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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

Recent studies have shown that in the presence of noise both fronts propagating into a metastable state and so-called pushed fronts propagating into an unstable state, exhibit diffusive wandering about the average position. In this paper we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Andrea Rocco , Jaume Casademunt , Ute Ebert , Wim van Saarloos

It is well known that pulse-like solutions of the cubic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation are unstable but can be stabilised by the addition of quintic terms. In this paper we explore an alternative mechanism where the role of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 I. V. Barashenkov , S. Cross , Boris A. Malomed

From a simple model for the driven motion of a planar interface under the influence of a diffusion field we derive a damped nonlinear oscillator equation for the interface position. Inside an unstable regime, where the damping term is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alexander L. Korzhenevskii , Richard Bausch , Rudi Schmitz

The paper is devoted to the investigation of a reaction-diffusion system of equations describing the process of blood coagulation. Existence of pulses solutions, that is, positive stationary solutions with zero limit at infinity is studied.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Nicolas Ratto , Martine Marion , Vitaly Volpert

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

This paper is concerned with the large-time behavior of solutions to the outflow problem of full compressible Navier-Stokes equations in the half line. This is one of the series of papers by the authors on the stability of nonlinear waves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Yazhou Chen , Hakho Hong , Xiaoding Shi

Our Recent advancements in stochastic processes have illuminated a paradox associated with the Einstein model of Brownian motion. The model predicts an infinite propagation speed, conflicting with the second law of thermodynamics. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Isanka Garli Hevage , Akif Ibraguimov , Zeev Sobol

We construct the traveling wave solutions of an FKPP growth process of two densities of particles, and prove that the critical traveling waves are locally stable in a space where the perturbations can grow exponentially at the back of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Florian Kreten

In this paper, we investigate the spectral stability of periodic traveling waves for a cubic-quintic and double dispersion equation. Using the quadrature method we find explict periodic waves and we also present a characterization for all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Fábio Natali , Thiago P. de Andrade

We expand on a previous study of fronts in finite particle number reaction-diffusion systems in the presence of a reaction rate gradient in the direction of the front motion. We study the system via reaction-diffusion equations, using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elisheva Cohen , David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

Reaction-diffusion equations describe various spatially extended processes that unfold as traveling fronts moving at constant velocity. We introduce and solve analytically a model that, besides such fronts, supports solutions advancing as…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Louis Brezin , Kyle J. Shaffer , Kirill S. Korolev

We study convective stability of a two-front superposition in a reaction-diffusion system. Due to the instability of the connecting equilibrium, long-range semi-strong interaction is expected between the two waves. When restricting to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Louis Garénaux , Bastian Hilder

We show that a steady-state solution ${\bf U}$ to the system of equations of a Navier-Stokes flow past a rotating body is nonlinearly unstable if the associated linear operator $\cal L$ has a part of the spectrum in the half-plane…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Giovanni P. Galdi Jiří Neustupa

In this paper, we develop a model to describe the generalized wave-particle instability in a quasi-neutral plasma. We analyze the quasi-linear diffusion equation for particles by expressing an arbitrary unstable and resonant wave mode as a…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Seong-Yeop Jeong , Daniel Verscharen , Robert T. Wicks , Andrew N. Fazakerley

The linearization principle states that the stability (or instability) of solutions to a suitable linearization of a nonlinear problem implies the stability (or instability) of solutions to the original nonlinear problem. In this work, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Sofwah Ahmad , Szymon Cygan , Grzegorz Karch

We describe recent analytical and numerical results on stability and behavior of viscous and inviscid detonation waves obtained by dynamical systems/Evans function techniques like those used to study shock and reaction diffusion waves. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-03 Kevin Zumbrun

We consider linear instability of solitary waves of several classes of dispersive long wave models. They include generalizations of KDV, BBM, regularized Boussinesq equations, with general dispersive operators and nonlinear terms. We obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-04 Zhiwu Lin

In this paper we establish the orbital stability of periodic traveling waves for a general class of dispersive equations. We use the Implicit Function Theorem to guarantee the existence of smooth solutions depending of the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Fábio Natali

We study reaction-diffusion equations in cylinders with possibly nonlinear diffusion and possibly nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions. We provide a geometric Poincar\'e-type inequality and classification results for stable solutions, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Serena Dipierro , Nicola Soave , Enrico Valdinoci