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Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 George I. Hagstrom , Eliezer Hameiri

We establish the existence and nonlinear stability of travelling pulse solutions for the discrete FitzHugh-Nagumo equation with infinite-range interactions close to the continuum limit. For the verification of the spectral properties, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-07 W. M. Schouten , H. J. Hupkes

We consider the Vlasov--Poisson system describing a two-species plasma with spatial dimension $1$ and the velocity variable in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We find the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of solitary waves, shock waves,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Masahiro Suzuki , Masahiro Takayama , Katherine Zhiyuan Zhang

There have been several existence results for the standing waves of FitzHugh-Nagumo equations. Such waves are the connecting orbits of an autonomous second-order Lagrangian system and the corresponding kinetic energy is an indefinite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Chao-Nien Chen , Eric Séré

The purpose of this paper is to prove that, for a large class of nonlinear evolution equations known as scalar viscous balance laws, the spectral (linear) instability condition of periodic traveling wave solutions implies their orbital…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Enrique Álvarez , Jaime Angulo Pava , Ramón G. Plaza

In this paper, we investigate the spectral instability of periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation to long wavelength transverse perturbations in the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation. By…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-09 Mathew A. Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

We report on an instability arising when surface gravity waves propagate in a rotating frame. The Stokes drift associated to the uniform wave field, together with global rotation, drives a mean flow in the form of a horizontally invariant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-26 Kannabiran Seshasayanan , Basile Gallet

In the present study, we revisit the theme of wave propagation in locally resonant granular crystal systems, also referred to as Mass-in-Mass systems. We use 3 distinct approaches to identify relevant traveling waves. The first consists of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 H. Xu , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Stefanov

In this study, we analyze the behavior of monotone traveling waves of a one-dimensional porous medium equation modeling mechanical properties of living tissues. We are interested in the asymptotics where the pressure, which governs the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Anne-Laure Dalibard , Gabriela Lopez-Ruiz , Charlotte Perrin

A self-consistent, thermodynamic approach is employed to derive the wave energy of a magnetohydrodynamic system within the harmonic approximation and to obtain the familiar dispersion relation from the resulting equation of motion. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 S. Chatterjee , P. S. Joarder

In this paper, we consider a generalized model of $2\times 2$ Keller-Segel system with nonlinear chemical gradient and small cell diffusion. The existence of the traveling pulses for such equations is established by the methods of geometric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-25 Chueh-Hsin Chang , Yu-Shuo Chen , John M. Hong , Bo-Chih Huang

We investigate the existence and spectral stability of traveling wave solutions for a class of fourth-order semilinear wave equations, commonly referred to as beam equations. Using variational methods based on a constrained maximization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Vishnu Iyer , Ross Parker , Atanas G. Stefanov

Shockwaves provide a useful and rewarding route to the nonequilibrium properties of simple fluids far from equilibrium. For simplicity, we study a strong shockwave in a dense two-dimensional fluid. Here, our study of nonlinear transport…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-24 Wm. G. Hoover , Carol G. Hoover

In this article we are concerned with the existence and orbital stability of traveling wave solutions of a general class of nonlocal wave equations: $ u_{tt}-Lu_{xx}=B(\pm |u|^{p-1}u)_{xx}$, $ p>1$. The main characteristic of this class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-20 H. A. Erbay , S. Erbay , A. Erkip

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-09 C. H. S. Hamster , H. J. Hupkes

We study a semilinear hyperbolic system of PDEs which arises as a continuum approximation of the discrete nonlinear dimer array model introduced by Hadad, Vitelli and Alu (HVA) in \cite{HVA17}. We classify the system's traveling waves, and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-02-13 Huaiyu Li , Andrew Hofstrand , Michael I. Weinstein

We consider the mass critical fractional (NLS). We show the existence of travelling waves for all mass below the ground state mass, and give a complete description of the associated profiles in the small mass limit. We therefore recover a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Ivan Naumkin , Pierre Raphaël

We study analytically the orbital stability of the standing waves with a peak-Gausson profile for a nonlinear logarithmic Schr\"odinger equation with $\delta$-interaction (attractive and repulsive). A major difficulty is to compute the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Jaime Angulo Pava , Nataliia Goloshchapova

We present in closed form some special travelling-wave solutions (on the real line or on the circle) of a perturbed sine-Gordon equation. The perturbation of the equation consists of a constant forcing term $\gamma$ and a linear dissipative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-28 Gaetano Fiore

For Hill's equations with matrix valued periodic potential, we discuss relations between the Morse index, counting the number of unstable eigenvalues, and the Maslov index, counting the number of signed intersections of a path in the space…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Christopher K. R. T. Jones , Yuri Latushkin , Robert Marangell