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We consider by a combination of analytical and numerical techniques some basic questions regarding the relations between inviscid and viscous stability and existence of a convex entropy. Specifically, for a system possessing a convex…

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In this paper, we study the Rosenzweig-MacArthur predator-prey model with predator-taxis and time delay defined on a disk. Theoretically, we studied the equivariant Hopf bifurcation around the positive constant steady-state solution.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Yaqi Chen , Xianyi Zeng , Ben Niu

We consider a system of first order coupled mode equations in $\mathbb{R}^d$ describing the envelopes of wavepackets in nonlinear periodic media. Under the assumptions of a spectral gap and a generic assumption on the dispersion relation at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-15 Tomas Dohnal , Lisa Wahlers

We employ weakly nonlinear theory to derive an amplitude equation for the conserved-Hopf instability, i.e., a generic large-scale oscillatory instability for systems with two conservation laws. The resulting equation represents in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-27 Daniel Greve , Uwe Thiele

We investigate the KdV-Burgers and Gardner equations with dissipation and external perturbation terms by the approach of dynamical systems and Shil'nikov's analysis. The stability of the equilibrium point is considered, and Hopf…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-08-14 Stefan C. Mancas , Ronald Adams

Extending recent results in the isentropic case, we use a combination of asymptotic ODE estimates and numerical Evans-function computations to examine the spectral stability of shock-wave solutions of the compressible Navier--Stokes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-09 Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

Stability of the traveling wave solution to a general class of one-dimensional nonlocal evolution equations is studied in $L^2$-spaces, thereby providing an alternative approach to the usual spectral analysis with respect to the supremum…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Eva Lang , Wilhelm Stannat

We study by a combination of numerical and analytical Evans function techniques the stability of solitary wave solutions of the St. Venant equations for viscous shallow-water flow down an incline, and related models. Our main result is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

We analyze the nonlinear dynamics near the incoherent state in a mean-field model of coupled oscillators. The population is described by a Fokker-Planck equation for the distribution of phases, and we apply center-manifold reduction to…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-22 John David Crawford

We apply a variational technique to solve the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation for Bose-Einstein condensates in which an additional dipole-dipole interaction between the atoms is present with the goal of modelling the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-10 Patrick Köberle , Holger Cartarius , Tomaž Fabčič , Jörg Main , Günter Wunner

The main purpose of the present paper is to investigate the nonlinear stability of viscous shock waves and rarefaction wave for bipolar Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann (VPB) system. To this end, motivated by the micro-macro decomposition to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Hailiang Li , Yi Wang , Tong Yang , Mingying Zhong

We prove that the famous diffusive Brusselator model can support more complicated spatial-temporal wave structure than the usual temporal-oscillation from a standard Hopf bifurcation. In our investigation, we discover that the diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Jinghua Yao , Xiaoyan Wang

The appearance of travelling-wave-type solutions in pipe Poiseuille flow that are disconnected from the basic parabolic profile is numerically studied in detail. We focus on solutions in the 2-fold azimuthally-periodic subspace because of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-12-04 F. Mellibovsky , B. Eckhardt

We study the unstable spectrum close to the imaginary axis for the linearization of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation about a periodic traveling wave in a co-moving frame. We define dynamical Hamiltonian-Hopf instabilities as points in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Robert Marangell , Peter D. Miller

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

{We study a model of small-amplitude traveling waves arising in a supercritical Hopf-bifurcation, that are coupled to a slowly varying, real field. The field is advected by the waves and, in turn, affects their stability via a coupling to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Alex Roxin , Hermann Riecke

We analyze the stability and dynamics of bistable planar fronts in multicomponent reaction-diffusion systems on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$. Under standard spectral stability assumptions, we establish Lyapunov stability of the front against fully…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Björn de Rijk , Joris van Winden

This paper studies the asymptotic stability of shock profiles and rarefaction waves under space-periodic perturbations for one-dimensional convex scalar viscous conservation laws. For the shock profile, we show that the solution approaches…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Zhouping Xin , Qian Yuan , Yuan Yuan

Scalar conservation laws with non-convex fluxes have shock wave solutions that violate the Lax entropy condition. In this paper, such solutions are selected by showing that some of them have corresponding traveling waves for the equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Michael Shearer , Kimberly R. Spayd , Ellen R. Swanson

We study certain stationary and time-evolution problems of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates of weakly interacting alkali atoms described by a nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation. We suggest a pseudospectral method involving Laguerre…

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