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We consider Schr\"odinger equations with variable coefficients, and it is supposed to be a long-range type perturbation of the flat Laplacian on $R^n$. We characterize the wave front set of solutions to Schr\"odinger equations in terms of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-09-18 Shu Nakamura

Propagating, solitary magnetic wave solutions of the Landau-Lifshitz equation with uniaxial, easy-axis anisotropy in thin (two-dimensional) magnetic films are investigated. These localized, nontopological wave structures, parametrized by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-03-20 M. A. Hoefer , M. Sommacal

We study families of smooth immersed regular planar curves $ \alpha : \left [-1,1 \right ]\times \left [0,T \right )\to \mathbb{R}^{2}$ satisfying the fourth order nonlinear curve diffusion flow with generalised Neumann boundary conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Mashniah Gazwani , James McCoy

This article is concerned with the existence of traveling wave solutions, including standing waves, to some models based on configurational forces, describing respectively the diffusionless phase transformations of solid materials, e.g.,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-22 Shuichi Kawashima , Peicheng Zhu

This paper presents a simple model for such processes as chaos spreading or turbulence spillover into stable regions. In this simple model the essential transport occurs via inelastic resonant interactions of waves on a lattice. The process…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-28 Alexander V. Milovanov , Alexander Iomin , Jens Juul Rasmussen

We demonstrate that collective motion of interfacial fluctuations can occur at the interface between two coexisting thermodynamic phases. Based on computer simulation results for driven diffusive Ising and Blume-Capel models, we conjecture…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Thomas H. R. Smith , Oleg Vasilyev , Anna Maciolek , Matthias Schmidt

We reveal the generic characteristics of wave packet delocalization in two-dimensional nonlinear disordered lattices by performing extensive numerical simulations in two basic disordered models: the Klein-Gordon system and the discrete…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-18 Bertin Many Manda , Bob Senyange , Charalampos Skokos

The problem of front propagation in flowing media is addressed for laminar velocity fields in two dimensions. Three representative cases are discussed: stationary cellular flow, stationary shear flow, and percolating flow. Production terms…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Abel , A. Celani , D. Vergni , A. Vulpiani

Propagation of energetic particles across the mean field direction in turbulent magnetic fields is often described as spatial diffusion. Recently, it has been suggested that initially the particles propagate systematically along meandering…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-06-22 T. Laitinen , S. Dalla , D. Marriott

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 present a diagrammatic theory for coherent backscattering from disordered dilute media in the nonlinear regime. The approach is non-perturbative in the strength of the nonlinearity. We show that the coherent backscattering enhancement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thomas Wellens , Benoit Gremaud

The motion of self-propelled particles is modeled as a persistent random walk. An analytical framework is developed that allows the derivation of exact expressions for the time evolution of arbitrary moments of the persistent walk's…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-28 Zeinab Sadjadi , M. Reza Shaebani , Heiko Rieger , Ludger Santen

We study the deterministic skeleton of the renormalized stochastic Allen--Cahn equation in spatial dimension $2$. For all sufficiently small regularization parameters $\delta>0$, we construct monotone traveling wave front solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Gideon Chiusole , Christian Kuehn

Reaction-diffusion equations (RDEs) are often derived as continuum limits of lattice-based discrete models. Recently, a discrete model which allows the rates of movement, proliferation and death to depend upon whether the agents are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Yifei Li , Peter van Heijster , Matthew J. Simpson , Martin Wechselberger

We report experimental study of the secondary modulational instability of a one-dimensional non-linear traveling wave in a long bounded channel. Two qualitatively different instability regimes involving fronts of spatio-temporal defects are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicolas Garnier , Arnaud Chiffaudel , Francois Daviaud

We show by a formal asymptotic expansion that level sets of solutions of a time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation evolve by a geometric flow whose normal velocity is a positive power of the mean curvature. This connection is quite intriguing,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Serena Dipierro , Matteo Novaga , Enrico Valdinoci

A microscopic, driven lattice gas model is proposed for the dynamics and spatio-temporal fluctuations of the precursor film observed in spreading experiments. Matter is transported both by holes and particles, and the distribution of each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Douglas B. Abraham , Rodolfo Cuerno , Esteban Moro

We experimentally investigate the evolution of linear and nonlinear waves in a realization of the Anderson model using disordered one dimensional waveguide lattices. Two types of localized eigenmodes, flat-phased and staggered, are directly…

Oceanic internal waves often have curvilinear fronts and propagate over various currents. We present the first study of long weakly-nonlinear internal ring waves in a three-layer fluid in the presence of a background linear shear current.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-01 D. Tseluiko , N. S. Alharthi , R. Barros , K. R. Khusnutdinova

Instabilities driven by strong gradients appear in a wide variety of physical systems, including plasmas, neutral fluids, and self-gravitating systems. This work develops an analytic formulation to describe the transport structure and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Emma G. Devin , Vinícius N. Duarte