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Quasi-periodic oscillations of high density thick accretion disks orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole have been recently addressed as interesting sources of gravitational waves. The aim of this paper is to compare the gravitational…

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Scroll waves are three-dimensional analogs of spiral waves. The linear stability spectrum of untwisted and twisted scroll waves is computed for a two-variable reaction-diffusion model of an excitable medium. Different bands of modes are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Herve Henry , Vincent Hakim

We study the weakly nonlinear evolution of acoustic instability of a plane- parallel polytrope with thermal dissipation in the form of Newton's law of cooling. The most unstable horizontal wavenumbers form a band around zero and this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 O. M. Umurhan , L. Tao , E. A. Spiegel

Rotating waves are a fascinating feature of a wide array of complex systems, particularly those arising in the study of many chemical and biological processes. With many rigorous mathematical investigations of rotating waves relying on the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Jason J. Bramburger

This work comes as the second part in a series of investigations into the dynamics of rotating waves as solutions to lattice dynamical systems. Such nonlinear waves as solutions to mathematical equations are of great interest throughout the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Jason J. Bramburger

We give a complete characterization of the boundary traces $\varphi_i$ ($i=1,\dots,K$) supporting spiraling waves, rotating with a given angular speed $\omega$, which appear as singular limits of competition-diffusion systems of the type \[…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Ariel Salort , Susanna Terracini , Gianmaria Verzini , Alessandro Zilio

We analytically derive the spectrum of gravitational waves due to magneto-hydrodynamical turbulence generated by bubble collisions in a first-order phase transition. In contrast to previous studies, we take into account the fact that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer , Geraldine Servant

Spiral waves are considered to be one of the potential mechanisms that maintains complex arrhythmias such as atrial and ventricular fibrillation. The aim of the present study was to quantify the complex dynamics of spiral waves as the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-07-03 Daniel Sohn , Konstantinos N. Aronis , Hiroshi Ashikaga

We investigate existence, stability, and instability of anchored rotating spiral waves in a model for geometric curve evolution. We find existence in a parameter regime limiting on a purely eikonal curve evolution. We study stability and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-06 Anthony Cortez , Nan Li , Nathan Mihm , Alice Xu , Xiaoxing Yu , Arnd Scheel

The origin of 1D spirals or antisymmetric 1D pulses is explaind so far on the basis of multistability of spatially inhomogeneous and temporally oscillatory phases and so called nonvariational effects. Thus, coupled amplitude equations which…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-08 A. Bhattacharyay

We discuss a new source of gravitational waves (GWs) from first-order phase transitions. The collisions of bubbles of the new phase can efficiently produce particles that couple to the background field undergoing the transition, thereby…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Keisuke Inomata , Marc Kamionkowski , Kentaro Kasai , Bibhushan Shakya

Nuclear spirals naturally form as a gas response to non-axisymmetry in the galactic potential, even if the degree of this asymmetry is very small. Linear wave theory well describes weak nuclear spirals, but spirals induced by stronger…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Witold Maciejewski

Spirals are common in Nature: the snail's shell and the ordering of seeds in the sunflower are amongst the most widely-known occurrences. While these are static, dynamic spirals can also be observed in excitable systems such as heart…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Patrick Boily

We consider the stochastic background of gravity waves produced by first-order cosmological phase transitions from two types of sources: colliding bubbles and hydrodynamic turbulence. First we discuss the fluid mechanics of relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Marc Kamionkowski , Arthur Kosowsky , Michael S. Turner

Many multicellular communities propagate signals in a directed manner via excitable waves. Cell-to-cell heterogeneity is a ubiquitous feature of multicellular communities, but the effects of heterogeneity on wave propagation are still…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Xiaoling Zhai , Joseph W. Larkin , Gürol M. Süel , Andrew Mugler

The possibility of forming gravitational-wave sources with high center-of-mass (c.m.) velocities in the vicinity of supermassive black holes requires us to develop a method of deriving the waveform in the observer's frame. Here we show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-07 Han Yan , Xian Chen , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela

Gravitational wave production from bubble collisions was calculated in the early nineties using numerical simulations. In this paper, we present an alternative analytic estimate, relying on a different treatment of stochasticity. In our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-13 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer , Geraldine Servant

Wave-exciting is a universal phenomenon in physical and biological excitable systems. Here we show that colloidal systems of Quincke rollers which are driven periodically can condense into active liquids and active crystals, in which waves…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-30 Meng Fei Zhang , Bao Ying Fan , Zeng Tao Liu , Tian Hui Zhang

We consider the stability of front-type modulated waves in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGL). The waves occur in the bistable regime (e.g. of the quintic CGL) and connect the zero state to a spatially homogenous state oscillating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Wolf-Jürgen Beyn , Christian Döding

Interaction of spiral density waves with stars in the vicinity of the inner Lindblad resonance in galactic discs is investigated using the linear perturbation theory and the leading orders in the epicyclic and WKB approximations. In analogy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Evgeny V. Polyachenko , Ilia G. Shukhman