Existence of traveling waves to any Lax shock satisfying Oleinik’s criterion in conservation laws

Given any shock wave of a conservation law where the flux function may not be convex, we want to know whether it is admissible under the criterion of vanishing viscosity/capillarity effects. In this work, we show that if the shock satisfies the Oleinik’s criterion and the Lax shock inequalities, then for an arbitrary diffusion coefficient, we can always find suitable dispersion coefficients such that the diffusive-dispersive model admits traveling waves approximating the given shock. The paper develops the method of estimating attraction domain for traveling waves we have studied before.     

Modulation theory solution for nonlinearly resonant,fifth‐order Korteweg–de Vries,nonclassical, traveling dispersive shock waves

A new class of resonant dispersive shock waves was recently identified as solutions of the Kawahara equation— a Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) type nonlinear wave equation with third‐ and fifth‐order spatial derivatives— in the regime of nonconvex, linear dispersion. Linear resonance resulting from the third‐ and fifth‐order terms in the Kawahara equation was identified as the key ingredient for nonclassical dispersive shock wave solutions. Here, nonlinear wave (Whitham) modulation theory is used to construct approximate nonclassical traveling dispersive shock wave (TDSW) solutions of the fifth‐ order KdV equation without the third derivative term, hence without any linear resonance. A self‐similar, simple wave modulation solution of the fifth order, weakly nonlinear KdV–Whitham equations is obtained that matches a constant to a heteroclinic traveling wave via a partial dispersive shock wave so that the TDSW is interpreted as a nonlinear resonance. The modulation solution is compared with full numerical solutions, exhibiting excellent agreement. The TDSW is shown to be modulationally stable in the presence of sufficiently small third‐order dispersion. The Kawahara–Whitham modulation equations transition from hyperbolic to elliptic type for sufficiently large third‐order dispersion, which provides a possible route for the TDSW to exhibit modulational instability.     

Traveling waves of a nonlocal diffusion SIRS epidemic model with a class of nonlinear incidence rates and time delay

In this paper, we study the traveling waves of a delayed SIRS epidemic model with nonlocal diffusion and a class of nonlinear incidence rates. When the basic reproduction ratio $\mathscr{R}_0>1$, by using the Schauder''s fixed point theorem associated with upper-lower solutions, we reduce the existence of traveling waves to the existence of a pair of upper-lower solutions. By constructing a pair of upper-lower solutions, we derive the existence of traveling wave solutions connecting the disease-free steady state and the endemic steady state. When $\mathscr{R}_0<1$, the nonexistence of traveling waves is obtained by the comparison principle.     

Pointwise stability estimates for periodic traveling wave solutions of systems of viscous conservation laws

In the previous paper [9], we showed time asymptotic behavior with detailed decaying rates of perturbations of periodic traveling reaction–diffusion waves under small initial perturbations with a Gaussian rate and an algebraic rate. Here, we establish pointwise nonlinear stability up to an appropriate modulation of periodic traveling waves of systems of viscous conservation laws under small algebraic decaying initial data. Similar to the reaction–diffusion equations, by using Bloch decomposition, we start with pointwise bounds on the Green function of the linearized operator about underlying solutions.     

Shock waves for compressible navier-stokes equations are stable

It is shown that shock waves for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations are nonlinearly stable. A perturbation of a shock wave tends to the shock wave, properly translated in phase, as time tends to infinity. Through the consideration of conservation of mass, momentum and energy we obtain an a priori estimate of the amount of translation of the shock wave and the strength of the linear and nonlinear diffusion waves that arise due to the perturbation. Our techniques include the energy method for parabolic-hyperbolic systems, the decomposition of waves, and the energy-characteristic method for viscous conservation laws introduced earlier by the author.     

Nonstationary solutions of a generalized Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation

Nonstationary solutions of the Cauchy problem are found for a model equation that includes complicated nonlinearity, dispersion, and dissipation terms and can describe the propagation of nonlinear longitudinal waves in rods. Earlier, within this model, complex behavior of traveling waves has been revealed; it can be regarded as discontinuity structures in solutions of the same equation that ignores dissipation and dispersion. As a result, for standard self-similar problems whose solutions are constructed from a sequence of Riemann waves and shock waves with stationary structure, these solutions become multivalued. The interaction of counterpropagating (or copropagating) nonlinear waves is studied in the case when the corresponding self-similar problems on the collision of discontinuities have a nonunique solution. In addition, situations are considered when the interaction of waves for large times gives rise to asymptotics containing discontinuities with nonstationary periodic oscillating structure.     

Existence and stability of traveling waves for an integro-differential equation for slow erosion

We study an integro-differential equation that describes the slow erosion of granular flow. The equation is a first order nonlinear conservation law where the flux function includes an integral term. We show that there exist unique traveling wave solutions that connect profiles with equilibrium slope at ±∞. Such traveling waves take very different forms from those in standard conservation laws. Furthermore, we prove that the traveling wave profiles are locally stable, i.e., solutions with monotone initial data approach the traveling waves asymptotically as t→+∞$t\to +\infty$.     

Traveling waves for a reaction–diffusion–advection predator–prey model

In this paper we study a reaction–diffusion–advection predator–prey model in a river. The existence of predator-invasion traveling wave solutions and prey-spread traveling wave solutions in the upstream and downstream directions is established and the corresponding minimal wave speeds are obtained. While some crucial improvements in theoretical methods have been established, the proofs of the existence and nonexistence of such traveling waves are based on Schauder’s fixed-point theorem, LaSalle’s invariance principle and Laplace transform. Based on theoretical results, we investigate the effect of the hydrological and biological factors on minimal wave speeds and hence on the spread of the prey and the invasion of the predator in the river. The linear determinacy of the predator–prey Lotka–Volterra system is compared with nonlinear determinacy of the competitive Lotka–Volterra system to investigate the mechanics of linear and nonlinear determinacy.     

Traveling waves for a reaction–diffusion–advection system with interior or boundary losses

This Note deals with the existence and qualitative properties of traveling wave solutions of a nonlinear reaction–diffusion system with losses inside the domain. In particular, we show the existence of a continuum of admissible speeds of traveling waves. Lastly, by considering losses concentrated near the boundary of the domain, these results are compared with those already known in the case of losses on the boundary.     

用L~2能量法研究粘性守恒律解的渐近性态(英文)

本文讨论单个粘性守恒律方程与具有粘性的ｐ方程组的Ｃａｕｃｈｙ问题．根据初始资料的不同情形,其相应的Ｒｉｅｍａｎｎ问题以疏散波,激波或它们的迭加为弱解．本文的目的是指出Ｃａｕｃｈｙ问题的解将分别趋于疏散波,激波或它们的迭加．本文基本方法是能量积分法．文中综述了现有的成果,也提出了一些未解决的问题．     

Some Perturbation Problems on 2x2 Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

We study in this paper the perturbation of elementary waves with interactions: overtaking of shock waves belonging to the same characteristic family and penetrating of a shock wave and a rarefaction wave belonging to the different characteristic family for 2 × 2 genuinely nonlinear strictly hyperbolic conservation laws. The entropy solutions for the perturbed problems are obtained by the Glimm's scheme.     

Diffusive-dispersive traveling waves and kinetic relations III. An hyperbolic model of elastodynamics

This is the third part of a series devoted to the existence, uniqueness, monotonicity, and asymptotic properties of the traveling wave solutions of diffusive-dispersive conservation law. In this part, we focus attention on a nonconvex hyperbolic model of two conservation laws arising in nonlinear elastodynamics and including nonlinear viscosity and capillarity terms. On one hand, using the techniques developed earlier, we study the properties of the corresponding classical and nonclassical shock waves and their corresponding kinetic relation. Several new features are found for this (hyperbolic) model: First of all, we distinguish here between a kinetic function and an inverse kinetic function; the latter is always globally defined but may fail to be globally invertible. Second, we show that shock waves with sufficiently small amplitude are always classical, for a fixed ratio of diffusion and dispersion. Third, we determine here the asymptotic behavior of the kinetic function for both shocks with large and small amplitudes.

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Sunto  Questa è la terza parte di una serie di lavori dedicati all'esistenza, unicità, monotonia e proprietà asintotiche delle soluzioni d'onda di propagazione per leggi di conservazione diffusive-dispersive. In questa parte, l'attenzione è focalizzata su un modello iperbolico non convesso di due leggi di conservazione che sorgono in elastodinamica non lineare, che tengono conto della viscosità non lineare e dei termini di capillarità. Da una parte, utilizzando le tecniche precedentemente sviluppate, studiamo le proprietà delle corrispondenti onde d'urto classiche e non classiche e le loro corrispondenti relazioni cinetiche. Diverse nuove proprietà sono state trovate per questo modello (iperbolico). Innanzitutto, qui distinguiamo tra una funzione cinetica ed una funzione cinetica inversa, quest'ultima essendo sempre definita globalmente ma possibilimente non sempre globalmente iinvertibile. In secondo luogo, mostriamo che onde d'urto con ampiezza sufficientemente piccola sono sempre classiche, per un valore fissato del rapporto tra diffusione e dispersione. In ultimo, determiniamo il comportamento asintotico della funzione cinetica per onde d'urto aventi sia ampiezza grande sia piccola.

     

Asymptotic nonlinear stability of traveling waves to conservation laws arising from chemotaxis

In this paper, we establish the existence and the nonlinear stability of traveling wave solutions to a system of conservation laws which is transformed, by a change of variable, from the well-known Keller-Segel model describing cell (bacteria) movement toward the concentration gradient of the chemical that is consumed by the cells. We prove the existence of traveling fronts by the phase plane analysis and show the asymptotic nonlinear stability of traveling wave solutions without the smallness assumption on the wave strengths by the method of energy estimates.     

Existence and Stability of Traveling Waves for Degenerate Reaction–Diffusion Equation with Time Delay

This paper deals with the existence and stability of traveling wave solutions for a degenerate reaction–diffusion equation with time delay. The degeneracy of spatial diffusion together with the effect of time delay causes us the essential difficulty for the existence of the traveling waves and their stabilities. In order to treat this case, we first show the existence of smooth- and sharp-type traveling wave solutions in the case of \(c\ge c^*\) for the degenerate reaction–diffusion equation without delay, where \(c^*>0\) is the critical wave speed of smooth traveling waves. Then, as a small perturbation, we obtain the existence of the smooth non-critical traveling waves for the degenerate diffusion equation with small time delay \(\tau >0\). Furthermore, we prove the global existence and uniqueness of \(C^{\alpha ,\beta }\)-solution to the time-delayed degenerate reaction–diffusion equation via compactness analysis. Finally, by the weighted energy method, we prove that the smooth non-critical traveling wave is globally stable in the weighted \(L^1\)-space. The exponential convergence rate is also derived.     

Existence of traveling waves associated with Lax shocks which violate Oleinik’s entropy criterion

This paper answers to the question whether a shock wave in conservation laws satisfying the Lax shock inequalities but not Oleinik’s entropy criterion is admissible under the vanishing viscosity-capillarity effects. Such a shock appears in van der Waals fluids when a secant line meets the graph of the flux function at four distinct points, and the shock jumps between the two farthest points. The existence of the corresponding traveling waves would justify the admissibility of the shock. For this purpose, we will first show that the corresponding traveling waves satisfy a system of differential equations with two saddle points and two asymptotically stable points. Second, we estimate the domains of attraction of the asymptotically stable equilibrium points, relying on Lyapunov’s stability theory. Third, we investigate the circumstances when an unstable trajectory leaving the saddle point corresponding to the left-hand state of the shock will ever enter the domain of attraction of each of the two asymptotically stable equilibrium points. Finally, we establish the existence of traveling waves associated with a Lax shock but violating the Oleinik’s entropy criterion.     

Smooth and non-smooth traveling wave solutions of some generalized Camassa–Holm equations

In this paper we employ two recent analytical approaches to investigate the possible classes of traveling wave solutions of some members of a recently-derived integrable family of generalized Camassa–Holm (GCH) equations. A recent, novel application of phase-plane analysis is employed to analyze the singular traveling wave equations of three of the GCH NLPDEs, i.e. the possible non-smooth peakon and cuspon solutions. One of the considered GCH equations supports both solitary (peakon) and periodic (cuspon) cusp waves in different parameter regimes. The second equation does not support singular traveling waves and the last one supports four-segmented, non-smooth M-wave solutions.Moreover, smooth traveling waves of the three GCH equations are considered. Here, we use a recent technique to derive convergent multi-infinite series solutions for the homoclinic orbits of their traveling-wave equations, corresponding to pulse (kink or shock) solutions respectively of the original PDEs. We perform many numerical tests in different parameter regime to pinpoint real saddle equilibrium points of the corresponding GCH equations, as well as ensure simultaneous convergence and continuity of the multi-infinite series solutions for the homoclinic orbits anchored by these saddle points. Unlike the majority of unaccelerated convergent series, high accuracy is attained with relatively few terms. We also show the traveling wave nature of these pulse and front solutions to the GCH NLPDEs.     

Pointwise convergence to shock waves for viscous conservation laws

We are interested in the pointwise behavior of the perturbations of shock waves for viscous conservation laws. It is shown that, besides a translation of the shock waves and of linear and nonlinear diffusion waves of heat and Burgers equations, a perturbation also gives rise to algebraically decaying terms, which measure the coupling of waves of different characteristic families. Our technique is a combination of time-asymptotic expansion, construction of approximate Green functions, and analysis of nonlinear wave interactions. The pointwise estimates yield optimal L_p convergence of the perturbation to the shock and diffusion waves, 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞. The new approach of obtaining pointwise estimates based on the Green functions for the linearized system and the analysis of nonlinear wave interactions is also useful for studying the stability of waves of distinct types and nonclassical shocks. These are being explored elsewhere. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

The Exact Solutions for the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony Equation

The Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation represents the unidirectional propagation of nonlinear dispersive long waves, which has a clear physical background, and is a more suitable mathematical and physical equation than the KdV equation. Therefore, the research on the BBM equation is very important. In this article, we put forward an effective algorithm, the modified hyperbolic function expanding method, to build the solutions of the BBM equation. We, by utilizing the modified hyperbolic function expanding method, obtain the traveling wave solutions of the BBM equation. When the parameters are taken as special values, the solitary waves are also derived from the traveling waves. The traveling wave solutions are expressed by the hyperbolic functions, the trigonometric functions and the rational functions. The modified hyperbolic function expanding method is direct, concise, elementary and effective, and can be used for many other nonlinear partial differential equations.     

Explicit traveling wave solutions of five kinds of nonlinear evolution equations

First of all, by using Bernoulli equations, we develop some technical lemmas. Then, we establish the explicit traveling wave solutions of five kinds of nonlinear evolution equations: nonlinear convection diffusion equations (including Burgers equations), nonlinear dispersive wave equations (including Korteweg-de Vries equations), nonlinear dissipative dispersive wave equations (including Ginzburg-Landau equation, Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation and Benjamin-Bona-Mahony-Burgers equation), nonlinear hyperbolic equations (including Sine-Gordon equation) and nonlinear reaction diffusion equations (including Belousov-Zhabotinskii system of reaction diffusion equations).