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The topic of this paper are nonlinear traveling waves occuring in a system of damped waves equations in one space variable. We extend the freezing method from first to second order equations in time. When applied to a Cauchy problem, this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Wolf-Jürgen Beyn , Denny Otten , Jens Rottmann-Matthes

In this paper we revisit the existence of traveling waves for delayed reaction diffusion equations by the monotone iteration method. We show that Perron Theorem on existence of bounded solution provides a rigorous and constructive framework…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-01-08 Amin Boumenir , Nguyen Van Minh

We investigate a one-dimensional nonlinear wave system which arises from a variational principle modeling a type of cholesteric liquid crystals. The problem treated here is the Cauchy problem for the same wave speed case with initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Yanbo Hu , Huijuan Song

In this paper we consider three different 1D parabolic-parabolic systems of chemotaxis. For these systems we obtain the exact analytical solutions in terms of traveling wave variables.

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-10-17 Maria Shubina

The vertical transport of solid material in a stratified medium is fundamental to a number of environmental applications, with implications for the carbon cycle and nutrient transport in marine ecosystems. In this work, we study the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-05 Robert Hunt , Roberto Camassa , Richard M. McLaughlin , Daniel M. Harris

We investigate travelling wave solutions in reaction-diffusion models of animal range expansion in the case that population diffusion is density-dependent. We find that the speed of the selected wave depends critically on the strength of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-19 Beth M. Stokes , Tim Rogers , Richard James

In this paper the travelling wave solutions in the adiabatic model with two-step chain branching reaction mechanism are investigated both numerically and analytically in the limit of equal diffusivity of reactant, radicals and heat. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 V. V. Gubernov , H. S. Sidhu , G. N. Mercer

Lucas and Moll have proposed a system of forward-backward partial differential equations that model knowledge diffusion and economic growth. It arises from a microscopic model of learning for a mean-field type interacting system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-22 George Papanicolaou , Lenya Ryzhik , Katerina Velcheva

We study a singular diffusive prey-predator system with nonlocal dispersal for which the carrying capacity of the predator is proportional to the density of prey. We show the existence of positive one-dimensional traveling waves connecting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Jong-Shenq Guo , François Hamel , Chin-Chin Wu

We investigate the connection between the existence of an explicit travelling wave solution and the travelling wave with minimal speed in a scalar monostable reaction-diffusion equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Elaine C. M. Crooks , Michael Grinfeld

In this paper we consider a chemotaxis system with signal consumption and degenerate diffusion of the form \begin{align*} \left\lbrace \begin{array}{r@{}l@{\quad}l} &u_t=\nabla\cdot\big(D(u)\nabla u-uS(u)\nabla v\big)+f(u,v),\\ &v_t=\Delta…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Tobias Black

In this paper, we address the motion of charged particles subjected to a discrete spectrum of electrostatic waves. We focus on situations when transport dominates, leading to significant variations in particle velocity. Nonetheless, these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Didier Bénisti

We prove the existence of periodic travelling wave solutions for general discrete nonlinear Klein-Gordon systems, considering both cases of hard and soft on-site potentials. In the case of hard on-site potentials we implement a fixed point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Dirk Hennig , Nikos I. Karachalios

We calculate exactly the velocity and diffusion constant of a microscopic stochastic model of $N$ evolving particles which can be described by a noisy traveling wave equation with a noise of order $N^{-1/2}$. Our model can be viewed as the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric Brunet , Bernard Derrida

It has been reported that traveling waves propagate periodically and stably in sub-excitable systems driven by noise [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{88}, 138301 (2002)]. As a further investigation, here we observe different types of traveling…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-01-17 Fen-Ni Si , Quan-Xing Liu , Jin-Zhong Zhang , Lu-Qun Zhou

In this paper, we study a nutrient-taxis model with porous medium slow diffusion \begin{align*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} &u_t=\Delta u^m-\chi\nabla\cdot(u\nabla v)+\xi uv-\rho u, \\ &v_t-\Delta v=-vu+\mu v(1-v), \end{aligned}\right.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Chunhua Jin , Yifu Wang , Jingxue Yin

We establish the existence of quasi-periodic traveling wave solutions for the $\beta$-plane equation on $\mathbb{T}^2$ with a large quasi-periodic traveling wave external force. These solutions exhibit large sizes, which depend on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Roberta Bianchini , Luca Franzoi , Riccardo Montalto , Shulamit Terracina

We investigate the propagating profiles of a degenerate chemotaxis model describing the bacteria chemotaxis and consumption of oxygen by aerobic bacteria, in particular, the effect of the initial attractant distribution on bacterial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Tianyuan Xu , Shanming Ji , Ming Mei , Jingxue Yin

We investigate traveling wave solutions in the two-species reaction-diffusion Lotka-Volterra competition system under weak competition. For the strict weak competition regime $(b<a<1/c,\,d>0)$, we construct refined upper and lower solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Chiun-Chuan Chen , Ting-Yang Hsiao , Shun-Chieh Wang

We consider reaction-diffusion equations that are stochastically forced by a small multiplicative noise term. We show that spectrally stable travelling wave solutions to the deterministic system retain their orbital stability if the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-09 C. H. S. Hamster , H. J. Hupkes