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The problem of velocity selection for reaction fronts has been intensively investigated, leading to the successful marginal stability approach for propagation into an unstable state. Because the front velocity is controlled by the leading…

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Motivated by earlier studies of artificial perceptions of light called phosphenes, we analyze traveling wave solutions in a chain of periodically forced coupled nonlinear oscillators modeling this phenomenon. We examine the discrete model…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-20 Mei Duanmu , Nathaniel Whitaker , Panos Kevrekidis , Anna Vainchtein , Jonathan Rubin

In this paper, curved fronts are constructed for spatially periodic bistable reaction-diffusion equations under the a priori assumption that there exist pulsating fronts in every direction. Some sufficient and some necessary conditions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Hongjun Guo , Wan-Tong Li , Rongsong Liu , Zhi-Cheng Wang

We investigate dynamics of large scale and slow deformations of layered structures. Starting from the respective model equations for a non-conserved system, a conserved system and a binary fluid, we derive the interface equations which are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Takao Ohta , David Jasnow

In systems that exhibit a bistability between nonlinear traveling waves and the basic state, pairs of fronts connecting these two states can form localized wave pulses whose stability depends on the interaction between the fronts. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-29 Catherine Crawford , Hermann Riecke

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 dynamics of fronts, or kinks, in dispersive media with gain and losses is considered. It is shown that the front parameters, such as the velocity and width, depend on initial conditions. This result is not typical for dissipative…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-08-06 Izzat M. Allayarov , Eduard N. Tsoy

This paper is concerned with a lattice dynamical system modeling the evolution of susceptible and infective individuals at discrete niches. We prove the existence of traveling waves connecting the disease-free state to non-trivial leftover…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Yan-Yu Chen , Jong-Shenq Guo , Francois Hamel

Enchanting ripple pattern exist on interface, and manifest them self in it's fluctuation profile as well. These ripples apparently flow as the interface struck with inhomogeneous externally driven field interface, moves fluctuating about it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-26 Manish K. Sahai

In this work we investigate the development of stable dynamical structures along interfaces separating domains belonging to enemy partnerships, in the context of cyclic predator-prey models with an even number of species $N \ge 8$. We use…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 P. P. Avelino , D. Bazeia , L. Losano , J. Menezes , B. F. Oliveira

Wave propagation in one-dimensional heterogeneous bistable media is studied using the Schl\"ogl model as a representative example. Starting from the analytically known traveling wave solution for the homogeneous medium, infinitely extended,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-12-19 Jakob Löber , Markus Bär , Harald Engel

Water freezing in particle suspensions widely exists in nature. As a typical physical system of free boundary problem, the spatiotemporal evolution of the solid/liquid interface not only origins from phase transformation but also from…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-16 Tongxin Zhang , Zhijun Wang , Lilin Wang , Junjie Li , Jincheng Wang

We develop a mechanism for the controlled conversion of ballistic to diffusive motion and vice versa. This process takes place at the interfaces of domains with different time-dependent forces in lattices of laterally oscillating barrier…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Christoph Petri , Florian Lenz , Benno Liebchen , Fotis K. Diakonos , Peter Schmelcher

The widespread development and use of neural networks have significantly enriched a wide range of computer algorithms and promise higher speed at lower cost. However, the imitation of neural networks by means of modern computing substrates…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-08-28 Anna Zakharova , Vladimir V. Semenov

In this work, we derive reduced interface models for hydroelastic water waves coupled to a nonlinear viscoelastic plate. In a weakly nonlinear small-steepness regime we obtain bidirectional nonlocal evolution equations capturing the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Diego Alonso-Orán , Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Juliana S. Ziebell

We study the pore-scale transport of a conservative scalar forming an advancing mixing front, which can be re-interpreted to predict instantaneous mixing-limited bimolecular reactions. We investigate this using a set of two-dimensional,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-07 Saif Farhat , Guillem Sole-Mari , Diogo Bolster

We study the genetic interfaces between two species of an expanding colony that consists of individual microorganisms that reproduce and undergo diffusion, both at the frontier and in the interior. Within the bulk of the colony, the genetic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Jonathan Bauermann , David R. Nelson

When dense granular systems are exposed to external forcing, they evolve on the time scale that is typically related to the externally imposed one (shear or compression rate, for example). This evolution could be characterized by observing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-02 Lou Kondic , Miroslav Kramar , Lenka Kovalcinova , Konstantin Mischaikow

We investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of coupled circle map lattices, evolving under synchronous (parallel) updating on one hand and asynchronous (random) updating rules on the other. Synchronous evolution of extended spatiotemporal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neelima Gupte , T. M. Janaki , Sudeshna Sinha

Shaping the wavefront of an incident wave to a complex scattering medium has demonstrated interesting possibilities, such as sub-diffraction wave focusing and enhancing light energy delivery. However, wavefront shaping has mainly been based…