The parabolic equation (nonlinear Schrödinger equation) that appears in problems of stationary nonlinear beam propagation (self-focusing) is reconsidered. It is shown that an additional term, which involves changes of the propagation constant along the propagation direction, should be taken into account. The physical consequences of this departure from the standard approximation, which uses the...

We study the large time behavior of solutions for the semilinear parabolic equation ∆u+V up−ut = 0. Under a general and natural condition on V = V (x) and the initial value u0, we show that global positive solutions of the parabolic equation converge pointwise to positive solutions of the corresponding elliptic equation. As a corollary of this, we recapture the global existence results on semil...

Recent improvements in the parabolic equation method are combined to extend this approach to a larger class of seismo-acoustics problems. The variable rotated parabolic equation [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 3534-3538 (2006)] handles a sloping fluid-solid interface at the ocean bottom. The single-scattering solution [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121, 808-813 (2007)] handles range dependence within elastic s...

The \closure problem" is a well known and widely discussed problem in transport theory. From the full transport equation one can derive a (innnite) sequence of hyperbolic subsystems for the moments. The question arises how to close the system for the rst n moments. In case of Boltzmann equations it can be answered in the theory of extended thermodynamics. Here we consider transport equations wh...

It is well known that for many semilinear parabolic equations there is a global attractor which has a cell complex structure with finite dimensional cells. Additionally, many semilinear parabolic equations have equilibria with finite dimensional unstable manifolds. In this article, these results are unified to show that for a specific parabolic equation on an unbounded domain, the space of hete...

TVaub and Wozniakowski have dealt with the complexity of some simple partial differential equations. They chose three model problems and showed that the parabolic problem considered had significantly lower complexity than the elliptic problem, which in turn had significantly lower complexity than the hyperbolic problem considered. They asked whether this is true in general. We show that this is...

We present the nonautonomous discrete bright soliton solutions and their interactions in the discrete Ablowitz-Ladik (DAL) equation with variable coefficients, which possesses complicated wave propagation in time and differs from the usual bright soliton waves. The differential-difference similarity transformation allows us to relate the discrete bright soliton solutions of the inhomogeneous DA...

In this paper, oscillation and asymptotic properties of solutions of the Dirichlet boundary value problem for hyperbolic and parabolic equations are considered. We demonstrate that introducing an arbitrary constant delay essentially changes the above properties. For instance, the delay equation does not inherit the classical properties of the Dirichlet boundary value problem for the heat equati...

TVaub and Wozniakowski have dealt with the complexity of some simple partial differential equations. They chose three model problems and showed that the parabolic problem considered had significantly lower complexity than the elliptic problem, which in turn had significantly lower complexity than the hyperbolic problem considered. They asked whether this is true in general. We show that this is...

the extended homogeneous balance method is used to construct exacttraveling wave solutions of the maccari system, in which thehomogeneous balance method is applied to solve the riccati equationand the reduced nonlinear ordinary differential equation. many exacttraveling wave solutions of the maccari system equation aresuccessfully obtained.