Persistence of periodic traveling waves and Abelian integrals

Periodic Traveling Water Waves with Isobaric Streamlines

It is shown that in water of finite depth, there are no periodic traveling waves with the property that the pressure in the underlying fluid flow is constant along streamlines. In the case of infinite depth, there is only one such solution, which is due to Gerstner.

Periodic Traveling Waves in Diatomic Granular Chains

Periodic traveling waves in SIRS endemic models

Mathematical models are used to determine if infection wave fronts could occur by traveling geographically in a loop around a region or continent. These infectionwave fronts arise by Hopf bifurcation for some spatial models for infectious disease transmission with distributed-contacts. Periodic traveling waves are shown to exist for the spatial analog of the SIRS endemic model, in which the tem...

Periodic Traveling Waves and Locating Oscillating Patterns in Multidimensional Domains

We establish the existence and robustness of layered, time-periodic solutions to a reaction-diffusion equation in a bounded domain in Rn, when the diffusion coefficient is sufficiently small and the reaction term is periodic in time and bistable in the state variable. Our results suggest that these patterned, oscillatory solutions are stable and locally unique. The location of the internal laye...

Stability of Periodic Traveling Waves for Nonlinear Dispersive Equations

We study the stability and instability of periodic traveling waves for Korteweg-de Vries type equations with fractional dispersion and related, nonlinear dispersive equations. We show that a local constrained minimizer for a suitable variational problem is nonlinearly stable to period preserving perturbations. We then discuss when the associated linearized equation admits solutions exponentiall...