Diffraction of a non-stationary linearly inhomogeneous acoustic wave which slides off a semi-infinite soft screen

An exact analytical solution of a new non-stationary scalar diffraction problem is obtained and analysed. A plane acoustic wave with a profile in the form of a delta function propagates along a semi-infinite soft screen. The wave amplitude varies linearly along the wave front. After reaching the end of the screen it “slides” off the screen, generating a diffraction field. A special modification of the Smirnov–Sobolev method is used to find this field. The solution is obtained in the form of an elementary function. It is shown that the sliding wave excites a travelling perturbation that is unlimited along the length of the screen. A similar phenomenon obviously also occurs when elastic waves slide from a cut (crack), which must be taken into account, in particular, in fracture theory.     

缓慢调制波在多孔海床上的演化

本文采用多重尺度法分析了具有缓慢调制的波列在多孔海床上的演化问题.海床上部波浪采用了势流理论,海床下部的渗流采用了Darcy定律.两者在海床面上进行衔接,从而导出了上部波浪的波幅一阶和二阶的调制方程,并求出了相应的解,下部渗压场的解亦同时给出.     

参数激励圆柱形容器中的非线性Faraday波

在柱坐标系下,通过奇异摄动理论的多尺度展开法求解势流方程,研究了垂直强迫激励圆柱形容器中的单一模式水表面驻波模式。假设流体是无粘、不可压且运动是无旋的,在忽略了表面张力的影响下,用两变量时间展开法得到一个具有立方项以及底部驱动项影响的非线性振幅方程。对上述方程进行了数值计算,计算的结果显示了在不同驱动振幅和驱动频率下,会激发不同自由水表面驻波模式,从等高线的图像来看,和以往的实验结果相当吻合。     

Application of Fibonacci sine and cosine function to a nonlinear differential-difference equation

A new approach is constructed to obtain exact travelling wave solutions for a differential-difference equation by means of the property of the symmetrical Fibonacci sine and cosine function. As its illustration, some explicit and exact travelling wave solutions of Hybrid lattice, discretized mKdV lattice and modified Volterra lattice are obtained by computing the solutions of a lattice introduced by Wadati.     

一类非线性波方程的光滑与非光滑行波解

讨论了一类偏微分方程的行波解。该方程的行波方程对应于一个平面三次多项式系统,因而可将行波解的研究化为对平面系统所定义的相轨线的拓扑分类研究。应用平面动力系统理论在三参数空间内作定性分析,首先获得三次多项式系统的完整拓扑分类,再将相平面分析的结果返回到非线性波解u(ξ) 。考虑到解关于变量ξ=x-ct在“奇线”近旁的不连续性,可得到各种光滑与非光滑行波的存在条件。     

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.     

The interaction between sound and circulatory fluid motion as a problem in matched expansions

A circular cylinder is at rest in a compressible fluid witha given circulation K'. At time t=0 the cylinder is made tomove with low Mach number along a straight line perpendicularto its axis. A modified matching argument is used to describethe sound field induced by the lifting body. The velocity potentialin the sound field can be represented, to leading order, interms of a moving line dipole aligned along the direction ofmotion together with a transverse dipole sheet that extendsfrom the starting location of the centre of the cylinder toits current location. The next-order term is that of a movingline source. The line dipole accounts for the motion of thecylinder. The dipole sheet represents the sound field due tothe circulatory motion. If the circulation is constant, thenso is the strength of the dipole sheet and the time dependencearises from the changing length of the layer. In a more realisticcase, where vorticity is shed to form a wake behind the movingbody, there is a corresponding change in the circulation andin the strength of the evolving dipole sheet.     

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.     

Bifurcation studies on travelling wave solutions for an integrable nonlinear wave equation

By using the method of planar dynamical systems to an integrable nonlinear wave equation, the existence of periodic travelling wave, solitary wave and kink wave solutions is proved in the different parametric conditions. The phase portraits of the travelling wave system are given. It can be shown that the existence of singular curves in the travelling wave system is the reason why the travelling wave solutions lose their smoothness. Moreover, the so-called W/M-shaped solitary wave solutions are obtained.     

Interaction of a Solitary Wave with a Porous Elliptical Cylinder

In this paper the diffraction of a plane first order solitary wave by a vertical permeable elliptical cylinder is investigated and the corresponding wave loading is computed. The analytical model presented here is employs Boussinesq equations to describe the diffraction. The solution procedure is based on the perturbation theory, where a perturbation parameter defined in terms of the surface geometry of the cylinder is used. The flow through the porous cylinder is assumed to obey Darcy's law. The effects of porosity, relative wave length and the incident wave angle are discussed. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

借助Lie群研究Burgers-KdV方程行波解的可积性

运用经典Lie群方法证明Burgers-KdV方程行波解所满足的二阶非线性常微分方程当且仅当参数满足特殊情况下,恰好接受一个两参数Lie群,并用不同的方法求出方程的两个相互独立首次积分.     

Existence of travelling waves in a modified vector-disease model

In this paper, we consider travelling wave solutions for a modified vector-disease model. Special attention is paid to the model in which a susceptible vector can receive the infection not only from the infectious host but also from the infectious vector. For the strong generic delay kernel, we show that travelling wave solutions exist using the geometric singular perturbation theory.     

Approximate solutions for magmon propagation from a reservoir

^** Email: tim_marchant{at}uow.edu.au^*** Email: n.smyth{at}ed.ac.uk A 1D partial differential equation (pde) describing the flowof magma in the Earth's mantle is considered, this equationallowing for compaction and distension of the surrounding matrixdue to the magma. The equation has periodic travelling wavesolutions, one limit of which is a solitary wave, called a magmon.Modulation equations for the magma equation are derived andare found to be either hyperbolic or of mixed hyperbolic/elliptictype, depending on the specific values of the wave number, meanheight and amplitude of the underlying modulated wave. The periodicwave train is stable in the hyperbolic case and unstable inthe mixed case. Solutions of the modulation equations are foundfor an initial-boundary value problem on the semi-infinite line,these solutions representing the influx of magma from a largereservoir. The modulation solutions are found to consist ofa full or partial undular bore. Excellent agreement with numericalsolutions of the governing pde is obtained, except in the limitwhere the wave train becomes a train of magmons. An alternativeapproximation based on the assumption that the wave train isa series of uniform magmons is also derived and is found tobe superior to modulation theory in this limit.     

The influence of shelf zone topography and coastline geometry on coastal trapped waves

The results of numerical experiments with a model of coastal trapped waves are presented to identify two important features for regional modeling of the interaction of a shelf zone with open ocean. First, a wave train of this type can be formed by wind action at a considerable distance from the place of impact. The waves propagate along a coastline without significant loss of energy, provided that the coastline and shelf zone topography have no features comparable to the Rossby radius. However, the waves lose energy while passing over capes and submarine canyons and when the shelf width decreases. For regional modeling, remote generation of waves must be thoroughly investigated and taken into account. The other feature is that the propagating waves can use part of energy to form density anomalies on the shelf by raising intermediate waters from the adjacent offshore areas of the open ocean. Thus, coastal trapped waves can carry wind energy from wind action areas to other coastal areas to form density anomalies and other types of motion.     

A Stable and Accurate Numerical Method to Calculate the Motion of a Sharp Interface Between Fluids

Present address: Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide, G.P.O. Box 498, Adelaide, South Australia 5001. A spectrally accurate numerical method, which is also simpleto implement, is derived to calculate the motion of a fluidinterface. A numerical instability, typical of algorithms forthis problem, is investigated via a linearizing approximationwhich shows that a trivial adjustment of the algorithm rendersit numerically stable while retaining high accuracy. To testfor the correct implementation of the algorithm, non-linearsimultaneous equations are formulated using time derivativeinformation only from the coded procedure, whose solutions describeprogressive interfacial waves of permanent form. The behaviourof this type of algorithm when variations in the point spacingoccurs along the interface is investigated and found to cause"scattering" of travelling wave modes.     

Influence of viscous damping on friction induced travelling waves

We investigate the influence of viscous damping on the shape and stability of travelling waves induced by Coulomb friction between a rotating rigid shaft and an annular elastic cylinder. As expected, the damping causes the travelling wave solutions to become smoother and more stable. It also decreases the amplitude and range of separation solutions and may destroy the travelling waves by grazing bifurcations at large values of the damping parameters. (© 2012 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Periodic travelling waves in an artificial neural network

In a study (Szekely, Acta Physiol. Hung. 27 (1965), pp. 285–289) of the locomotion of salamanders, it is observed that a ‘doubly periodic travelling wave solution’ of a logical neural network can be used to explain a dynamic pattern of movements. We show here that a relatively simple (nonlogical) artificial neural network can also be built and necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of doubly periodic travelling wave solutions can be found. It is hoped that our investigation will set some foundation in the future design of other artificial neural networks that also allow periodic travelling wave solutions.     

The lie group and integrability of the Fisher type travelling wave equation

For the Fisher-type wave equation, which has two stable states and one unstable state, it is proved that only in two particular cases, the corresponding travelling wave equation admits a double parameter Lie group, and based on a method different to the traditional one, its two independent first integrals are given. It is proved further that in the two integrable cases, the different bounded and non-trivial travelling wave solutions, which are corresponding the invariant manifolds of the corresponding equation under the Lie transformation, can be expressed with elementary functions although they cannot be obtained directly from the two independent first integrals.     

The three-dimensional motion of optimalpyramidal bodies

The three-dimensional inertial motion of pyramidal bodies, optimal in their depth of penetration, formed from parts of planes tangential to a circular cone and having a base in the form of a rhombus or a star, consisting of four symmetrical cycles, is investigated using the numerical solution of the Cauchy problem of the complete system of equations of motion of a body. It is assumed that the force action of the medium on the body can be described within the framework of a local model, when the pressure on the body surface can be represented by a two-term formula, quadratic in the velocity, and the friction is constant. It is shown that the stability criterion, obtained previously for the rectilinear motion of a pyramidal body on the assumption that the perturbed motion of the body is planar, also enables one, in the case of an arbitrary specification of the small perturbations of the parameters leading to the tree-dimensional motion of the body, to determine the nature of development of these perturbations. It is shown that if the rectilinear motion of the body is stable, its perturbed three-dimensional motion can be represented in the form of the superposition of plane motions, and when investigating each of them, the analytical solution of the plane problem obtained earlier can be used.     

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.