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A regularized Boussinesq equation is studied as a dispersive, long-wave (quasicontinuum) approximation of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice with a general cubic interaction force. Explicit periodic traveling wave solutions in terms of Jacobi…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-14 Mark A. Hoefer , Anna Vainchtein

In this paper we consider a semilinear parabolic equation in an infinite cylinder. The spatially varying nonlinearity is such that it connects two (spatially independent) bistable nonlinearities in a compact set in space. We prove that,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Simon Eberle

In this note, we investigate a doubly nonlinear diffusion equation in the slow diffusion regime. We prove stability of the pressure of solutions that are close to traveling wave solutions in a homogeneous Lipschitz sense. We derive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Christian Seis , Dominik Winkler

The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of small-amplitude, unidirectional waves of all wavelengths on shallow water. It has been shown to accurately model the evolution of waves in laboratory experiments. We compute…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 John D. Carter

We investigate the existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions near monotonic shear flows with non-constant background density for the two-dimensional inhomogeneous Euler equations in a finite channel. For any small $\tau>0$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Qi Zhao , Weiren Zhao

In this article we investigate traveling wave solutions of a nonlinear differential equation describing the behaviour of one-dimensional viscoelastic medium with implicit constitutive relations. We focus on a subclass of such models known…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 H. A. Erbay , Y. Şengül

We study the existence and stability of periodic traveling-wave solutions for complex modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. We also discuss the problem of uniform continuity of the data-solution mapping.

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-10-30 Sevdzhan Hakkaev , Iliya D. Iliev , Kiril Kirchev

This paper deals with the existence, monotonicity, uniqueness and asymptotic behaviour of travelling wavefronts for a class of temporally delayed, spatially nonlocal diffusion equations.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Shangjiang Guo , Johannes Zimmer

In this paper we study solitary traveling wave solutions to a damped shallow water system, which is in general quasilinear and of mixed type. We develop a small data well-posedness theory and prove that traveling wave solutions are a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Noah Stevenson , Ian Tice

In this study, we analyze the behavior of monotone traveling waves of a one-dimensional porous medium equation modeling mechanical properties of living tissues. We are interested in the asymptotics where the pressure, which governs the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Anne-Laure Dalibard , Gabriela Lopez-Ruiz , Charlotte Perrin

We discuss the application of a variant of the method of simplest equation for obtaining exact traveling wave solutions of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations containing polynomial nonlinearities. As simplest equation we use…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-07-17 Nikolay K. Vitanov , Zlatinka I. Dimitrova , Kaloyan N. Vitanov

Given a nonlinear evolution equation in (1+n) dimensions, which has spatially extended traveling wave solutions, it can be extended into a system of two coupled equations, one of which generates the original traveling waves, and the other…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-12-07 Yair Zarmi

The traveling wave solutions to some nonlinear conformable time fractional partial differential equations in RLW-class are set up by using sech and csch ansatzs. The conformable time fractional forms of the equal-width (EW), regularized…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-05-18 Gokhan Koyunlu

This paper has various goals: first, we develop a local and global well-posedness theory for the regularized Benjamin-Ono equation in the periodic setting, second, we show that the Cauchy problem for this equation (in both periodic and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-04-30 Jaime Angulo , Marcia Scialom , Carlos Banquet

We study travelling wave solutions of a 1D continuum model for collective cell migration in which cells are characterised by position and polarity. Four different types of travelling wave solutions are identified which represent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Nizhum Rahman , Robert Marangell , Dietmar Oelz

How well do multisymplectic discretisations preserve travelling wave solutions? To answer this question, the 5-point central difference scheme is applied to the semi-linear wave equation. A travelling wave ansatz leads to an ordinary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Fleur McDonald , Robert I McLachlan , Brian E Moore , G R W Quispel

We prove wave breaking --- bounded solutions with unbounded derivatives --- in the nonlinear nonlocal equation which combines the dispersion relation of water waves and a nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, provided that the slope…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Vera Mikyoung Hur

We consider a lattice equation modelling one-dimensional metamaterials formed by a discrete array of nonlinear resonators. We focus on periodic travelling waves due to the presence of a periodic force. The existence and uniqueness results…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 M. Agaoglou , M. Feckan , M. Pospisil , V. M. Rothos , H. Susanto

We determine the stability and instability of a sufficiently small and periodic traveling wave to long wavelength perturbations, for a nonlinear dispersive equation which extends a Camassa-Holm equation to include all the dispersion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Ashish K. Pandey

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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