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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

We modify the approach of Burton and Toland [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. (2011)] to show the existence of periodic surface water waves with vorticity in order that it becomes suited to a stability analysis. This is achieved by enlarging the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-25 B. Buffoni , G. R. Burton

The wave equation for spin-0 massless particles with the Lorentz violating term leading to varying speed of particles is considered. This equation is represented as the first-order 6$\times$6 matrix equation. Solutions of the equation in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-04 S. I. Kruglov

Travelling wave solutions of reaction-diffusion equations are widely used to model the spatial spread of populations and other phenomena in biology and physics. In this article, we reinterpret the classical variational principle approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Rebecca M. Crossley , Carles Falco , Ruth E. Baker

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

We consider the traveling wave speed for Fisher-KPP (FKPP) fronts under the influence of repulsive chemotaxis and provide an almost complete picture of its asymptotic dependence on parameters representing the strength and length-scale of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Quentin Griette , Christopher Henderson , Olga Turanova

We simplify the nonlinear equations of motion of charged particles in an external electromagnetic field that is the sum of a plane travelling wave F_t(ct-z) and a static part F_s(x,y,z): by adopting the light-like coordinate ct-z instead of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Gaetano Fiore

We prove the existence and uniqueness, for wave speeds sufficiently large, of monotone traveling wave solutions connecting stable to unstable spatial equilibria for a class of $N$-dimensional lattice differential equations with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-06-14 Aaron Hoffman , Benjamin Kennedy

Sufficient conditions for either existence or non-existence of traveling wave solutions for a general quasi-linear reaction-diffusion-convection equation, possibly highly degenerate or singular, with discontinuous coefficients are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Umberto Guarnotta , Cristina Marcelli

In this paper we reveal the existence of a large family of new, nontrivial and smooth traveling waves for the 2D Euler equation at an arbitrarily small distance from the Couette flow in $H^s$, with $s<3/2$, at the level of the vorticity.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Ángel Castro , Daniel Lear

The Kawahara equation is a weakly nonlinear long-wave model of dispersive waves that emerges when leading order dispersive effects are in balance with the next order correction. Traveling wave solutions of the Kawahara equation satisfy a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-03-04 Patrick Sprenger , Thomas J. Bridges , Michael Shearer

One of the most remarkable features of known nonstationary solutions to the incompressible Euler equations is the phenomenon known as the Taylor hypothesis, which predicts that coarse scale averages of the velocity carry the fine scale…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Philip Isett

This paper is concerned with some nonlinear propagation phenomena for reaction-advection-diffusion equations with Kolmogrov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) type nonlinearities in general periodic domains or in infinite cylinders with oscillating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-23 Mohammad El Smaily

A well-known optimal velocity (OV) model describes vehicle motion along a single lane road, which reduces to a perturbed modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation within the unstable regime. Steady travelling wave solutions to this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Laura Hattam

We study the boundary value problem for nonlinear fourth-order partial differential equation with jumping nonlinearity which can serve, e.g., as a model of an asymmetrically supported bending beam. We focus on a special type of solutions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Hana Formánková Levá , Gabriela Holubová

We study minimizers of the functional $$ \int_{B_1^+}|\nabla u|^2 x_n^a\,d x +2\int_{B_1'} (\lambda_+ u^++\lambda_- u^-)\,d x', $$ for $a\in(-1,1)$. The problem arises in connection with heat flow with control on the boundary. It can also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-24 Mark Allen , Erik Lindgren , Arshak Petrosyan

We consider a Fisher-KPP-type equation, where both diffusion and nonlinear part are nonlocal, with anisotropic probability kernels. Under minimal conditions on the coefficients, we prove existence, uniqueness, and uniform space-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

We study the Muskat problem for one fluid in arbitrary dimension, bounded below by a flat bed and above by a free boundary given as a graph. In addition to a fixed uniform gravitational field, the fluid is acted upon by a generic force…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Huy Q. Nguyen , Ian Tice

This paper is devoted to the investigation of spatial spreading speeds and traveling wave solutions of monostable evolution equations with nonlocal dispersal in time and space periodic habitats. It has been shown in an earlier work by the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Nar Rawal , Wenxian Shen , Aijun Zhang

e study the minimal wave speed and the asymptotics of the traveling wave solutions of a competitive Lotka Volterra system. The existence of the traveling wave solutions is derived by monotone iteration. The asymptotic behaviors of the wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-16 Xiaojie Hou