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In this article, a perturbation theory of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in $\mathbb{R}^n$ $(n \geq 3)$ is studied to investigate decay estimate of solutions around a non-constant state. As a concrete problem, stability is…

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We analyze the stability and dynamics of bistable planar fronts in multicomponent reaction-diffusion systems on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$. Under standard spectral stability assumptions, we establish Lyapunov stability of the front against fully…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Björn de Rijk , Joris van Winden

The goal of this work is to determine classes of travelling solitary wave solutions for a differential approximation of a finite difference scheme by means of a hyperbolic ansatz. It is shown that spurious solitary waves can occur in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Claire David , Pierre Sagaut

We present a new method for analyzing the global stability of the Sedov-von Neumann-Taylor self-similar solutions, describing the asymptotic behavior of spherical decelerating shock waves, expanding into ideal gas with density \propto…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Doron Kushnir , Eli Waxman , Dov Shvarts

We study the influence of weak periodic signals on the transport properties of underdamped ratchets. We find that the constant current intervals related to the ratchet, can be significantly enlarged by a weak subharmonic signal which is in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Maria Barbi , Mario Salerno

Planetary turbulent flows are observed to self-organize into large scale structures such as zonal jets and coherent vortices. One of the simplest models of planetary turbulence is obtained by considering a barotropic flow on a beta-plane…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 Nikolaos A. Bakas , Petros J. Ioannou

The propagation of incoherent elastic energy in a three-dimensional solid due to the scattering by many, randomly placed and oriented, pinned dislocation segments, is considered in a continuum mechanics framework. The scattering mechanism…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-20 Dmitry Churochkin , Fernando Lund

Hyperbolic reaction-diffusion equations have recently attracted attention both for their application to a variety of biological and chemical phenomena, and for their distinct features in terms of propagation speed and novel instabilities…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-08-17 Joshua Ritchie , Andrew L. Krause , Robert A. Van Gorder

We investigate the existence and spectral stability of traveling wave solutions for a class of fourth-order semilinear wave equations, commonly referred to as beam equations. Using variational methods based on a constrained maximization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Vishnu Iyer , Ross Parker , Atanas G. Stefanov

Spatiotemporal patterns such as traveling waves are frequently observed in recordings of neural activity. The mechanisms underlying the generation of such patterns are largely unknown. Previous studies have investigated the existence and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-16 Johanna Senk , Karolína Korvasová , Jannis Schuecker , Espen Hagen , Tom Tetzlaff , Markus Diesmann , Moritz Helias

We apply spectral stability theory to investigate nonlinear gravity waves in the atmosphere. These waves are determined by modulation equations that result from Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin theory. First, we establish that plane waves, which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-25 Mark Schlutow , Erik Wahlén , Philipp Birken

We investigate diffusion-driven instabilities in a FitzHugh-Nagumo reaction-diffusion system with superdiffusive transport, modeled by fractional Laplacian operators with different diffusion orders for the activator and the inhibitor. A…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-04 Rossella Rizzo , Gaetana Gambino , Vincenzo Sciacca , Marco Sammartino

In this work we revisit the existence, stability and dynamics of unstable traveling solitary waves in the context of lattice dynamical systems. We consider a nonlinear lattice of an $\alpha$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam type with the additional feature…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-16 H. Duran , H. Xu , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Vainchtein

A class of hyperbolic reaction--diffusion models with cross-diffusion is derived within the context of Extended Thermodynamics. Linear stability analysis is performed to study the nature of the equilibrium states against uniform and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-12 Carmela Currò , Giovanna Valenti

Motivated by bacterial chemotaxis and multi-species ecological interactions in heterogeneous environments, we study a general one-dimensional reaction-cross-diffusion system in the presence of spatial heterogeneity in both transport and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-03-08 Eamonn A. Gaffney , Andrew L. Krause , Philip K. Maini , Chenyuan Wang

The propagation of waves in the nonlinear acoustic metamaterials (NAMs) is fundamentally different from that in the conventional linear ones. In this article we consider two one-dimensional NAM systems featuring respectively a diatomic and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-18 Xin Fang , Jihong Wen , Bernard Bonello , Jianfei Yin , Dianlong Yu

We analyze the pattern forming ability and pattern stability for a one-dimensional non-linear transport-diffusion equation on the circle. We show that the trivial steady state is stable when diffusion is sufficiently strong. In the limit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Edith Geigant , Michael Stoll

In this paper we present a rigorous modulational stability theory for periodic traveling wave solutions to equations of nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) type. We first argue that, for Hamiltonian dispersive equations with a non-singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Katelyn Plaisier Leisman , Jared C Bronski , Mathew A Johnson , Robert Marangell

This paper concerns wave propagation in a class of scalar reaction-diffusion-convection equations with $p$-Laplacian-type diffusion and monostable reaction. We introduce a new concept of a non-smooth traveling wave profile, which allows us…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Pavel Drábek , Soyeun Jung , Eunkyung Ko , Michaela Zahradníková

A nonlinear dynamics of the thermal and electromagnetic instability of critical state in type II superconductors has been analysed taking into account effects of dissipation and dispersion. An existance of a nonlinear running waves…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Nizam A. Taylanov