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We study stability of travelling wave solutions to Korteweg--de Vries type equations which has the fractional dispersion and integer-indices double power nonlinearities. It may depend on parity combinations of the two indices and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Kaito Kokubu

We study an integro-differential equation that describes the slow erosion of granular flow. The equation is a first order non-linear conservation law where the flux function includes an integral term. We show that there exist unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-20 Graziano Guerra , Wen Shen

We study traveling wave solutions of an equation for surface waves of moderate amplitude arising as a shallow water approximation of the Euler equations for inviscid, incompressible and homogenous fluids. We obtain solitary waves of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Armengol Gasull , Anna Geyer

Motivated by earlier studies of artificial perceptions of light called phosphenes, we analyze traveling wave solutions in a chain of periodically forced coupled nonlinear oscillators modeling this phenomenon. We examine the discrete model…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-20 Mei Duanmu , Nathaniel Whitaker , Panos Kevrekidis , Anna Vainchtein , Jonathan Rubin

This article produces wave equations and constructs traveling wave solutions that are intimately related to Newton's equations of celestial mechanics. The traveling wave solutions are expressed in ``closed form'' in terms of elementary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Harry Gingold , Jocelyn Quaintance

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Ángel Castro , Diego Córdoba , Fan Zheng

In this paper, we consider the Fornberg-Whitham equation and a family of solitary wave solutions is found by using minimization principle, where a related penalization function and the concentration-compactness lemma play a key role in our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Yong Zhang , Fei Xu , Fengquan Li

In this paper, we investigate the instability of the spherical travelling wave solutions for the Transport-Stokes system in $\mathbb{R}^3$. First, a classical scaling argument ensures instability among all probability measures for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Matthieu Bonnivard , Amina Mecherbet

In this paper, we employ the bifurcation method of dynamical systems to investigate the exact travelling wave solutions for the Fornberg-Whitham equation. The implicit expression for solitons is given. The explicit expressions for peakons…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-08-07 Jiangbo Zhou , Lixin Tian

For the Allen-Cahn equation, it is well known that there is a monotone standing wave joining with the balanced wells of the potential. In this paper we study the existence of traveling wave solutions for the Allen-Cahn equation on an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Chao-Nien Chen , Vittorio Coti Zelati

The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of small-amplitude, unidirectional waves of all wavelengths on shallow water. It has been shown to accurately model the evolution of waves in laboratory experiments. We compute…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 John D. Carter

We give an exhaustive characterization of singular weak solutions for ordinary differential equations of the form $\ddot{u}\,u + \frac{1}{2}\dot{u}^2 + F'(u) =0$, where $F$ is an analytic function. Our motivation stems from the fact that in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Anna Geyer , Víctor Mañosa

Using the method of sub-super-solution, we construct a solution of $(-\Delta)^su-cu_z-f(u)=0$ on $\R^3$ of pyramidal shape. Here $(-\Delta)^s$ is the fractional Laplacian of sub-critical order $1/2<s<1$ and $f$ is a bistable nonlinearity.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-07 Hardy Chan , Juncheng Wei

We consider traveling fronts to the nonlocal bistable equation. We do not assume that the Borel-measure is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure. We show that there is a traveling wave solution with monotone profile. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-21 Hiroki Yagisita

Weakly-nonlinear waves in a layered waveguide with an imperfect interface (soft bonding between the layers) can be modelled using coupled Boussinesq equations. We assume that the materials of the layers have close mechanical properties, in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-11-01 K. R. Khusnutdinova , M. R. Tranter

Constrained gradient flows are studied in fracture mechanics to describe strongly irreversible (or unidirectional) evolution of cracks. The present paper is devoted to a study on the long-time behavior of non-compact orbits of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Goro Akagi , Christian Kuehn , Ken-Ichi Nakamura

A regularized Boussinesq equation is studied as a dispersive, long-wave (quasicontinuum) approximation of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice with a general cubic interaction force. Explicit periodic traveling wave solutions in terms of Jacobi…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-14 Mark A. Hoefer , Anna Vainchtein

We prove existence of weak solutions (in the probabilistic sense) for a general class of stochastic semilinear wave equations on bounded domains of $R^d$ driven by a possibly discontinuous square integrable martingale.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-08 Carlo Marinelli , Lluís Quer-Sardanyons

We study the existence and stability of periodic traveling-wave solutions for complex modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. We also discuss the problem of uniform continuity of the data-solution mapping.

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-10-30 Sevdzhan Hakkaev , Iliya D. Iliev , Kiril Kirchev

The existence of nonzero periodic travelling wave solutions for a general discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (DNLS) on finite one-dimensional lattices is proved. The DNLS features a general nonlinear term and variable range of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Dirk Hennig