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We prove the existence and uniqueness of a family of travelling waves in a degenerate (or singular) quasilinear parabolic problem that may be regarded as a generalization of the semilinear Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovski-Piscounov equation for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-02-18 Pavel Drabek , Peter Takac

It is demonstrated in this paper that the propagation of the electric wave field in a heterogeneous medium in 3D can sometimes be governed well by a single PDE, which is derived from the Maxwell's equations. The corresponding component of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Vladimir G. Romanov , Michael V. Klibanov

The search for time-harmonic solutions of nonlinear Maxwell equations in the absence of charges and currents leads to the elliptic equation $$\nabla\times\left(\mu(x)^{-1} \nabla\times u\right) - \omega^2\varepsilon(x)u = f(x,u)$$ for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Thomas Bartsch , Jarosław Mederski

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…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Jung , M. Luecke

Complex elastic media such as biological membranes, in particular, blood vessels, may be described as fiber-reinforced solids in the framework of nonlinear hyperelasticity. Finite axially symmetric anti-plane shear displacements in such…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Alexei Cheviakov , Caylin Lee , Rehana Naz

We propose a simple algebraic method for generating classes of traveling wave solutions for a variety of partial differential equations of current interest in nonlinear science. This procedure applies equally well to equations which may or…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-04-20 Dionisio Bazeia , Ashok Das , Laercio Losano , Mauro Jose dos Santos

We consider the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with nonzero conditions at infinity in $\R^2$. We investigate the existence of traveling waves that are periodic in the direction transverse to the direction of propagation and minimize the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Mihai Mariş , Anthony Mur

This paper considers a class of nonlinear time harmonic Maxwell systems at fixed frequency, with nonlinear terms taking the form $\mathscr{X}(x,|\vec E(x)|^2)\vec E(x)$, $\mathscr{Y}(x,|\vec H(x)|^2)\vec H(x)$, such that $\mathscr{X}(x,s)$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Cătălin I. Cârstea

In this article we are concerned with the existence and orbital stability of traveling wave solutions of a general class of nonlocal wave equations: $ u_{tt}-Lu_{xx}=B(\pm |u|^{p-1}u)_{xx}$, $ p>1$. The main characteristic of this class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-20 H. A. Erbay , S. Erbay , A. Erkip

In this work, we apply the factorization technique to the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony like equations, B(m,n), in order to get travelling wave solutions. We will focus on some special cases for which m is not equal to n, and we will obtain these…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2008-11-06 S. Kuru

We consider the semi linear Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovski-Piscounov equation for the advance of an advantageous gene in biology. Its non-smooth reaction function $f(u)$ allows for the introduction of travelling waves with a new profile. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Pavel Drábek , Peter Takáč

We derive parametric travelling-wave solutions of non-linear QCD equations. They describe the evolution towards saturation in the geometric scaling region. The method, based on an expansion in the inverse of the wave velocity, leads to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Peschanski

The existence of nonzero periodic travelling wave solutions for a general discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (DNLS) on finite one-dimensional lattices is proved. The DNLS features a general nonlinear term and variable range of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Dirk Hennig

Traveling wave solutions to Kawahara equation (KE), transmission line (TL), and Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation are found by using an elliptic function method which is more general than the $\mathrm{tanh}$-method. The method works by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-11-09 Stefan C. Mancas

In this paper we study the invasion fronts of spatially periodic monotone reaction-diffusion systems in a multi-dimensional setting. We study the pulsating traveling waves that connect the trivial equilibrium, for which all components of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Liangliang Deng , Arnaud Ducrot , Quentin Griette

In the recent work~\cite{Wang:2021p2}, the author proposed the expanded Maxwell's equations for moving charged media system, which seems subtle. Considering a very short time, we can approximately define the inertial frame of reference. If…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Chuang Li , Junle Pei , Tianjun Li

For an isotropic and homogeneous nonlinear left-handed materials, for which the effective medium approximation is valid, Maxwell's equations for electric and magnetic fields lead naturally, within the slowly varying envelope approximation,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-03-09 N. Lazarides , G. P. Tsironis

We consider discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations of n sites with periodic boundary conditions. These equations have n branches of standing waves that bifurcate from zero. Traveling waves appear as a symmetry-breaking from the standing…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Carlos García-Azpeitia

The curved spacetime Maxwell equations are applied to the anisotropically expanding Kasner metrics. Using the application of vector identities we derive 2$^\textrm{nd}$-order differential wave equations for the electromagnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-08 Brett Bochner

It is pointed out that the usual derivation of the well-known Maxwell electromagnetic equations holds only for a medium at rest. A way in which the equations may be modified for the case when the mean flow of the medium is steady and…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dunning-Davies