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A multiscale analysis of 1D stochastic bistable reaction-diffusion equations with additive noise is carried out w.r.t. travelling waves within the variational approach to stochastic partial differential equations. It is shown with explicit…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-11 Jennifer Krüger , Wilhelm Stannat

Specific solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, such as the Peregrine breather, are considered to be prototypes of extreme or freak waves in the oceans. An important question is, whether these solutions also exist in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-09-27 Leo Dostal , Marten Hollm , Edwin Kreuzer

Active droplets swim as a result of the nonlinear advective coupling of the distribution of chemical species they consume or release with the Marangoni flows created by their non-uniform surface distribution. Most existing models focus on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-15 Kevin Lippera , Matvey Morozov , Michael Benzaquen , Sébastien Michelin

The problem of propagating nonlinear acoustic waves is considered; the solution to which, both with and without damping, having been obtained to-date starting from the Navier-Stokes-Duhem equations together with the continuity and thermal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Markus Scholle

We investigate a family of peakon equations, labelled by two parameters $b$ and $\kappa$, all of which admit one-peakon solutions in a unified form. The well known Camassa-Holm equation and Degasperis-Procesi equation are derived from the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-08-08 Qilao Zha

To show that steadily propagating nonlinear waves in active matter can be driven internally, we develop a prototypical model of a topological kink moving with a constant supersonic speed. We use a model of a bi-stable mass-spring (FPU)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-01 Nikolai Gorbushin , Lev Truskinovsky

A new asymptotic method is presented for the analysis of the traveling waves in the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system with the diffusion with a finite velocity and Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov kinetics. The analysis makes use of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Fedotov

wave solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations. We simplify the so called (G'/G)-expansion method and apply two of those methods to simple physical problems.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 Francisco M. Fernandez

Instabilities driven by strong gradients appear in a wide variety of physical systems, including plasmas, neutral fluids, and self-gravitating systems. This work develops an analytic formulation to describe the transport structure and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Emma G. Devin , Vinícius N. Duarte

Active (i.e., self-propelled or swimming) particles moving through an isotropic fluid exhibit conventional diffusive behavior. We report anomalous diffusion of an active particle moving in an anisotropic, nematic background. Whilst the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-22 John Toner , Hartmut Löwen , Henricus H. Wensink

We consider a quasilinear KdV equation that admits compactly supported traveling wave solutions (compactons). This model is one of the most straightforward instances of degenerate dispersion, a phenomenon that appears in a variety of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Pierre Germain , Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths , Jeremy Marzuola

We study general aspects of active motion with fluctuations in the speed and the direction of motion in two dimensions. We consider the case in which fluctuations in the speed are not correlated to fluctuations in the direction of motion,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando Peruani , Luis G. Morelli

The nonlinear collisional dynamics of coupled driven plasma waves in the presence of background dissipation is studied analytically within kinetic theory. Sufficiently near marginal stability, phase space correlations are poorly preserved…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 N. M. Pham , V. N. Duarte

This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions of a reaction-diffusion equation with state-dependent delay. When the birth function is monotone, the existence and nonexistence of monotone traveling wave solutions are established.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Guo Lin , Haiyan Wang

In this work, we are concerned with a nonlinear wave equation with variable exponents. A distributive delay is imposed into the damping term with variable exponents nonlinearity. Firstly, we show that the global nonexistence time can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Mohammad Kafini

We present a method to control the two-dimensional shape of traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion systems, as e.g. interfaces and excitation pulses. Control signals that realize a pre-given wave shape are determined analytically…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-12-15 Jakob Löber , Steffen Martens , Harald Engel

We prove the existence and uniqueness of a family of travelling waves in a degenerate (or singular) quasilinear parabolic problem that may be regarded as a generalization of the semilinear Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovski-Piscounov equation for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-02-18 Pavel Drabek , Peter Takac

We consider the diffusion of independent particles experiencing random accelerations by a space- and time-dependent force as well as viscous damping. This model can exhibit several asymptotic behaviours, depending upon the limiting cases…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-13 B. Mehlig , M. Wilkinson , V. Bezuglyy , K. Gustavsson , K. Nakamura

In this paper we consider an acoustic problem of wave propagation through a discontinuous medium. The problem is reduced to the dissipative wave equation with distributional dissipation. We show that this problem has a so-called very weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Juan Carlos Munoz , Michael Ruzhansky , Niyaz Tokmagambetov

We study the behavior of perturbations in a compressible one-dimensional inviscid gas with an ambient state consisting of constant pressure and periodically-varying density. We show through asymptotic analysis that long-wavelength…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-27 David I. Ketcheson , Giovanni Russo