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Proposed in this paper is a numerical procedure to generate periodic traveling wave solutions of some nonlinear dispersive wave equations. The method is based on a suitable modification of a fixed point algorithm of Petviahvili type and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-22 J. Alvarez , A. Duran

In this paper a family of fixed point algorithms for the numerical resolution of some systems of nonlinear equations is designed and analyzed. The family introduced here generalizes the Petviashvili method and can be applied to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-12 J. Alvarez , A. Duran

An equation to describe nearly one-dimensional traveling-waves patterns is put forward. This is a dispersive generalization of the classical Newell-Whitehead-Segel (NWS) equation. Transverse stability of plane waves is considered within the…

patt-sol · Physics 2008-02-03 Boris Malomed

In this paper, we investigate the spectral instability of periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation to long wavelength transverse perturbations in the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation. By…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-09 Mathew A. Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

We are concerned with travelling wave solutions arising in a reaction diffusion equation with bistable and nonlocal nonlinearity, for which the comparison principle does not hold. Stability of the equilibrium $u\equiv 1$ is not assumed. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-15 Matthieu Alfaro , Jerome Coville , Gael Raoul

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

Reaction-Diffusion equations can present solutions in the form of traveling waves. Such solutions evolve in different spatial and temporal scales and it is desired to construct numerical methods that can adopt a spatial refinement at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Jae-Hun Jung , Daniel Olmos-Liceaga

Lucas and Moll have proposed a system of forward-backward partial differential equations that model knowledge diffusion and economic growth. It arises from a microscopic model of learning for a mean-field type interacting system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-22 George Papanicolaou , Lenya Ryzhik , Katerina Velcheva

The interaction between a pair of Bloch fronts forming a traveling domain in a bistable medium is studied. A parameter range beyond the nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch bifurcation is found where traveling domains collapse. Only beyond a second…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Elphick , A. Hagberg , B. A. Malomed , E. Meron

In this paper, we investigate the instability of the spherical travelling wave solutions for the Transport-Stokes system in $\mathbb{R}^3$. First, a classical scaling argument ensures instability among all probability measures for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Matthieu Bonnivard , Amina Mecherbet

We use the Maslov index to study the spectrum of a class of linear Hamiltonian differential operators. We provide a lower bound on the number of positive real eigenvalues, which includes a contribution to the Maslov index from a non-regular…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Graham Cox , Mitchell Curran , Yuri Latushkin , Robert Marangell

Many systems in life sciences have been modeled by reaction-diffusion equations. However, under some circumstances, these biological systems may experience instantaneous and periodic perturbations (e.g. harvest, birth, release, fire events,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-28 J. Banasiak , Y. Dumont , I. V. Yatat Djeumen

We present a method to control the two-dimensional shape of traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion systems, as e.g. interfaces and excitation pulses. Control signals that realize a pre-given wave shape are determined analytically…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-12-15 Jakob Löber , Steffen Martens , Harald Engel

We establish the existence and nonlinear stability of travelling wave solutions for a class of lattice differential equations (LDEs) that includes the discrete FitzHugh-Nagumo system with alternating scale-separated diffusion coefficients.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-08-03 W. M. Schouten , H. J. Hupkes

We consider solutions of a scalar reaction-diffusion equation of the ignition type with a random, stationary and ergodic reaction rate. We show that solutions of the Cauchy problem spread with a deterministic rate in the long time limit. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-10-10 James Nolen , Lenya Ryzhik

We prove existence, uniqueness, and stability of transition fronts (generalized traveling waves) for reaction-diffusion equations in cylindrical domains with general inhomogeneous ignition reactions. We also show uniform convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-19 Andrej Zlatos

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

A set of traveling wave solution to convection-reaction-diffusion equation is studied by means of methods of local nonlinear analysis and numerical simulation. It is shown the existence of compactly supported solutions as well as solitary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Vsevolod A. Vladimirov

In this paper, we investigate the instability of one-dimensionally stable periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation to long wavelength transverse perturbations in the generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-04 Mathew A. Johnson

We study the existence of traveling wave solutions for a diffusive predator-prey system. The system considered in this paper is governed by a Sigmoidal response function which is more general than those studied previously. Our method is an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiaobiao Lin , Peixuan Weng , Chufen Wu