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Using a new method of monotone iteration of a pair of smooth lower- and upper-solutions, the traveling wave solutions of the classical Lotka-Volterra system are shown to exist for a family of wave speeds. Such constructed upper and lower…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-10 Anthony W Leung , Xiaojie Hou , Wei Feng

We study travelling waves on a two--dimensional lattice with linear and nonlinear coupling between nearest particles and a periodic nonlinear substrate potential. Such a discrete system can model molecules adsorbed on a substrate crystal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Michal Feckan , Vassilis M. Rothos

A non-local evolution equation of the Camassa-Holm type with dissipation is considered. The local well-posedness of the solutions of the Cauchy problem involving the equation is established via Kato's approach and the wave breaking scenario…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Igor Leite Freire , Nazime Sales Filho , Ligia Corrêa de Souza , Carlos Eduardo Toffoli

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

This paper concerns the existence and properties of traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion-convection equations on the real line. We consider a general diffusion term involving the $p$-Laplacian and combustion-type reaction term. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Pavel Drábek , Michaela Zahradníková

Stability of travelling waves for the Nagumo equation on the whole line is proven using a new approach via functional inequalities and an implicitely defined phase adaption. The approach can be carried over to obtain pathwise stability of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-13 Wilhelm Stannat

We study travelling wave solutions to Korteweg--de Vries type equations which have double power nonlinearities with integer indices, such as the Gardner equation, and fractional dispersion. Whether these equations have ground state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Kaito Kokubu

In this paper we consider the spectral and nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of a generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. In particular, we resolve the long-standing question of nonlinear modulational stability by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

We investigate the presence of soliton solutions in some classes of nonlinear partial differential equations, namely generalized Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers, Korteveg-de Vries-Huxley, and Korteveg-de Vries-Burgers-Huxley equations, which…

solv-int · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Bazeia , E. P. Raposo

The present paper is concerned with the existence of traveling wave solutions of the asymptotic model, derived by the authors in a previous work, to approximate the unidirectional evolution of a collision-free plasma in a magnetic field.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Diego Alonso-Orán , Angel Durán , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

We give an exhaustive characterization of singular weak solutions for ordinary differential equations of the form $\ddot{u}\,u + \frac{1}{2}\dot{u}^2 + F'(u) =0$, where $F$ is an analytic function. Our motivation stems from the fact that in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Anna Geyer , Víctor Mañosa

We consider a Fisher-KPP-type equation, where both diffusion and nonlinear part are nonlocal, with anisotropic probability kernels. Under minimal conditions on the coefficients, we prove existence, uniqueness, and uniform space-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Pasha Tkachov

Traveling modulating pulse solutions consist of a small amplitude pulse-like envelope moving with a constant speed and modulating a harmonic carrier wave. Such solutions can be approximated by solitons of an effective nonlinear Schrodinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Tomas Dohnal , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Guido Schneider

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

In this paper, we study the orbital stability for a four-parameter family of periodic stationary traveling wave solutions to the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation. In particular, we derive sufficient conditions for such a solution to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-09 Mathew A. Johnson

We examine the possibility of travelling wave solutions within the nonlinear Euler-Heisenberg electrodynamics. Since this theory resembles in its form the electrodynamics in matter, it is a priori not clear if there exist travelling wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-07 A. Bermudez Manjarres , Marek Nowakowski

We apply the method of simplest equation for obtaining exact solitary traveling-wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations that contain monomials of odd and even grade with respect to participating derivatives. We consider…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2014-09-22 Nikolay K. Vitanov , Zlatinka I. Dimitrova

This paper deals with the existence of travelling wave solutions for a general one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. We construct these solutions by minimizing the energy under the constraint of fixed momentum. We also prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Jordan Berthoumieu

In the present study, we revisit the theme of wave propagation in locally resonant granular crystal systems, also referred to as Mass-in-Mass systems. We use 3 distinct approaches to identify relevant traveling waves. The first consists of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 H. Xu , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Stefanov

We derive a new generalization of the nonlinear variational wave equation. We prove existence of local, smooth solutions for this system. As a limiting case, we recover the nonlinear variational wave equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Katrin Grunert , Audun Reigstad