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Reaction-nonlinear diffusion partial differential equations can exhibit shock-fronted travelling wave solutions. Prior work by Yi et. al. (2021) has demonstrated the existence of such waves for two classes of regularisations, including…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Ian Lizarraga , Robert Marangell

We consider a one-dimensional Swift-Hohenberg equation coupled to a conservation law, where both equations contain additional dispersive terms breaking the reflection symmetry $x \mapsto -x$. This system exhibits a Turing instability and we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Bastian Hilder

{We study a model of small-amplitude traveling waves arising in a supercritical Hopf-bifurcation, that are coupled to a slowly varying, real field. The field is advected by the waves and, in turn, affects their stability via a coupling to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Alex Roxin , Hermann Riecke

We study two systems of reaction diffusion equations with monostable or bistable type of nonlinearity and with free boundaries. These systems are used as multi-species competitive model. For two-species models, we prove the existence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Jian Yang , Bendong Lou

Previously, a series of tidally-excited oscillations were discovered in the eccentric eclipsing binary KIC 3230227. The pulsation amplitudes and phases suggest the observed oscillations are prograde quadruple modes. In this paper, we refine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Zhao Guo

In traffic flow, self-organized wave propagation, which characterizes congestion, has been reproduced in macroscopic and microscopic models. Hydrodynamic models, a subset of macroscopic models, can be derived from microscopic-level…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Kota Ikeda , Toru Kan , Toshiyuki Ogawa

We study Class-I excitable $1$-dimensional media showing the appearance of propagating traveling pulses. We consider a general model exhibiting Class-I excitability mediated by two different scenarios: a homoclinic (saddle-loop) and a SNIC…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-12-01 Andreu Arinyo-i-Prats , Pablo Moreno-Spiegelberg , Manuel A. Matías , Damià Gomila

In this work, we provide two complementary perspectives for the (spectral) stability of solitary traveling waves in Hamiltonian nonlinear dynamical lattices, of which the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam and the Toda lattice are prototypical examples. One…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-20 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Vainchtein , H. Xu

The interplay between 1D traveling pulses with oscillatory tails (TPO) and heterogeneities of bump type is studied for a generalized three-component FitzHugh-Nagumo equation. First, we present that stationary pulses with oscillatory tails…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Yasumasa Nishiura , Takeshi Watanabe

Traveling wave charges lying on the insulating walls of an electrolyte-filled capillary, give rise to oscillatory modes which vanish when averaged over the period of oscillation. They also give rise to a \emph{zero mode} (a unidirectional,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-02 A. Shrestha , E. Kirkinis , M. Olvera de la Cruz

The spectral problem associated with the linearization about solitary waves of spinor systems or optical coupled mode equations supporting gap solitons is formulated in terms of the Evans function, a complex analytic function whose zeros…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gianne Derks , Georg A. Gottwald

We study a simple extended model of oscillator neural networks capable of storing sparsely coded phase patterns, in which information is encoded both in the mean firing rate and in the timing of spikes. Applying the methods of statistical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Masaki Nomura , Toshio Aoyagi

It is well known that the addition of noise in a multistable system can induce random transitions between stable states. The rate of transition can be characterised in terms of the noise-free system's dynamics and the added noise: for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-25 Jennifer Creaser , Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova , Peter Ashwin

This paper investigates the stability of interfacial long waves in two-layer plane Couette flow using a nonlinear, nonlocal asymptotic model derived from the Navier-Stokes equations and valid for thin upper layers. Nonlocality enters…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-17 Xingyu Wang , Pierre Germain , Demetrios T. Papageorgiou

Discrete nonlinear systems support a rich variety of localized and extended wave phenomena, with their dynamics sensitively dependent on the symmetries of the underlying interaction forces within the lattice. Odd elasticity, emerging in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-20 Andrus Giraldo , Stefan Ruschel , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

A unified geometric approach for the stability analysis of traveling pulse solutions for reaction-diffusion equations with skew-gradient structure has been established in a previous paper [9], but essentially no results have been found in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Qin Xing

We investigate a new class of topological travelling-wave solutions for a macroscopipc swarmalator model involving force non-reciprocity. Swarmalators are systems of self-propelled particles endowed with a phase variable. The particles are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Pierre Degond , Antoine Diez

We analyse the stability of periodic, travelling-wave solutions to the Kawahara equation and some of its generalizations. We determine the parameter regime for which these solutions can exhibit resonance. By examining perturbations of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-06-25 O. Trichtchenko , B. Deconinck , R. Kollar

We examine the effects of stochastic input currents on the firing behavior of two excitable neurons coupled with fast excitatory synapses. In such cells (models), typified by the quadratic integrate and fire model, mutual synaptic coupling…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-07-31 Boris S. Gutkin , Juergen Jost , Henry C. Tuckwell

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