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We study a two-dimensional free boundary problem that models motility of eukaryotic cells on substrates. This problem consists of an elliptic equation describing the flow of cytoskeleton gel coupled with a convection-diffusion PDE for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-12 Leonid Berlyand , Jan Fuhrmann , Volodymyr Rybalko

In this paper, we focus on the existence of propagation fronts, solutions to non-local dispersion reaction models. Our aim is to provide a unified proof of this existence in a very broad framework using simple real analysis tools. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Emeric Bouin , Jérôme Coville

Roughly speaking a solitary wave is a solution of a field equation whose energy travels as a localised packet and which preserves this localisation in time. A soliton is a solitary wave which exhibits some strong form of stability so that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-29 J. Bellazzini , V. Benci , C. Bonanno , E. Sinibaldi

We investigate the spectral stability of travelling wave solutions in a Keller-Segel model of bacterial chemotaxis with a logarithmic chemosensitivity function and a constant, sublinear, and linear consumption rate. Linearising around the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-22 P. N. Davis , P. van Heijster , R. Marangell

The existence of ``dispersion-managed solitons'', i.e., stable pulsating solitary-wave solutions to the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with periodically modulated and sign-variable dispersion is now well known in nonlinear optics. Our…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Simon Clarke , Boris A. Malomed , Roger Grimshaw

Numerical simulation of the dislocation motion in 2D Frenkel - Kontorova (FK) model in the thermostat shows an unusual dynamical behavior. It appears that ''kink'' regime of dislocation gliding takes place in a certain region of parameters…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu. N. Gornostyrev , M. I. Katsnelson , A. V. Kravtsov , A. V. Trefilov

We demonstrate the behavior of the soliton which, while moving in non-dissipative and dispersion-constant medium encounters a finite-width barrier with varying dissipation and/or dispersion; beyond the layer dispersion is constant (but not…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-02-04 Alexey Samokhin

We explore a new type of discretizations of lattice dynamical models of the Klein-Gordon type relevant to the existence and long-term mobility of nonlinear waves. The discretization is based on non-holonomic constraints and is shown to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-03-19 Panayotis Kevrekidis , Vakhtang Putkaradze , Zoi Rapti

In the work of Colliander et al. (2010), a minimal lattice model was constructed describing the transfer of energy to high frequencies in the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. In the present work, we present a systematic study of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-07-25 Ross Parker , Pierre Germain , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Alejandro Aceves , P. G. Kevrekidis

Accurate modelling of nerve impulse propagation requires accounting for strong higher-order nonlinearities in membrane dynamics, as incorporated in the extended Heimburg-Jackson model. By introducing third- and fourth-order polynomial terms…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 V. A. Mendoza-Millán , J. L. Larios-Ferrer , J. Samuel Millán , O. Pavón-Torres

We are concerned with the hyperbolic Keller-Segel model with quorum sensing, a model describing the collective cell movement due to chemical signalling with a flux limitation for high cell densities. This is a first order quasilinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benoit Perthame , Anne-Laure Dalibard

In this paper, a ratio-dependent Holling-Tanner system with nonlocal diffusion is taken into account, where the prey is subject to a strong Allee effect. To be special, by applying Schauder's fixed point theorem and iterative technique, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Hongliang Li , Min Zhao , Rong Yuan

We study the properties of a relativistic model with logarithmic nonlinearity. We show that such model allows two types of solutions: topologically trivial (gaussons) and topologically non-trivial (kinks), depending on a sign of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-13 Ekaterina Belendryasova , Vakhid A. Gani , Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

The flux limited Keller-Segel (FLKS) system is a macroscopic model describing bacteria motion by chemotaxis which takes into account saturation of the velocity. The hyper-bolic form and some special parabolic forms have been derived from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Benoît Perthame , Nicolas Vauchelet , Zhian Wang

The effects of the non-extensive statistics on the nonlinear propagation of perturbations have been studied within the scope of relativistic second order dissipative hydrodynamics with the non-extensive equation of state. We have shown that…

Transverse oscillations and propagating waves are frequently observed in threads of solar prominences/filaments and have been interpreted as kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes. We investigate the spatial damping of propagating kink MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Soler , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester

We prove existence and uniqueness of travelling waves for a reaction-diffusion system coupling a classical reaction-diffusion equation in a strip with a diffusion equation on a line. To do this we use a continuation method which leads to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-20 Laurent Dietrich

The focus of this paper is on solutions to a two-dimensional Keller-Segel system containing sub-logistic sources. We show that the presence of sub-logistic terms is adequate to prevent blow-up phenomena even in strongly degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Minh Le

Context. In the coronal open-field regions, such as coronal holes, there are many transverse waves propagating along magnetic flux tubes, generally interpreted as kink waves. Previous studies have highlighted their potential in coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-18 Yuhang Gao , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Hui Tian , Mingzhe Guo , Konstantinos Karampelas

We consider a scalar reaction-diffusion equation in one spatial dimension with bistable nonlinearity and a nonlocal space-fractional diffusion operator of Riesz-Feller type. We present our analytical results on the existence, uniqueness (up…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Franz Achleitner , Christian Kuehn