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In this paper we prove the existence of a periodic highest, cusped, traveling wave solution for the Burgers-Hilbert equation $f_{t} + f f_{x} = H[f]$ and give its asymptotic behaviour at $0$. The proof combines careful asymptotic analysis…
We study traveling waves for a class of fractional Korteweg--De Vries and fractional Degasperis--Procesi equations with a parametrized Fourier multiplier operator of order $-s \in (-1, 0)$. For both equations there exist local analytic…
We prove the existence of highest, cusped, periodic travelling-wave solutions with exact and optimal $ \alpha $-H\"older continuity in a class of fractional negative-order dispersive equations of the form \begin{equation*} u_t + (|…
We prove that if a solution of an equation of KdV type is bounded above by a traveling wave with an amplitude that decays faster than a given linear exponential then it must be zero. We assume no restrictions neither on the size nor in the…
We prove exact leading-order asymptotic behaviour at the origin for nontrivial solutions of two families of nonlocal equations. The equations investigated include those satisfied by the cusped highest steady waves for both the uni- and…
We consider the existence of periodic traveling waves in a bidirectional Whitham equation, combining the full two-way dispersion relation from the incompressible Euler equations with a canonical shallow water nonlinearity. Of particular…
We prove the existence of a periodic traveling wave of extreme form of the Whitham equation that has a convex profile between consecutive stagnation points, at which it is known to feature a cusp of exactly $C^{1/2}$ regularity. The…
We give a detailed study of the traveling wave solutions of $(\ell=2)$ Kaup-Boussinesq type of coupled KdV equations. Depending upon the zeros of a fourth degree polynomial, we have cases where there exist no nontrivial real solutions,…
Fractional wave equation arises in different type of physical problems such as the vibrating strings, propagation of electro-magnetic waves, and for many other systems. The exact analytical solution of the fractional differential equation…
We analyze the asymptotic behavior of solutions to wave equations with strong damping terms. If the initial data belong to suitable weighted $L^1$ spaces, lower bounds for the difference between the solutions and the leading terms in the…
For the fractional diffusion-wave equation with the Caputo-Dzhrbashyan fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (1,2)$ with respect to the time variable, we prove an analog of the principle of limiting amplitude (well-known for the wave…
We consider the Whitham equation $u_t + 2u u_x+Lu_x = 0$, where L is the nonlocal Fourier multiplier operator given by the symbol $m(\xi) = \sqrt{\tanh \xi /\xi}$. G. B. Whitham conjectured that for this equation there would be a highest,…
In this paper, we obtain some new explicit travelling wave solutions of the perturbed KdV equation through recent factorization techniques that can be performed when the coefficients of the equation fulfill a certain condition. The…
Using the method of sub-super-solution, we construct a solution of $(-\Delta)^su-cu_z-f(u)=0$ on $\R^3$ of pyramidal shape. Here $(-\Delta)^s$ is the fractional Laplacian of sub-critical order $1/2<s<1$ and $f$ is a bistable nonlinearity.…
We prove the existence of a family of travelling wave solutions in a variant of the $\textit{Zeldovich-Frank-Kamenetskii (ZFK) equation}$, a reaction-diffusion equation which models the propagation of planar laminar premixed flames in…
In this paper we review the physical relevance of a Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation with higher-order dispersion terms which is used in the applied sciences and engineering. We also present exact traveling wave solutions to this…
Dispersive averaging effects are used to show that KdV equation with periodic boundary conditions possesses high frequency solutions which behave nearly linearly. Numerical simulations are presented which indicate high accuracy of this…
We consider several models of nonlinear wave equations subject to very strong damping and quasi-periodic external forcing. This is a singular perturbation, since the damping is not the highest order term. We study the existence of response…
A well-known optimal velocity (OV) model describes vehicle motion along a single lane road, which reduces to a perturbed modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation within the unstable regime. Steady travelling wave solutions to this…
Sufficient conditions for either existence or non-existence of traveling wave solutions for a general quasi-linear reaction-diffusion-convection equation, possibly highly degenerate or singular, with discontinuous coefficients are…