Stability of nonlinear waves and patterns and related topics

Periodic and localized travelling waves such as wave trains, pulses, fronts and patterns of more complex structure often occur in natural and experimentally built systems. In mathematics, these objects are realized as solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. The existence, dynamic prop...

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Published in:Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences physical, and engineering sciences, 2018-04, Vol.376 (2117), p.20180001-20180001
Main Authors: Ghazaryan, Anna, Lafortune, Stephane, Manukian, Vahagn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bifurcations
Evans Function
Hamiltonian Systems
Introduction
Maslov Index
Nonlinear differential equations
Nonlinear equations
Partial differential equations
Patterns
Stability
Stability analysis
Traveling waves
Wave packets
Waves
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Summary:Periodic and localized travelling waves such as wave trains, pulses, fronts and patterns of more complex structure often occur in natural and experimentally built systems. In mathematics, these objects are realized as solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. The existence, dynamic properties and bifurcations of those solutions are of interest. In particular, their stability is important for applications, as the waves that are observable are usually stable. When the waves are unstable, further investigation is warranted of the way the instability is exhibited, i.e. the nature of the instability, and also coherent structures that appear as a result of an instability of travelling waves. A variety of analytical, numerical and hybrid techniques are used to study travelling waves and their properties. This article is part of the theme issue 'Stability of nonlinear waves and patterns and related topics'.
ISSN:1364-503X
1471-2962
DOI:10.1098/rsta.2018.0001