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New travelling wave solutions to the Fornberg-Whitham equation are investigated. They are characterized by two parameters. The expresssions for the periodic and solitary wave solutions are obtained.
We study traveling wave solutions of the nonlinear variational wave equation. In particular, we show how to obtain global, bounded, weak traveling wave solutions from local, classical ones. The resulting waves consist of monotone and…
The Fornberg-Whitham (FW) equation was introduced by Fornberg and Whitham [Fornberg and Whitham, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A (1978)] as a nonlocal model for unidirectional shallow water waves capable of capturing wave steepening and…
In this paper, by using bifurcation method, we successfully find the Fornberg-Whitham equation has a type of traveling wave solutions called kink-like wave solutions and antikinklike wave solutions. They are defined on some semifinal…
Existence of non-negative weak solutions is shown for a full curvature thin-film model of a liquid thin film flowing down a vertical fibre. The proof is based on the application of a priori estimates derived for energy-entropy functionals.…
Spatially periodic solutions of the Fornberg-Whitham equation are studied to illustrate the mechanism of wave breaking and the formation of shocks for a large class of initial data. We show that these solutions can be considered to be weak…
We discuss concepts and review results about the Cauchy problem for the Fornberg-Whitham equation, which has also been called Burgers-Poisson equation in the literature. Our focus is on a comparison of various strong and weak solution…
This paper reports results on the classification of traveling wave solutions, including nonnegative weak sense, in the spatial 1D degenerate parabolic equation. These are obtained through dynamical systems theory and geometric approaches…
Recently, the Whitham and capillary-Whitham equations were shown to accurately model the evolution of surface waves on shallow water. In order to gain a deeper understanding of these equations, we compute periodic, traveling-wave solutions…
Whitham modulation theory describes the zero dispersion limit of nonlinear waves by a system of conservation laws for the parameters of modulated periodic traveling waves. Here, admissible, discontinuous, weak solutions of the Whitham…
In this paper, we study traveling wave solutions and peakon weak solutions of the modified Camassa-Holm (mCH) equation with dispersive term $2ku_x$ for $k\in\mathbb{R}$. We study traveling wave solutions through a Hamiltonian system…
We use a geometric approach to prove the existence of smooth travelling wave solutions of a nonlinear diffusion-reaction equation with logistic kinetics and a convex nonlinear diffusivity function which changes sign twice in our domain of…
By a bifurcation argument we prove that the capillary-gravity Whitham equation features asymmetrical periodic travelling wave solution of arbitrarily small amplitude. Such waves exist only in the weak surface tension regime…
In this article, we provide an alternative way to construct small amplitude traveling waves for general Whitham type equations, in both periodic and whole line contexts. More specifically, Fourier analysis techniques allow us to reformulate…
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…
The present paper is concerned with the existence of traveling wave solutions of the asymptotic model, derived by the authors in a previous work, to approximate the unidirectional evolution of a collision-free plasma in a magnetic field.…
This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions for integro-difference systems of higher order. By using Schauder fixed point theorem, the existence of traveling wave solutions is reduced to the existence of generalized upper and…
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…
We study the traveling wave solutions of the Burgers-Huxley equation from a geometric point of view via the qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations. By using the Poincar\'e compactification we study the global phase portraits…
In this paper we establish the orbital stability of periodic traveling waves for a general class of dispersive equations. We use the Implicit Function Theorem to guarantee the existence of smooth solutions depending of the corresponding…