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We prove the existence of a traveling wave solution for a boundary reaction diffusion equation when the reaction term is the combustion nonlinearity with ignition temperature. A key role in the proof is plaid by an explicit formula for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-25 L. Caffarelli , A. Mellet , Y. Sire

The theory of traveling waves and spreading speeds is developed for time-space periodic monotone semiflows with monostable structure. By using traveling waves of the associated Poincar\'e maps in a strong sense, we establish the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Jian Fang , Xiao Yu , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

In traffic flow, self-organized wave propagation, which characterizes congestion, has been reproduced in macroscopic and microscopic models. Hydrodynamic models, a subset of macroscopic models, can be derived from microscopic-level…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Kota Ikeda , Toru Kan , Toshiyuki Ogawa

The purpose of this work is to introduce a concept of traveling waves in the setting of periodic metric graphs. It is known that the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (NLS) equation on periodic metric graphs can be reduced asymptotically on long…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Stefan Le Coz , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Guido Schneider

An outstanding problem in Earth science is understanding the method of transport of magma in the Earth's mantle. Models for this process, transport in a viscously deformable porous media, give rise to scalar degenerate, dispersive,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Gideon Simpson , Marc Spiegelman , Michael I. Weinstein

We consider the problem of existence and stability of solitary traveling waves for the one dimensional discrete non linear Schroedinger equation (DNLS) with cubic nonlinearity, near the continuous limit.We construct a family of solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Joackim Bernier , Erwan Faou

In the framework of hyperbolic conservation laws regularised by including diffusive and dispersive terms, we study monotone travelling waves for the generalised Rosenau-Korteweg de Vries equation. We establish existence as well as linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Gnord Maypaokha , Nabil Bedjaoui , Joaquim M. C. Correia , Michael Grinfeld

We obtain the precise decay rates of traveling wave for a class of nonlocal evolution equations arising in the theory of phase transitions. We also investigate the spectrum of the operator obtained by linearizing at such a traveling wave.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-05-23 Guangyu Zhao , Shigui Ruan

We consider a 2+1 dimensional wave equation appearing in the context of polarized waves for the nonlinear Maxwell equations. The equation is quasilinear in the time derivatives and involves two material functions $V$ and $\Gamma$. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Gabriele Bruell , Piotr Idzik , Wolfgang Reichel

We develop a method to calculate the persistent currents and their spatial distribution (and transport properties) on graphs made of quasi-1D diffusive wires. They are directly related to the field derivatives of the determinant of a matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Pascaud , G. Montambaux

We study an integro-differential equation that describes the slow erosion of granular flow. The equation is a first order non-linear conservation law where the flux function includes an integral term. We show that there exist unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-20 Graziano Guerra , Wen Shen

We consider a scalar parabolic equation in one spatial dimension. The equation is constituted by a convective term, a reaction term with one or two equilibria, and a positive diffusivity which can however vanish. We prove the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

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

We consider two scalar conservation laws with non-local flux functions, describing traffic flow on roads with rough conditions. In the first model, the velocity of the car depends on an averaged downstream density, while in the second model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Wen Shen

In the dynamics generated by the suspension bridge equation, traveling waves are an essential feature. The existing literature focuses primarily on the idealized one-dimensional case, while traveling structures in two spatial dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Lindsey van der Aalst , Jan Bouwe van den Berg , Jean-Philippe Lessard

In the present paper an introduction to the new subject of nonlinear dispersive hamiltonian equations on graphs is given. The focus is on recently established properties of solutions in the case of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Special…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Diego Noja

Energy transmission over long distances by waves is a key mechanism for many natural processes. This possibility arises when an inhomogeneous medium is arranged in such a manner that it enables a certain type of wave to propagate with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-05 Semyon Churilov

Scalar conservation laws with non-convex fluxes have shock wave solutions that violate the Lax entropy condition. In this paper, such solutions are selected by showing that some of them have corresponding traveling waves for the equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Michael Shearer , Kimberly R. Spayd , Ellen R. Swanson

In this work, we first prove a stability theorem for traveling waves in a class of non-cooperative reaction-diffusion systems with nonlocal dispersal of equal diffusivities. Our stability criterion is in the sense that the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Jong-Shenq Guo , Masahiko Shimojo

The existence of travelling waves for a coupled system of hyperbolic/ parabolic equations is established in the case of a finite number of velocities in the kinetic equation. This finds application in collective motion of chemotactic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Vincent Calvez , Laurent Gosse , Monika Twarogowska