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We present experimental results on hydrothermal waves in long and narrow 1D channels. In a bounded channel, we describe the primary and secondary instabilities leading to waves and modulated waves in terms of convective/absolute…

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Discrete nonlinear systems support a rich variety of localized and extended wave phenomena, with their dynamics sensitively dependent on the symmetries of the underlying interaction forces within the lattice. Odd elasticity, emerging in…

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We report experimental study of the secondary modulational instability of a one-dimensional non-linear traveling wave in a long bounded channel. Two qualitatively different instability regimes involving fronts of spatio-temporal defects are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicolas Garnier , Arnaud Chiffaudel , Francois Daviaud

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

In the present work, we study coherent structures in a one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattice in which the coupling between waveguides is periodically modulated. Numerical experiments with single-site initial conditions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-23 Ross Parker , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , Alejandro Aceves

The purpose of this work is to introduce a concept of traveling waves in the setting of periodic metric graphs. It is known that the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (NLS) equation on periodic metric graphs can be reduced asymptotically on long…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Stefan Le Coz , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Guido Schneider

We identify a new type of pattern formation in spatially distributed active systems. We simulate one-dimensional two-component systems with predator-prey local interaction and pursuit-evasion taxis between the components. In a sufficiently…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-29 V. N. Biktashev , M. A. Tsyganov

We describe spatial and temporal patterns in cylindrical premixed flames in the cellular regime, $Le < 1$, where the Lewis number $Le$ is the ratio of thermal to mass diffusivity of a deficient component of the combustible mixture. A…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Bayliss , B. J. Matkowsky , H. Riecke

Nonlinear waves emitted from a moving source are studied. A meandering spiral in a reaction-diffusion medium provides an example, where waves originate from a source exhibiting a back-and-forth movement in radial direction. The periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lutz Brusch , Alessandro Torcini , Markus Baer

Since its elaboration by Whitham, almost fifty years ago, modulation theory has been known to be closely related to the stability of periodic traveling waves. However, it is only recently that this relationship has been elucidated, and that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage , Pascal Noble , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

The recent theoretical discovery of families of travelling wave solutions in pipe flow at Reynolds numbers lower than the transitional range naturally raises the question of their relevance to the turbulent transition process. Here a series…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. R. Kerswell , O. R. Tutty

In the dynamics generated by the suspension bridge equation, traveling waves are an essential feature. The existing literature focuses primarily on the idealized one-dimensional case, while traveling structures in two spatial dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Lindsey van der Aalst , Jan Bouwe van den Berg , Jean-Philippe Lessard

Traveling modulating pulse solutions consist of a small amplitude pulse-like envelope moving with a constant speed and modulating a harmonic carrier wave. Such solutions can be approximated by solitons of an effective nonlinear Schrodinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Tomas Dohnal , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Guido Schneider

We analyze the Eckhaus instability of plane waves in the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) and describe the nonlinear effects arising in the Eckhaus unstable regime. Modulated amplitude waves (MAWs) are quasi-periodic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lutz Brusch , Alessandro Torcini , Markus Baer

The study and characterization of the diversity of spatiotemporal patterns generated when a rectangular layer of fluid is locally heated beneath its free surface is presented. We focus on the instability of a stationary cellular pattern of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-01-21 Montserrat A. Miranda , Javier Burguete

We consider a free boundary model of epithelial cell migration with logistic growth and nonlinear diffusion induced by mechanical interactions. Using numerical simulations, phase plane and perturbation analysis, we find and analyse…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-05 Ryan J Murphy , Pascal R Buenzli , Ruth E Baker , Matthew J Simpson

We study traveling wave solutions of an equation for surface waves of moderate amplitude arising as a shallow water approximation of the Euler equations for inviscid, incompressible and homogenous fluids. We obtain solitary waves of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Armengol Gasull , Anna Geyer

The dynamics of phase-separated interfaces shape the behavior of both passive and active condensates. While surface tension in equilibrium systems minimizes interface length, non-equilibrium fluxes can destabilize flat or constantly curved…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-27 Florian Raßhofer , Simon Bauer , Alexander Ziepke , Ivan Maryshev , Erwin Frey

The notion of instability of a turbulent flow is introduced in the case of a von K\'arm\'an flow thanks to the monitoring of the spatio-temporal spectrum of the velocity fluctuations, combined with projection onto suitable Beltrami modes.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-14 Eric Herbert , Pierre-Philippe Cortet , François Daviaud , Bérengère Dubrulle

We describe traveling waves in a basic model for three-dimensional water-wave dynamics in the weakly nonlinear long-wave regime. Small solutions that are periodic in the direction of translation (or orthogonal to it) form an…

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