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Traveling waves are ubiquitous in nature and control the speed of many important dynamical processes, including chemical reactions, epidemic outbreaks, and biological evolution. Despite their fundamental role in complex systems, traveling…

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We study the existence of traveling waves of reaction-diffusion systems with delays in both diffusion and reaction terms of the form $\partial u(x,t)/\partial t = \Delta u(x,t-\tau_1)+f(u(x,t),u(x,t-\tau_2))$, where $\tau_1,\tau_2$ are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-23 William Barker , Nguyen Van Minh

This paper presents a pioneering investigation into the existence of traveling wave solutions for the two-dimensional Euler equations with constant vorticity in a curved annular domain, where gravity acts radially inward. This configuration…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Liang Li , Quan Wang

Proposed in this paper is a numerical procedure to generate periodic traveling wave solutions of some nonlinear dispersive wave equations. The method is based on a suitable modification of a fixed point algorithm of Petviahvili type and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-22 J. Alvarez , A. Duran

In this paper we consider a scalar parabolic equation on a star graph; the model is quite general but what we have in mind is the description of traffic flows at a crossroad. In particular, we do not necessarily require the continuity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-30 Andrea Corli , Lorenzo Di Ruvo , Luisa Malaguti , Massimiliano Rosini

In this work, we study the nonlinear traveling waves in density stratified fluids with depth varying shear currents. Beginning the formulation of the water-wave problem due to [1], we extend the work of [4] and [18] to examine the interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-30 K. L. Oliveras , C. W. Curtis

We propose a simple algebraic method for generating classes of traveling wave solutions for a variety of partial differential equations of current interest in nonlinear science. This procedure applies equally well to equations which may or…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-04-20 Dionisio Bazeia , Ashok Das , Laercio Losano , Mauro Jose dos Santos

The notion of traveling wave, which typically refers to some particular spatio-temporal con- nections between two stationary states (typically, entire solutions keeping the same profile's shape through time), is essential in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Thomas Giletti

The current paper is devoted to the study of traveling wave solutions of the following parabolic-parabolic chemotaxis systems, $$ \begin{cases} u_{t}= \Delta u-\chi \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v) + u(a-bu),\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^N \tau v_t=\Delta…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Rachidi B. Salako , Wenxian Shen

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Yu Gao , Lei Li , Jian-Guo Liu

We use a simple method that leads to the integrals involved in obtaining the traveling wave solutions of wave equations with one and two exponential nonlinearities. When the constant term in the integrand is zero, implicit solutions in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 S. C. Mancas , H. C. Rosu , M. Perez-Maldonado

We analyze travelling wave (TW) solutions for nonlinear systems consisting of an ODE coupled to a degenerate PDE with a diffusion coefficient that vanishes as the solution tends to zero and blows up as it approaches its maximum value.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Koondanibha Mitra , Jack M. Hughes , Stefanie Sonner , Hermann J. Eberl , Jack D. Dockery

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

Long-distance transmission of energy by waves is a key mechanism for many natural processes. It becomes possible when the inhomogeneous medium is arranged in such a manner that it enables a specific type of waves to propagate with virtually…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-18 Semyon Churilov

We develop a method to design tunable quasiperiodic structures of particles suspended in a fluid by controlling standing acoustic waves. One application of our results is to ultrasound directed self-assembly, which allows fabricating…

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Lubrication equations for a surfactant-driven flow of a thin layer of fluid are considered with a singular surfactant-dependent surface tension. It is shown that there exists a bounded traveling wave solution which connects a fully…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Joachim Escher , Matthieu Hillairet , Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

In classical continuum physics, a wave is a mechanical disturbance. Whether the disturbance is stationary or traveling and whether it is caused by the motion of atoms and molecules or the vibration of a lattice structure, a wave can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-14 Ivan C. Christov

We consider a free boundary model of epithelial cell migration with logistic growth and nonlinear diffusion induced by mechanical interactions. Using numerical simulations, phase plane and perturbation analysis, we find and analyse…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-05 Ryan J Murphy , Pascal R Buenzli , Ruth E Baker , Matthew J Simpson

The diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) lattice is an infinite chain of alternating particles connected by identical nonlinear springs. We prove the existence of micropteron traveling waves in the diatomic FPUT lattice in the limit as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Timothy E. Faver , Hermen Jan Hupkes

We propose a novel method for establishing the convergence rates of solutions to reaction-diffusion equations to traveling waves. The analysis is based on the study of the traveling wave shape defect function introduced in [2]. It turns out…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Jing An , Christopher Henderson , Lenya Ryzhik