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Space time fractional nonlinear evolution equations have been widely applied for describing various types of physical mechanism of natural phenomena in mathematical physics and engineering. The proposed generalized exp expansion method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-03 M. G. Hafez , Dianchen Lu

It is well recognized that in auxiliary equation methods, the exact solutions of different types of auxiliary equations may produce new types of exact travelling wave solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations in hand. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-09 Zehra Pinar , Turgut Ozis

We prove the existence of a traveling wave solution for a boundary reaction diffusion equation when the reaction term is the combustion nonlinearity with ignition temperature. A key role in the proof is plaid by an explicit formula for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-25 L. Caffarelli , A. Mellet , Y. Sire

In this paper, by using bifurcation method, we successfully find the Fornberg-Whitham equation has a type of traveling wave solutions called kink-like wave solutions and antikinklike wave solutions. They are defined on some semifinal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-07-31 Jiangbo Zhou , Lixin Tian

We obtain a travelling-wave solution of a generalised nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an additional term of the form $\Gamma(\psi(x,t)) = \lambda \psi(x,t)^q$, where $\lambda$ and $q$ are real constants. Moreover, we show that the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-12-02 M. A. Rego-Monteiro

We consider persistence properties of solutions for a generalised wave equation including vibration in elastic rods and shallow water models, such as the BBM, the Dai's, the Camassa-Holm, and the Dullin-Gottwald-Holm equations, as well as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Igor Leite Freire

We establish the nonlinear stability of solitary waves (solitons) and periodic traveling wave solutions (cnoidal waves) for a Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation which includes a fifth order dispersive term. The traveling wave solutions which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Ronald Adams , Stefan C. Mancas

We consider the one-dimensional KPP-equation driven by space-time white noise and extend the construction of travelling wave solutions arising from Heavyside initial data from [Tribe, 1996, MR1396765] to non-negative continuous functions…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-05 Sandra Kliem

We consider a system of two reaction-diffusion-advection equations describing the one dimensional directed motion of particles with superimposed diffusion and mutual alignment. For this system we show the existence of traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Heinrich Freistühler , Jan Fuhrmann

We construct infinitely many real-valued, time-periodic breather solutions of power-type nonlinear wave equations. These solutions are obtained from critical points of a dual functional and they are weakly localized in space. Our abstract…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Rainer Mandel , Dominic Scheider

Partial differential equations endowed with a Hamiltonian structure, like the Korteweg--de Vries equation and many other more or less classical models, are known to admit rich families of periodic travelling waves. The stability theory for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-09 Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage , Pascal Noble , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

We prove the orbital stability of periodic traveling-wave solutions for systems of dispersive equations with coupled nonlinear terms. Our method is basically developed under two assumptions: one concerning the spectrum of the linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Fabrício Cristófani , Ademir Pastor

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of a generalized Rotation-Camassa-Holm equation, which is the $\theta$-equation augmented with the Coriolis effect, induced by the earth rotation. The generalized Rotation-Camassa-Holm equation (named…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 N'Gbo N'Gbo , Yonghui Xia , Tonghua Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the modulational stability of periodic traveling waves in a local model for shallow water waves, which is an extended version of the Hunter-Saxton equation. We construct a family of small-amplitude periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Lili Fan , Xin Zhang , Hongjun Gao

This paper is devoted to periodic travelling waves solving Lie-Poisson equations based on the Virasoro group. We show that the reconstruction of any such solution can be carried out exactly, regardless of the underlying Hamiltonian (which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Blagoje Oblak

The existence of traveling and standing waves is investigated for chains of coupled pendula with periodic boundary conditions. The results are proven by applying topological methods to subspaces of symmetric solutions. The main advantage of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-07-27 Carlos García-Azpeitia

Traveling waves for the FPU chain are constructed by solving the associated equation for the spatial profile $u$ of the wave. We consider solutions whose derivatives $u'$ need not be small, may change sign several times, but decrease at…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Gianni Arioli , Hans Koch

Travelling-wave solutions are shown to bifurcate from relative periodic orbits in plane Poiseuille flow at Re = 2000 in a saddle-node infinite period bifurcation. These solutions consist in self-sustaining sinuous quasi-streamwise streaks…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Subhendu Rawat , Carlo Cossu , François Rincon

We study the existence of traveling wave solutions to a unidirectional shallow water model which incorporates the full linear dispersion relation for both gravitational and capillary restoring forces. Using functional analytic techniques,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Mathew A. Johnson , J. Douglas Wright

We study the spectral stability of smooth, small-amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions of the Novikov equation, which is a Camassa-Holm type equation with cubic nonlinearities. Specifically, we investigate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Brett Ehrman , Mathew A. Johnson , Stéphane Lafortune