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The problem of propagating nonlinear acoustic waves is considered; the solution to which, both with and without damping, having been obtained to-date starting from the Navier-Stokes-Duhem equations together with the continuity and thermal…
We show that delay-differential equations (DDE) exhibit universal bifurcation scenarios, which are observed in large classes of DDEs with a single delay. Each such universality class has the same sequence of stabilizing or destabilizing…
This work focuses on the Cauchy problem for the nonlocal modified Korteweg-de Vries equation $$ u_t(x,t)+6u(x,t)u(-x,-t)u_x(x,t)+u_{xxx}(x,t)=0, $$ with the oscillating step-like boundary conditions: $u(x,t)\to 0$ as $x\to-\infty$ and…
The zero-dilation index $d(A) $ of a matrix $A$ is the largest integer $k$ for which $\begin{bmatrix}0_k& *\\ * & *\end{bmatrix}$ is unitarily similar to $A$. In this study, the zero-dilation indices of certain block matrices are…
We propose a system of partial differential equations with a single constant delay $\tau > 0$ describing the behavior of a one-dimensional thermoelastic solid occupying a bounded interval of $\mathbb{R}^{1}$. For an initial-boundary value…
We establish conditions guaranteeing that all eventually positive increasing solutions of a half-linear delay differential equation are regularly varying and derive precise asymptotic formulae for them. The results here presented are new…
We study the short-time dynamics of a liquid ligament, held between two solid cylinders, when one is impulsively accelerated along its axis. A set of one-dimensional equations in the slender-slope approximation is used to describe the…
This paper is concerned with the global stability of non-critical/critical traveling waves with oscillations for time-delayed nonlocal dispersion equations. We first theoretically prove that all traveling waves, especially the critical…
We study the existence of positive solutions on the half-line $[0,\infty)$ for the nonlinear second order differential equation \[ \bigl(a(t)x^{\prime}\bigr)^{\prime}+b(t)F(x)=0,\quad t\geq0, \] satisfying Dirichlet type conditions, say…
We present a stability theory for kink propagation in chains of coupled oscillators and a new algorithm for the numerical study of kink dynamics. The numerical solutions are computed using an equivalent integral equation instead of a system…
We study the second order nonlinear differential equation \begin{equation*} u"+ \sum_{i=1}^{m} \alpha_{i} a_{i}(x)g_{i}(u) - \sum_{j=0}^{m+1} \beta_{j} b_{j}(x)k_{j}(u) = 0, \end{equation*} where $\alpha_{i},\beta_{j}>0$, $a_{i}(x),…
We study a modified Bullard dynamo and show that this system is equivalent to a nonlinear oscillator subject to a multiplicative noise. The stability analysis of this oscillator is performed. Two bifurcations are identified, first towards…
In this article, we study the blow-up of the damped wave equation in the \textit{scale-invariant case} and in the presence of two nonlinearities. More precisely, we consider the following equation: $$u_{tt}-\Delta…
This paper addresses the qualitative theory of mixed-order positive linear coupled systems with bounded or unbounded delays. First, we introduce a general result on the existence and uniqueness of solutions to mixed-order linear coupled…
A boundary value problem for a stationary nonlinear dispersive equation of order $2l+1\;\; l\in \mathbb{N}$ with a convective term in the form $u^ku_x\;\; k\in \mathbb{N}$ was considered on an interval $(0,L)$. The existence, uniqueness and…
We study the time correlation functions of coupled linear Langevin dynamics without and with inertia effects, both analytically and numerically. The model equation represents the physical behavior of a harmonic oscillator in two or three…
A nonlinear stochastic differential equation with the order of nonlinearity higher than one, with several discrete and distributed delays and time varying coefficients is considered. It is shown that the sufficient conditions for…
The present paper addresses the swing equation with additional delayed damping as an example for pendulum-like systems. In this context, it is proved that recurring sub- and supercritical Hopf bifurcations occur if time delay is increased.…
We propose a new method for constructing exact solutions to nonlinear delay reaction--diffusion equations of the form $$ u_t=ku_{xx}+F(u,w), $$ where $u=u(x,t)$, $w=u(x,t-\tau)$, and $\tau$ is the delay time. The method is based on…