of traveling waves in a damped Frenkel-Kontorova lattice driven by a constant external force. We compute these solutions as fixed points of a nonlinear map and obtain the corresponding kinetic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-04 A. Vainchtein , J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , H. Xu

In this work, we provide two complementary perspectives for the (spectral) stability of solitary traveling waves in Hamiltonian nonlinear dynamical lattices, of which the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam and the Toda lattice are prototypical examples. One…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-20 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Vainchtein , H. Xu

In this paper, we mainly consider two class of travelling stratified periodic water waves, one with negative (or without) surface tension and the other with constant Bernoulli's function and stagnation points. We first establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Fengquan Li , Fei Xu , Yong Zhang

In this paper we fill the gap in understanding the non-stationary resonance dynamics of the weakly coupled pendula model, having significant applications in numerous fields of physics such as super- conducting Josephson junctions,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-12-09 Leonid I. Manevitch , Francesco Romeo

We investigate the occurrence of topologically protected waves in classical fluids confined on curved surfaces. Using a combination of topological band theory and real space analysis, we demonstrate the existence of a system-independent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-25 Richard Green , Jay Armas , Jan de Boer , Luca Giomi

The present paper is concerned with the existence of traveling wave solutions of the asymptotic model, derived by the authors in a previous work, to approximate the unidirectional evolution of a collision-free plasma in a magnetic field.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Diego Alonso-Orán , Angel Durán , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

In this note, we study the existence of traveling waves of a surface model in a non-newtonian fluid with odd viscosity. The proof relies on nonlinear bifurcation techniques.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Diego Alonso-Orán , Claudia García , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

A family of three-dimensional travelling waves for flow through a pipe of circular cross section is identified. The travelling waves are dominated by pairs of downstream vortices and streaks. They originate in saddle-node bifurcations at…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Faisst , B. Eckhardt