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Continuing our previous study \cite{DJKZ} on the monostable reaction-diffusion-convection equation, we analyze the bistable case under weak regularity assumptions. Our approach applies monostable results on the subintervals where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Pavel Drábek , Soyeun Jung , Eunkyung Ko , Michaela Zahradníková

We review the theory of modulation equations or Whitham equations for the travelling wave solution of KdV. We then apply the Whitham modulation equations to describe the long-time asymptotics and small dispersion asymptotics of the KdV…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Tamara Grava

A set of traveling wave solution to convection-reaction-diffusion equation is studied by means of methods of local nonlinear analysis and numerical simulation. It is shown the existence of compactly supported solutions as well as solitary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Vsevolod A. Vladimirov

In this note, we investigate a doubly nonlinear diffusion equation in the slow diffusion regime. We prove stability of the pressure of solutions that are close to traveling wave solutions in a homogeneous Lipschitz sense. We derive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Christian Seis , Dominik Winkler

Recently, Dyachenko & Zakharov (2011) have derived a compact form of the well known Zakharov integro-differential equation for the third order Hamiltonian dynamics of a potential flow of an incompressible, infinitely deep fluid with a free…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Francesco Fedele , Denys Dutykh

The travelling wave problem for a particular bidirectional Whitham system modelling surface water waves is under consideration. This system firstly appeared in [Dinvay, Dutykh, Kalisch 2018], where it was numerically shown to be stable and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Evgueni Dinvay , Dag Nilsson

We proved the existence and uniqueness of a traveling wave solution to the thin film equation with a Navier slip condition at the liquid-solid interface. We obtain explicit lower and upper bounds for the solution and an absolute error…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-05-08 Roman M. Taranets

We study the existence of traveling wave solutions to a unidirectional shallow water model which incorporates the full linear dispersion relation for both gravitational and capillary restoring forces. Using functional analytic techniques,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Mathew A. Johnson , J. Douglas Wright

This paper concerns wave propagation in a class of scalar reaction-diffusion-convection equations with $p$-Laplacian-type diffusion and monostable reaction. We introduce a new concept of a non-smooth traveling wave profile, which allows us…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Pavel Drábek , Soyeun Jung , Eunkyung Ko , Michaela Zahradníková

In the present work, we revisit the so-called regularized short pulse equation (RSPE) and, in particular, explore the traveling wave solutions of this model. We theoretically analyze and numerically evolve two sets of such solutions. First,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 Y. Shen , T. P. Horikis , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We study modulational stability and instability in the Whitham equation, combining the dispersion relation of water waves and a nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, and modified to permit the effects of surface tension and constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

We present in closed form some special travelling-wave solutions (on the real line or on the circle) of a perturbed sine-Gordon equation. The perturbation of the equation consists of a constant forcing term $\gamma$ and a linear dissipative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-28 Gaetano Fiore

This paper is concerned with the existence of traveling wave solutions for diffusive two-species Lotka-Volterra systems with delay in both the reaction and diffusion terms without monotonicity. We extend the partial or cross monotone…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-21 William Barker

We discuss a notion of weak solution for a semilinear wave equation that models the interaction of an elastic body with a rigid substrate through an adhesive layer, relying on results in [2]. Our analysis embraces the vector-valued case in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Mauro Bonafini , Van Phu Cuong Le

This paper deals with the existence of travelling wave solutions for a general one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. We construct these solutions by minimizing the energy under the constraint of fixed momentum. We also prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Jordan Berthoumieu

We derive the Whitham modulation equations for the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation via a multiple scales expansion and averaging two conservation laws over one oscillation period of its periodic traveling wave solutions. We then use the Whitham…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-11-12 Gino Biondini , Alexander Chernyavsky

In this short note, we derive a system of two nonlocal equations for the water-wave problem following the work of [AFM06]. Specifically, we consider a fluid with a one-dimensional free surface for an irrotational fluid both with, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-04 KL Oliveras

We analyze the spectral stability of small-amplitude, periodic, traveling-wave solutions of a Boussinesq-Whitham system. These solutions are shown numerically to exhibit high-frequency instabilities when subject to bounded perturbations on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Ryan Creedon , Bernard Deconinck , Olga Trichtchenko

We look for traveling wave solutions to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a subsonic speed, covering several physical models with Sobolev subcritical nonlinear effects. Our approach is based on a variant of Sobolev-type inequality…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Laura Baldelli , Bartosz Bieganowski , Jarosław Mederski

We find an explicit form of weak solutions to a Riemann problem for a degenerate semilinear parabolic equation with piecewise constant diffusion coefficient. It is demonstrated that the phase transition lines (free boundaries) correspond to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Evgeny Yu. Panov