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In this paper we study solitary traveling wave solutions to a damped shallow water system, which is in general quasilinear and of mixed type. We develop a small data well-posedness theory and prove that traveling wave solutions are a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Noah Stevenson , Ian Tice

We study periodic, two-dimensional, gravity-capillary traveling wave solutions to a viscous shallow water system posed on an inclined plane. While thinking of the Reynolds and Bond numbers as fixed and finite, we vary the speed of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Noah Stevenson

Discrete nonlinear systems support a rich variety of localized and extended wave phenomena, with their dynamics sensitively dependent on the symmetries of the underlying interaction forces within the lattice. Odd elasticity, emerging in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-20 Andrus Giraldo , Stefan Ruschel , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

We give a variational proof of global stability for bistable travelling waves of scalar reaction-diffusion equations on the real line. In particular, we recover some of the classical results by P. Fife and J.B. McLeod without any use of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thierry Gallay , Emmanuel Risler

The Nikolaevskiy equation was originally proposed as a model for seismic waves and is also a model for a wide variety of systems incorporating a neutral, Goldstone mode, including electroconvection and reaction-diffusion systems. It is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 Eman Simbawa , Paul C. Matthews , Stephen M. Cox

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

A model consisting of a mixed Kuramoto - Sivashinsky - KdV equation, linearly coupled to an extra linear dissipative equation, is proposed. The model applies to the description of surface waves on multilayered liquid films. The extra…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Boris Malomed , Bao-Feng Feng , Takuji Kawahara

A new asymptotic method is presented for the analysis of the traveling waves in the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system with the diffusion with a finite velocity and Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov kinetics. The analysis makes use of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Fedotov

We follow up an earlier work (briefly reviewed below) to investigate the temporal stability of an exact travelling front solution, constructed in the form of an integral expression, for a one-dimensional discrete Nagumo-like model without…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Priyadarshi Majudar , Avijit Lahiri

This work establishes nonlinear orbital asymptotic stability of scalar radiative shock profiles, namely, traveling wave solutions to the simplified model system of radiating gas \cite{Hm}, consisting of a scalar conservation law coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia , Ramon Plaza , Toan Nguyen , Kevin Zumbrun

The gravito-inertial waves propagating over a shellular baroclinic flow inside a rotating spherical shell are analysed using the Boussinesq approximation. The wave properties are examined by computing paths of characteristics in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Giovanni M. Mirouh , Clément Baruteau , Michel Rieutord , Jérôme Ballot

We consider the Ostrovsky and short pulse models in a symmetric spatial interval, subject to periodic boundary conditions. For the Ostrovsky case, we revisit the classical periodic traveling waves and for the short pulse model, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Sevdzhan Hakkaev , Milena Stanislavova , Atanas Stefanov

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

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

We investigate diffusion-driven instabilities in a FitzHugh-Nagumo reaction-diffusion system with superdiffusive transport, modeled by fractional Laplacian operators with different diffusion orders for the activator and the inhibitor. A…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-04 Rossella Rizzo , Gaetana Gambino , Vincenzo Sciacca , Marco Sammartino

We present a framework for determining effectively the spectrum and stability of traveling waves on networks with symmetries, such as rings and lattices, by computing master stability curves (MSCs). Unlike traditional methods, MSCs are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-16 Stefan Ruschel , Andrus Giraldo

We show that for Sturm-Liouville Systems on the half-line $[0,\infty)$, the Morse index can be expressed in terms of the Maslov index and an additional term associated with the boundary conditions at $x = 0$. Relations are given both for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Peter Howard , Alim Sukhtayev

This paper fully answers a long standing open question concerning the stability/instability of pure gravity periodic traveling water waves -- called Stokes waves -- at the critical Whitham-Benjamin depth $ \mathtt{h}_{\scriptscriptstyle WB}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Massimiliano Berti , Alberto Maspero , Paolo Ventura

We study the stability of traveling waves of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with nonzero condition at infinity obtained via a constrained variational approach. Two important physical models are Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Zhiwu Lin , Zhengping Wang , Chongchun Zeng

The slow dynamics of nearly stationary patterns in a FitzHugh-Nagumo model are studied using a phase dynamics approach. A Cross-Newell phase equation describing slow and weak modulations of periodic stationary solutions is derived. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Aric Hagberg , Ehud Meron , Thierry Passot