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Using a new method of monotone iteration of a pair of smooth lower- and upper-solutions, the traveling wave solutions of the classical Lotka-Volterra system are shown to exist for a family of wave speeds. Such constructed upper and lower…
We study the Cauchy problem on the real line for the nonlocal Fisher-KPP equation in one spatial dimension, \[ u_t = D u_{xx} + u(1-\phi*u), \] where $\phi*u$ is a spatial convolution with the top hat kernel, $\phi(y) \equiv…
We study the large time asymptotics of a solution of the Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equation, with an initial condition that is a compact perturbation of a step function. A well-known result of Bramson states that, in the reference frame…
For the Nonlinear Schrodinger equation in dimension 2, the existence of a global minimizer of the energy at fixed momentum has been established by Bethuel-Gravejat-Saut. This minimizer is a travelling wave for the Nonlinear Schrodinger…
We establish existence of travelling waves to the gradient system $u_t = u_{zz} - \nabla W(u)$ connecting two minima of $W$ when $u : \R \times (0,\infty) \larrow \R^N$, that is, we establish existence of a pair $(U,c) \in [C^2(\R)]^N \by…
In this paper, we consider two species chemotaxis systems with Lotka-Volterra competition reaction terms. Under appropriate conditions on the parameters in such a system, we establish the existence of traveling wave solutions of the system…
We consider an epidemic model with direct transmission given by a system of nonlinear partial differential equations and study the existence of traveling wave solutions. When the basic reproductive number of the considered model is less…
We prove the existence of Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) type traveling fronts in space-time periodic and mean zero incompressible advection, and establish a variational (minimization) formula for the minimal speeds. We approach the…
We study the equation $u_t +uu_x +u-K*u=0$ in the case of an arbitrary $K \geq 0$, which is a generalization of a model for radiating gas, in which $K(y)={1/2}e^{-|y|}$. Using a monotone iteration scheme argument we establish the existence…
We consider smooth solutions of the Burgers-Hilbert equation that are a small perturbation $\delta$ from a global periodic traveling wave with small amplitude $\epsilon$. We use a modified energy method to prove the existence time of smooth…
We consider in this paper travelling wave solutions to stochastic partial differential equations and corresponding wave speed. As a particular example we consider the Nagumo equation with multiplicative noise which we mainly consider in the…
We analyze a non-standard isoperimetric problem in the plane associated with a metric having degenerate conformal factor at two points. Under certain assumptions on the conformal factor, we establish the existence of curves of least length…
We study a Fisher-KPP equation with spatially periodic diffusion and reaction terms. We identify a class of periodic media for which the equation admits an explicit, closed-form solution. Through a nonlinear change of variables, the problem…
We study the stability of traveling wave solutions to the Burgers--Hilbert equation on $\mathbb{T}$ in the regime of small frequency $\omega$ and large wave speed $c$. For $\omega = 3$ and $c \approx 1.1$, we show that the linearized…
The free boundary problem\[ \begin{cases} \partial_tu=\frac{1}{2}\Delta u+u,\quad &t>0, \, x>L_t,\\ u(t,x)=0,\quad &t>0,\, x\le L_t,\\ \int_{L_t}^{\infty}u(t,y)dy=1,\quad &t> 0,\\ u(t,x)dx \to u_0(dx)&\text{weakly as }t\to 0, \end{cases}\]…
We establish several existence results for traveling-wave solutions of the nonlocal derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with general coefficients by variational methods. We study associated minimization problems in the subcritical…
We derive sufficient conditions for the existence of a periodic traveling wave solution to an integro-difference equation with a piecewise constant growth function exhibiting a stable period2 cycle and strong Allee effect. The mean…
We investigate the existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions near monotonic shear flows with non-constant background density for the two-dimensional inhomogeneous Euler equations in a finite channel. For any small $\tau>0$,…
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…
We examine the possibility of travelling wave solutions within the nonlinear Euler-Heisenberg electrodynamics. Since this theory resembles in its form the electrodynamics in matter, it is a priori not clear if there exist travelling wave…