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Reaction diffusion systems are often used to study pattern formation in biological systems. However, most methods for understanding their behavior are challenging and can rarely be applied to complex systems common in biological…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-24 William R. Holmes

We study convective stability of a two-front superposition in a reaction-diffusion system. Due to the instability of the connecting equilibrium, long-range semi-strong interaction is expected between the two waves. When restricting to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Louis Garénaux , Bastian Hilder

Discrete nonlinear systems support a rich variety of localized and extended wave phenomena, with their dynamics sensitively dependent on the symmetries of the underlying interaction forces within the lattice. Odd elasticity, emerging in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-20 Andrus Giraldo , Stefan Ruschel , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

We consider reaction-diffusion systems with multiplicative noise on a spatial domain of dimension two or higher. The noise process is white in time, coloured in space, and invariant under translations. In the deterministic setting,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Mark van den Bosch , Hermen Jan Hupkes

We investigate the dissipative dynamics of linear and nonlinear waves in harmonic traps by means of engineered complex non-Hermitian potentials. By combining an analytical mapping between real and complex Schr\"odinger equations with direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Mario Salerno

In this paper, we study the nonlinear wave modulation of arbitrary amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions of the Camassa-Holm (CH) equation. Slow modulations of wave trains is often described through Whitham's theory of modulations,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Mathew A. Johnson , Jeffrey Oregero

This paper investigates the conditions for the stability and emergence of patterns in a new three-component reaction-diffusion system. The system describes the coexistence and interaction of water reservoirs, vegetation, and bushfire…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

Sufficient conditions for the wave instability in general three-component reaction-diffusion systems are derived. These conditions are expressed in terms of the Jacobian matrix of the uniform steady state of the system, and enable us to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-05-07 Shigefumi Hata , Hiroya Nakao , Alexander S. Mikhailov

We study the traveling wave solutions to a reaction diffusion system modeling the public goods game with altruistic behaviors. The existence of the waves is derived through monotone iteration of a pair of classical upper- and lower…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-09 Xiaojie Hou , Wei Feng

A wave front and a wave back that spontaneously connect two hyperbolic equilibria, known as a heteroclinic wave loop, give rise to periodic waves with arbitrarily large spatial periods through the heteroclinic bifurcation. The nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Ji Li , Ke Wang , Qiliang Wu , Qing Yu

We consider several different bidirectional Whitham equations that have recently appeared in the literature. Each of these models combine the full two-way dispersion relation from the incompressible Euler equations with a canonical shallow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Kyle M. Claassen , Mathew A. Johnson

We analyze travelling wave (TW) solutions for nonlinear systems consisting of an ODE coupled to a degenerate PDE with a diffusion coefficient that vanishes as the solution tends to zero and blows up as it approaches its maximum value.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Koondanibha Mitra , Jack M. Hughes , Stefanie Sonner , Hermann J. Eberl , Jack D. Dockery

We develop a diagrammatic theory for transport of waves in disordered media with weak nonlinearity. We first represent the solution of the nonlinear wave equation as a nonlinear Born series. From this, we construct nonlinear ladder and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Thomas Wellens , Benoit Gremaud

Reaction-diffusion equations coupled to ordinary differential equations (ODEs) may exhibit spatially low-regular stationary solutions. This work provides a comprehensive theory of asymptotic stability of bounded, discontinuous or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-18 Chris Kowall , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Finn Münnich

We study modulational stability and instability in the Whitham equation, combining the dispersion relation of water waves and a nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, and modified to permit the effects of surface tension and constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

We study the local dynamics of $L^{2}\left(\mathbb{R}\right)$-perturbations to the zero solution of spatially $2\pi$-periodic coefficient reaction-diffusion systems. In this case the spectrum of the linearization about the zero solution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Connor Smith

It is a matter of experience that nonlinear waves in dispersive media, propagating primarily in one direction, may appear periodic in small space and time scales, but their characteristics --- amplitude, phase, wave number, etc. --- slowly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Jared C. Bronski , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

We study the evolution of nonlinear surface gravity water-wave packets developing from modulational instability over an uneven bottom. A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) with coefficients varying in space along propagation is used as…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-04 Andrea Armaroli , Alexis Gomel , Amin Chabchoub , Maura Brunetti , Jérôme Kasparian

A one species time-delay reaction-diffusion system defined on a complex networks is studied. Travelling waves are predicted to occur as follows a symmetry breaking instability of an homogenous stationary stable solution, subject to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-30 Julien Petit , Timoteo Carletti , Mabor Asslani , Duccio Fanelli

This thesis is concerned with dynamics of conservative nonlinear waves on bounded domains. In general, there are two scenarios of evolution. Either the solution behaves in an oscillatory, quasiperiodic manner or the nonlinear effects cause…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-04 Maciej Maliborski