Numerical computation of sharp travelling waves of a degenerate diffusion–reaction equation arising in biofilm modelling

Many degenerate diffusion–reaction equations permit sharp travelling wave solutions that describe the propagation of an interface with finite speed. If the equation is at least double degenerate, the derivative of the travelling wave solution can blow up at the interface, which poses considerable challenges for the computation of the travelling wave speed. We propose a numerical method for this problem that is based on the idea to approximate the multiple degenerate problem by a family of simple degenerate problems. For the latter we propose an interval-bracketing algorithm based on the theory of Sanchez-Garduno and Maini. The travelling wave speed of the original problem is obtained as the limit of the travelling wave speeds of the auxiliary problems. The performance of the method is investigated in a numerical simulation experiment for a problem that arises in the mathematical modelling of biofilm processes.     

Qualitative Analysis and Travelling Wave Solutions for the Generalized Pochhammer–Chree Equation with a Dissipation Term

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the influence of dissipation on travelling wave solutions of the generalized Pochhammer–Chree equation with a dissipation term, and provides travelling wave solutions for this equation. Applying the theory of planar dynamical systems, we obtain ten global phase portraits of the dynamic system corresponding to this equation under various parameter conditions. Moreover, we present the relations between the properties of travelling wave solutions and the dissipation coefficient r of this equation. We find that a bounded travelling wave solution appears as a bell profile solitary wave solution or a periodic travelling wave solution when r= 0; a bounded travelling wave solution appears as a kink profile solitary wave solution when |r| > 0 is large; a bounded travelling wave solution appears as a damped oscillatory solution when |r| > 0 is small. Further, by using undetermined coefficient method, we get all possible bell profile solitary wave solutions and approximate damped oscillatory solutions for this equation. Error estimates indicate that the approximate solutions are meaningful.     

Computation of Travelling Combustion Waves in a Porous Medium

Numerical solutions for travelling combustion waves in a porous medium are sought. The algorithm of computation is based on a shooting method used in an existence proof. The numerical result suggests that there is a limit for the inlet gas velocity below which no travelling wave solution can be constructed.     

一类广义非线性强阻尼扰动发展方程的行波解

研究了一类非线性强阻尼广义扰动发展方程问题.它们在数学、力学、物理学等领域中广泛出现.首先,引入一个行波变换,把相应的偏微分方程问题转化为行波方程问题并求出原典型问题的精确解.再用小参数方法和引入伸长变量构造了问题的渐近解.最后, 用泛函分析的不动点理论证明了原非线性强阻尼广义扰动发展方程初值问题渐近行波解的存在性,并证明渐近解具有较高的精度和一致有效性.该文求得的渐近解是一个解析展开式, 所以它还可继续进行解析运算, 而单纯用数值模拟的方法是不行的.     

一类趋化性生物模型行波解的存在性

我们研究了一类趋化性(Chemotaxis)生物模型在不同情形下行波解的存在性.对D=0的一些情形,利用相平面分析的方法得到了行波解存在的充分必要条件;对D>0的一些情形得到了行波解的存在性,改进了Nagai和Ikeda原有的结果.     

Nonuniqueness for the vanishing viscosity solution with fixed initial condition in a nonstrictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws

We consider the Riemann problem for a system of two decoupled, nonstrictly hyperbolic, Burgers-like conservation equations with added artificial viscosity. We analytically establish two different vanishing viscosity limits for the solution of this system, which correspond to the two cases where one of the viscosities vanishes much faster than the other. This is done without altering the initial condition as is necessary with travelling wave methods. Numerical evidence is then provided to show that when the two viscosities vanish at the same rate, the solution converges to a limit that lies strictly between the two previously established limits. Finally, we use control theory to explain the mechanism behind this nonuniqueness behavior, which indicates other systems of nonstrictly hyperbolic conservation laws where nonuniqueness will occur.     

Dynamical understanding of loop soliton solution for several nonlinear wave equations

It has been found that some nonlinear wave equations have one-loop soliton solutions. What is the dynamical behavior of the so-called one-loop soliton solution? To answer this question, the travelling wave solutions for four nonlinear wave equations are discussed. Exact explicit parametric representations of some special travelling wave solutions are given. The results of this paper show that a loop solution consists of three different breaking travelling wave solutions. It is not one real loop soliton travelling wave solution.     

The development of slugging in two-layer hydraulic flows

In this paper, we develop a hydraulic theory to describe theoccurrence and structure of slugging in a confined two-layergas–liquid flow generated by prescribed, constant, upstreamvolumetric flow rates in each layer. A linearized theory forthe uniform flow is established, after which we use bifurcationtheory to study fully non-linear periodic travelling wave structures.We find that a two-parameter family of such travelling wavesolutions exists. Under given conditions, the volumetric flowrate constraint provides a relation between these two parameters.To select a unique periodic travelling wave solution, we requirea further relation. We first investigate the conjecture thatthe periodic travelling wave solution selected in the initialvalue problem has the same wavelength as the linearly most temporallyunstable mode. To do this, we solve the initial value problemnumerically on a periodic domain. We find that the separationof the liquid slugs that form is much longer than the wavelengthof the most unstable temporal mode. We then develop a differentconjecture based on the convective instability of the long ‘tails’of the available periodic travelling wave solutions, which leadsto a better understanding of the wavelength selection process.     

一类一维阵列的孤波特征

该文研究了一类由二自由度可积哈密顿系统构成的一维阵列的行波解,发现在长波极限下,问题可约化为分析哈密顿系统在扰动下的同异宿轨道的情形．当无扰系统具有共振时,利用能量──相方法,得到该系统存在同、异宿到不动点和周期轨的充分条件,在该条件下相应地一维阵列存在一组具有孤波特征的行波,同时给出了一个Ｎ脉冲孤立子波的例子．     

Some new travelling wave solutions with singular or nonsingular character for the higher order wave equation of KdV type (III)

In this paper, the integral bifurcation method was used to study the higher order nonlinear wave equations of KdV type (III), which was first proposed by Fokas. Some new travelling wave solutions with singular or nonsingular character are obtained. In particular, we obtain a peculiar exact solution of parametric type in this paper. This one peculiar exact solution has three kinds of wave-form including solitary wave, cusp wave and loop solion under different wave velocity conditions. This phenomenon has proved that the loop soliton solution is one continuous solution, not three breaking solutions though the loop soliton solution “is not in agreement with the Poincaré phase analysis”.     

A singular reaction–diffusion system modelling prey–predator interactions: Invasion and co-extinction waves

We consider a singular reaction–diffusion system arising in modelling prey–predator interactions in a fragile environment. Since the underlying ODEs system exhibits a complex dynamics including possible finite time quenching, one first provides a suitable notion of global travelling wave weak solution. Then our study focusses on the existence of travelling waves solutions for predator invasion in such environments. We devise a regularized problem to prove the existence of travelling wave solutions for predator invasion followed by a possible co-extinction tail for both species. Under suitable assumptions on the diffusion coefficients and on species growth rates we show that travelling wave solutions are actually positive on a half line and identically zero elsewhere, such a property arising for every admissible wave speeds.     

Existence of travelling waves with their minimal speed for a diffusing Lotka–Volterra system

Travelling waves are natural phenomena ubiquitously for reaction–diffusion systems in many scientific areas, such as in biophysics, population genetics, mathematical ecology, chemistry, chemical physics, and so on. It is pretty well understood for a diffusing Lotka–Volterra system that there exist travelling wave solutions which propagate from an equilibrium point to another one. In this paper, we prove there exists, at least, a wave front—the monotone travelling wave—with its minimal speed.     

Properties of Detonation Waves

The phenomenon of unphysical wave propagation speeds sometimes occurs in numerical computations of detonation waves on coarse grids. The strong detonation wave splits into two parts, a weak detonation which travels with the speed of one cell per time step and an ordinary shock wave. We analyse a simplified set of equations and look for travelling wave solutions. It is shown that the solution depends on the dimensionless number Kr = μK/Qρ₁. Here μ is the viscosity, K is the rate of reaction, Q is the heat release available in the process and ρ₁ is the density at the unburnt state. It is shown that the density peak of the travelling wave depends on Kr and also, that if Kr is sufficiently large there is no travelling wave solution. The erroneous behaviour above is explained as an effect of the artificial viscosity necessarily inherent in the numerical methods when coarse grids are used. To prevent this unphysical behaviour we suggest the use of an ‘artificial rate of reaction’ such that the actual value of Kr used in the numerical method retains its correct physical value.     

Nonstandard perturbation approximation and travelling wave solutions of nonlinear reaction diffusion equations

This paper deals with the construction of a nonstandard numerical method to compute the travelling wave solutions of nonlinear reaction diffusion equations at high wave speeds. Related general properties are studied using the perturbation approximation. At high wave speed the perturbation parameter approaches to zero and the problem exhibits a multiscale character. That is, there are thin layers where the solution varies rapidly, while away from these layers the solution behaves regularly and varies slowly. Most of the conventional methods fail to capture this layer behavior. Thus, the quest for some new numerical techniques that may handle the travelling wave solutions at high wave speeds earns relevance. In this paper, one such parameter robust nonstandard numerical scheme is constructed, in the sense that its numerical solution converges in the maximum norm to the exact solution uniformly well for all finite wave speeds. To overcome the difficulty due to the nonlinearity, the problem is linearized using the quasilinearization process followed by nonstandard finite difference discretization. An extensive amount of analysis is carried out which uses a suitable decomposition of the error into smooth and singular component and a comparison principle combined with appropriate barrier functions. The error estimates are obtained, which ensures uniform convergence of the method. A set of numerical experiment is carried out in support of the predicted theory that validates computationally the theoretical results. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2007     

Asymptotic behaviour of travelling waves for the delayed Fisher–KPP equation

In this work we study the behaviour of travelling wave solutions for the diffusive Hutchinson equation with time delay. Using a phase plane analysis we prove the existence of travelling wave solution for each wave speed c?2$c?2$. We show that for each given and admissible wave speed, such travelling wave solutions converge to a unique maximal wavetrain. As a consequence the existence of a nontrivial maximal wavetrain is equivalent to the existence of travelling wave solution non-converging to the stationary state u=1$u=1$.     

一类趋化性生物模型行波解的存在性与正则性

研究了一类趋化性生物模型行波解的存在性和正则性.通过直接计算得到了其行波解存在的充分必要条件;在一定条件下,研究了行波解的正则与非正则的性质;在特殊情形下给出了行波解的显式解.     

A Free Boundary Problem Arising in Smoulder Combustion

The smouldering combustion is modeled as a free boundary problem here. By using the Duvaut's transform, the problem is reduced to a variational inequality. Existence and uniqueness are established. Tbe properties of the free boundary are studied in various cases. The asymptotic behavior of the free boundary with respect to the parameter is rigorously proved, which confirms the result of a previous work by J. Adler and D. M. Herbert, obtained by using asymptotic expansion. Furthermore, we show that the time dependent problem will actually converge to a travelling wave solution if the boundary data converge to the corresponding travelling wave solution.     

New explicit solutions for the Klein-Gordon equation with cubic nonlinearity

In this paper, we investigate Klein-Gordon equation with cubic nonlinearity. All explicit expressions of the bounded travelling wave solutions for the equation are obtained by using the bifurcation method and qualitative theory of dynamical systems. These solutions contain bell-shaped solitary wave solutions, kink-shaped solitary wave solutions and Jacobi elliptic function periodic solutions. Moreover, we point out the region which these periodic wave solutions lie in. We present the relation between the bounded travelling wave solution and the energy level h. We find that these periodic wave solutions tend to the corresponding solitary wave solutions as h increases or decreases. Finally, for some special selections of the energy level h, it is shown that the exact periodic solutions evolute into solitary wave solution.     

Asymptotic stability of viscous shock wave profiles for viscous conservation laws

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic stability of travelling wave solution to the two-dimensional steady isentropic irrotational flow with artificial viscosity. We prove that there exists a unique travelling wave solution up to a shift to the system if the end states satisfy both the Rankine–Hugoniot condition and Lax's shock condition, and that the travelling wave solution is stable if the initial disturbance is small.     

The propagation of travelling waves in an open cubic autocatalytic chemical system

The reaction-diffusion travelling waves that can be initiatedin an open isothermal chemical system governed by cubic autocatalytickinetics are discussed. The system is shown to be capable ofsustaining up to three spatially uniform steady states, the(trivial) unreacted state, which is always stable (a node),and two nontrivial states, one of which is always unstable (asaddle point). The third state can change its stability throughHopf bifurcation (both subcritical and supercritical). Thisallows the possibility of two sorts of travelling wave beingestablished; there are wave profiles which connect the unreactedstate ahead to the nontrivial state at the rear, and wave profiles(pulse waves) which have the unreacted state at both the frontand rear. The conditions under which a particular wave is initiatedare considered by both a discussion of the (ordinary) differentialequations governing the travelling waves and by numerical integrationsof an initial-value problem. This treatment also reveals thepossibility of a stable travelling wave propagating throughthe system, leaving behind a temporally unstable stationarystate. Under these conditions, spatiotemporal chaotic behaviouris seen to develop after the passage of the wave.