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We obtain exact traveling-wave solutions of the coupled nonlinear partial differential equations that describe the dynamics of two classical scalar fields in 1+1 dimensions. The solutions are kinks interpolating between neighboring vacua.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-04-23 Hosho Katsura

In this paper, we identify criteria that guarantees the nonlinear orbital stability of a given periodic traveling wave solution within the b-family Camassa-Holm equation. These periodic waves exist as 3-parameter families (up to spatial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Brett Ehrman , Mathew A. Johnson

A highly nonlinear, fourth-order wave equation that models the continuum theory of long wavelength pulses in weakly compressed, discrete, homogeneous chains with a general power-law contact interaction is studied. For this wave equation,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Michelle Przedborski , Stephen C. Anco

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

In this paper we employ two recent analytical approaches to investigate the possible classes of traveling wave solutions of some members of a recently-derived integrable family of generalized Camassa-Holm (GCH) equations. A recent, novel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 T. Rehman , G. Gambino , S. Roy Choudhury

Under the traveling wave transformation, Camassa-Holm equation with dispersion is reduced to an integrable ODE whose general solution can be obtained using the trick of one-parameter group. Furthermore combining complete discrimination…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 Chengshi Liu

In the framework of hyperbolic conservation laws regularised by including diffusive and dispersive terms, we study monotone travelling waves for the generalised Rosenau-Korteweg de Vries equation. We establish existence as well as linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Gnord Maypaokha , Nabil Bedjaoui , Joaquim M. C. Correia , Michael Grinfeld

Recently, the Whitham and capillary-Whitham equations were shown to accurately model the evolution of surface waves on shallow water. In order to gain a deeper understanding of these equations, we compute periodic, traveling-wave solutions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-01 John D. Carter , Morgan Rozman

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

This note investigates the properties of the traveling waves solutions of the nonlocal Fisher equation. The existence of such solutions has been proved recently in \cite{BNPR} but their asymptotic behavior was still unclear. We use here a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-11-24 Gregoire Nadin , Benoit Perthame , Min Tang

We derive parametric travelling-wave solutions of non-linear QCD equations. They describe the evolution towards saturation in the geometric scaling region. The method, based on an expansion in the inverse of the wave velocity, leads to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Peschanski

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

New travelling wave solutions to the Fornberg-Whitham equation are investigated. They are characterized by two parameters. The expresssions for the periodic and solitary wave solutions are obtained.

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-08-07 Jiangbo Zhou , Lixin Tian

We study stability of travelling wave solutions to Korteweg--de Vries type equations which has the fractional dispersion and integer-indices double power nonlinearities. It may depend on parity combinations of the two indices and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Kaito Kokubu

By a bifurcation argument we prove that the capillary-gravity Whitham equation features asymmetrical periodic travelling wave solution of arbitrarily small amplitude. Such waves exist only in the weak surface tension regime…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Ola Mæhlen , Douglas Svensson Seth

We study the boundary value problem for nonlinear fourth-order partial differential equation with jumping nonlinearity which can serve, e.g., as a model of an asymmetrically supported bending beam. We focus on a special type of solutions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Hana Formánková Levá , Gabriela Holubová

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

This paper is concerned with the global stability of non-critical/critical traveling waves with oscillations for time-delayed nonlocal dispersion equations. We first theoretically prove that all traveling waves, especially the critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Tianyuan Xu , Shanming Ji , Rui Huang , Ming Mei , Jingxue Yin

We use a geometric approach to prove the existence of smooth travelling wave solutions of a nonlinear diffusion-reaction equation with logistic kinetics and a convex nonlinear diffusivity function which changes sign twice in our domain of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Yifei Li , Peter van Heijster , Robert Marangell , Matthew J. Simpson

Existence and bifurcation results are derived for quasi periodic traveling waves of discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equations with nonlocal interactions and with polynomial type potentials. Variational tools are used. Several concrete…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-09-11 Michal Feckan , Vassilis Rothos