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We present in closed form some special travelling-wave solutions (on the real line or on the circle) of a perturbed sine-Gordon equation. The perturbation of the equation consists of a constant forcing term $\gamma$ and a linear dissipative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-28 Gaetano Fiore

We consider an evolution equation of parabolic type in R having a travelling wave solution. We perform an appropriate change of variables which transforms the equation into a non local evolution one having a travelling wave solution with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Jose M. Arrieta , Maria Lopez-Fernandez , Enrique Zuazua

Extending previous results of Oh--Zumbrun and Johnson--Zumbrun, we show that spectral stability implies linearized and nonlinear stability of spatially periodic traveling-wave solutions of viscous systems of conservation laws for systems of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-08 Mathew A. Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

In this paper, we study the existence of traveling wave solutions and the spreading speed for the solutions of an age-structured epidemic model with nonlocal diffusion. Our proofs make use of the comparison principles both to construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Arnaud Ducrot , Hao Kang

Lubrication equations for a surfactant-driven flow of a thin layer of fluid are considered with a singular surfactant-dependent surface tension. It is shown that there exists a bounded traveling wave solution which connects a fully…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Joachim Escher , Matthieu Hillairet , Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

For a fixed bounded domain $D \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ we investigate the asymptotic behaviour for large times of solutions to the $p$-Laplacian diffusion equation posed in a tubular domain \begin{equation*} \partial_t u = \Delta_p u \quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vázquez

Dissipationless hydrodynamics regularized by dispersion describe a number of physical media including water waves, nonlinear optics, and Bose-Einstein condensates. As in the classical theory of hyperbolic equations where a non-convex flux…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer

We discuss the application of a variant of the method of simplest equation for obtaining exact traveling wave solutions of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations containing polynomial nonlinearities. As simplest equation we use…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-07-17 Nikolay K. Vitanov , Zlatinka I. Dimitrova , Kaloyan N. Vitanov

We investigate the stability of traveling front solutions to nonlinear diffusive-dispersive equations of Burgers type, with a primary focus on the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers (KdVB) equation, although our analytical findings extend more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Blake Barker , Jared C. Bronski , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Zhao Yang

In this note, we extend the detailed study of the linearized dynamics obtained for cnoidal waves of the Korteweg--de Vries equation in \cite{JFA-R} to small-amplitude periodic traveling waves of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Corentin Audiard , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Changzhen Sun

In this paper we establish the orbital stability of periodic waves related to the logarithmic Korteweg-de Vries equation. Our motivation is inspired in the recent work \cite{carles}, in which the authors established the well-posedness and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Fábio Natali , Ademir Pastor , Fabrício Cristófani

We consider the traveling structure of symmetric solutions to the Rosenau-Kawahara-RLW equation and the perturbed R-KdV-RLW equation. Both equations are higher order perturbations of the classical KdV equation. For the Rosenau-Kawahara-RLW…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Long Pei , Fengyang Xiao , Pan Zhang

We prove the instability of a ``critical'' solitary wave of the generalized Korteweg -- de Vries equation, the one with the speed at the border between the stability and instability regions. The instability mechanism involved is ``purely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrew Comech , Scipio Cuccagna , Dmitry Pelinovsky

In this brief note we give a brief overview of the comprehensive theory, recently obtained by the author jointly with Johnson, Noble and Zumbrun, that describes the nonlinear dynamics about spectrally stable periodic waves of parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-21 L. Miguel Rodrigues

We examine the spectral stability and instability of periodic traveling waves for regularized long-wave models. Examples include the regularized Boussinesq, Benney--Luke, and Benjamin--Bona--Mahony equations. Of particular interest is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Jared C. Bronski , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Samuel Lee Wester

This paper concerns wave propagation in a class of scalar reaction-diffusion-convection equations with $p$-Laplacian-type diffusion and monostable reaction. We introduce a new concept of a non-smooth traveling wave profile, which allows us…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Pavel Drábek , Soyeun Jung , Eunkyung Ko , Michaela Zahradníková

We study an incompressible Darcy's free boundary problem, recently introduced in [22]. Our goal is to prove the existence of non-trivial traveling wave solutions and thus validate the interest of this model to describe cell motility. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Thomas Alazard , Martina Magliocca , Nicolas Meunier

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

The present paper is devoted to the study of stability, uniqueness and recurrence of generalized traveling waves of reaction-diffusion equations in time heterogeneous media of ignition type, whose existence has been proven by the authors of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

In this paper, we investigate the instability of one-dimensionally stable periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation to long wavelength transverse perturbations in the generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-04 Mathew A. Johnson