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This paper investigates the following Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system with nonlinear diffusion and rotational flux $$\begin{align}\begin{cases} &n_t+u\cdot\nabla n=\Delta n^m-\nabla\cdot(nS(x, n, c)\nabla c),\quad &x\in \Omega, t>0, \\…
We study the evolution of fronts in a bistable reaction-diffusion system when the nonlinear reaction term is spatially non-homogeneous. This equation has been used to model wave propagation in various biological systems. Extending previous…
Nonlinear fronts between spatially extended traveling wave convection (TW) and quiescent fluid and spatially localized traveling waves (LTWs) are investigated in quantitative detail in the bistable regime of binary fluid mixtures heated…
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The famous Fisher-KPP reaction diffusion model combines linear diffusion with the typical Fisher-KPP reaction term, and appears in a number of relevant applications. It is remarkable as a mathematical model since, in the case of linear…
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Travelling-wave, quasi-periodic and ``longulent'' states of the Galerkin-regularized systems preserving finite Fourier modes are exposed. The longulent states are characterized by solitonic structures, called ``longons'', accompanied by…
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We emphasize that construction of travelling wave solutions for partial differential equations is a problem of considerable interest and thus introduce a simple algebraic method to generate such solutions for equations in the Burgers…
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We study travelling wave solutions of a generalised Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation with a non-local diffusion term and a concave-convex flux. This model equation arises in the analysis of a shallow water flow by performing formal…
Isolated kinks on thermally fluctuating (1/2)<111> screw, <100> edge and (1/2)<111> edge dislocations in bcc iron are simulated under zero stress conditions using molecular dynamics (MD). Kinks are seen to perform stochastic motion in a…
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We provide a mathematical analysis of a thermo-diffusive combustion model of lean spray flames, for which we prove the existence of travelling waves. In the high activation energy singular limit we show the existence of two distinct…
We investigate the existence and propagation of solitons in a long-range extension of the quartic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) chain of anharmonic oscillators. The coupling in the linear term decays as a power-law with an exponent greater than 1…
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