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Based on the analysis of biquaternion quadratic forms of field, it is shown that Maxwell equations arise as a consequence of the principle of conservation of the energy-momentum flow of field in space-time. It turns out that this principle…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Sergey Y. Kotkovskiy

We explore the propagation and transformation of electromagnetic waves through spatially homogeneous yet smoothly time-dependent media within the framework of classical electrodynamics. By modelling the smooth transition, occurring during a…

Equilateral triangular waveguides are one of the very few special kind of waveguides, whose field solutions can be constructed without necessarily solving the Maxwell's equations. Solutions can be obtained simply by superposing some plane…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Francis Emenike Onah , Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega

Colliding or noncolliding plane fronted electromagnetic or gravitational waves are the asymptotic limit of Robinson--Trautman spherical electromagnetic or gravitational waves. Noncolliding plane fronted waves contain no information about…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Peter A. Hogan , Dirk Puetzfeld

Starting from the kinetic approach for a mixture of reacting gases whose particles interact through elastic scattering and a bimolecular reversible chemical reaction, the equations that govern the dynamics of the system are obtained by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Rossani , A. M. Scarfone

We study systems interpolating between the 3D incompressible Euler and electron--MHD equations, given by \begin{equation*} \partial_t B + V \cdot \nabla B = B\cdot \nabla V, \qquad V = -\nabla\times (-\Delta)^{-a} B, \qquad \nabla\cdot B =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Dongho Chae , Kyudong Choi , In-Jee Jeong

In this paper a formulation of the field equation for moving media is developed by the generalization of an axiomatic geometric formulation of the electromagnetism in vacuum (Ivezi\'{c} T 2005 Found. Phys. Lett. 18 401. First, the field…

General Physics · Physics 2017-06-06 Tomislav Ivezic

For the Allen-Cahn equation, it is well known that there is a monotone standing wave joining with the balanced wells of the potential. In this paper we study the existence of traveling wave solutions for the Allen-Cahn equation on an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Chao-Nien Chen , Vittorio Coti Zelati

We study the existence of polychromatic solutions of cubically nonlinear Maxwell equations in the whole space and with dispersive media, i.e., with a time delayed polarization. Due to the complex nature of the dielectric function, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Tomas Dohnal , Maximilian Hanisch , Runan He

We study the propagation of ultra-short pulses in a cubic nonlinear medium. Using multiple-scale technique, we derive a new wave equation that preserves the nonlocal dispersion present in Maxwell's equations. As a result, we are able to…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Chung , T. Schaefer

Travelling-wave solutions are shown to bifurcate from relative periodic orbits in plane Poiseuille flow at Re = 2000 in a saddle-node infinite period bifurcation. These solutions consist in self-sustaining sinuous quasi-streamwise streaks…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Subhendu Rawat , Carlo Cossu , François Rincon

This paper focuses on traveling wave solutions for the so-called Rosenzweig-MacArthur model with spatial diffusion. The main results of this note are concerned with the existence and uniqueness of traveling wave solution as well as periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Arnaud Ducrot , Zhihua Liu , Pierre Magal

Two known, alternative to each other, forms of the Maxwell's electromagnetic equations in a moving uniform media are investigated and discussed. Approach commonly used after Minkowski is based on the two tensors: H^{ab} = (D, H /c) and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Red'kov , George J. Spix

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

This paper concerns the existence and properties of traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion-convection equations on the real line. We consider a general diffusion term involving the $p$-Laplacian and combustion-type reaction term. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Pavel Drábek , Michaela Zahradníková

We study Maxwell's equations in random media with small fluctuations of the electric permittivity. We consider a setup where the waves propagate toward a preferred direction, called range. We decompose the electromagnetic wave field in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

This note offers a conceptually straightforward and efficient way to formulate and solve problems in the electromagnetics of moving media based on a representation of Maxwell's equations in terms of differential forms on spacetime together…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 C E S Canovan , Robin W Tucker

In this paper we prove the existence of finite traveling-wave type solutions to the nonlinear double degenerate parabolic equation of turbulent filtration with absorption.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Adam Prinkey

We simplify the nonlinear equations of motion of charged particles in an external electromagnetic field that is the sum of a plane travelling wave F_t(ct-z) and a static part F_s(x,y,z): by adopting the light-like coordinate ct-z instead of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Gaetano Fiore

Two methods are explained to exactly solve Maxwell's equations where permittivity, permeability and conductivity may vary in space. In the constitutive relations, retardation is regarded. If the material properties depend but on one…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-20 Ulrich Brosa