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We overview the properties of nonlinear guided waves and (bright and dark) spatial optical solitons in a periodic medium created by a sequence of linear and nonlinear layers. First, we consider a single layer with a cubic nonlinear response…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-04-01 Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We prove the orbital stability of periodic traveling-wave solutions for systems of dispersive equations with coupled nonlinear terms. Our method is basically developed under two assumptions: one concerning the spectrum of the linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Fabrício Cristófani , Ademir Pastor

In this paper we study the invasion fronts of spatially periodic monotone reaction-diffusion systems in a multi-dimensional setting. We study the pulsating traveling waves that connect the trivial equilibrium, for which all components of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Liangliang Deng , Arnaud Ducrot , Quentin Griette

We consider reaction-diffusion equations that are stochastically forced by a small multiplicative noise term. We show that spectrally stable traveling wave solutions to the deterministic system retain their orbital stability if the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Christian Hamster , Hermen Jan Hupkes

In this note, we give constructive upper and lower bounds for the minimal speed of propagation of traveling waves for non-local delayed reaction-diffusion equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-07-16 Maitere Aguerrea , Gabriel Valenzuela

A wave front and a wave back that spontaneously connect two hyperbolic equilibria, known as a heteroclinic wave loop, give rise to periodic waves with arbitrarily large spatial periods through the heteroclinic bifurcation. The nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Ji Li , Ke Wang , Qiliang Wu , Qing Yu

We present an overview of recent advances in the understanding of optical beams in nonlinear media with a spatially nonlocal nonlinear response. We discuss the impact of nonlocality on the modulational instability of plane waves, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Krolikowski , O. Bang , N. I. Nikolov , D. Neshev , J. Wyller , J. J. Rasmussen , D. Edmundson

We extend the result on the stability of travelling waves for stochastic Nagumo equations in [St] to general bistable reaction-diffusion equations with both additive and multiplicative noise, using a variational approach based on functional…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-01 Wilhelm Stannat

We establish nonlinear stability and asymptotic behavior of traveling periodic waves of viscous conservation laws under localized perturbations or nonlocalized perturbations asymptotic to constant shifts in phase, showing that long-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-12 Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

We analyze the existence and stability of nonlinear localized waves in a periodic medium described by the Kronig-Penney model with a nonlinear defect. We demonstrate the existence of a novel type of stable nonlinear band-gap localized…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

When the steady states at infinity become unstable through a pattern forming bifurcation, a travelling wave may bifurcate into a modulated front which is time-periodic in a moving frame. This scenario has been studied by B.Sandstede and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thierry Gallay , Guido Schneider , Hannes Uecker

In this paper we consider the spectral and nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of a generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. In particular, we resolve the long-standing question of nonlinear modulational stability by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

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

In this note, we extend the detailed study of the linearized dynamics obtained for cnoidal waves of the Korteweg--de Vries equation in \cite{JFA-R} to small-amplitude periodic traveling waves of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Corentin Audiard , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Changzhen Sun

We consider general reaction diffusion systems posed on rectangular lattices in two or more spatial dimensions. We show that travelling wave solutions to such systems that propagate in rational directions are nonlinearly stable under small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-28 A. Hoffman , H. J. Hupkes , E. Van Vleck

In this paper we present a rigorous modulational stability theory for periodic traveling wave solutions to equations of nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) type. We first argue that, for Hamiltonian dispersive equations with a non-singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Katelyn Plaisier Leisman , Jared C Bronski , Mathew A Johnson , Robert Marangell

We are concerned with travelling wave solutions arising in a reaction diffusion equation with bistable and nonlocal nonlinearity, for which the comparison principle does not hold. Stability of the equilibrium $u\equiv 1$ is not assumed. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-15 Matthieu Alfaro , Jerome Coville , Gael Raoul

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation with nonlocal anisotropic diffusion and a linear combination of local and nonlocal monostable-type reactions in a space of bounded functions on $\mathbb{R}^d$. Using the properties of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

This paper is concerned with pulsating waves for multi-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations in spatially periodic media. First, assuming the existence of pulsating waves connecting two linearly stable steady states, we study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Weiwei Ding , Zhanghua Liang , Wenfeng Liu