Here we propose mechanisms for suppressing non-steady-state motions--propagating pulses, spiral waves, spiral-wave chaos--in excitable media. Our approach is based on two points: (1) excitable media are multistable; and (2) traveling waves in excitable media can be separated into fast and slow motions, which can be considered independently. We show that weak impulses can be used to change the v...

This paper is concerned with the existence of the traveling bands to the Keller-Segel model with cell population growth in the form of a chemical uptake kinetics. We find that when the cell growth is considered, the profile of traveling bands, the minimum wave speed and the range of the chemical consumption rate for the existence of traveling wave solutions will change. Our results reveal that ...

We establish the existence of traveling front solutions and small amplitude traveling wave train solutions for a reaction-diffusion system based on a predator-prey model with Holling type-II functional response. The traveling front solutions are equivalent to heteroclinic orbits in R(4) and the small amplitude traveling wave train solutions are equivalent to small amplitude periodic orbits in R...

The modied Zakharov–Kuznetsov (mZK) equation, ut + uux + uxxx + uxyy = 0, (1) represents an anisotropic two-dimensional generalization of the Korteweg–de Vries equation and can be derived in a magnetized plasma for small amplitude Alfvén waves at a critical angle to the undisturbed magnetic field, and has been studied by many authors because of its importance [1–5]. However, Eq. (1) possesses m...

A modified F-expansion method to find the exact traveling wave solutions of  two-component nonlinear partial differential equations (NLPDEs) is discussed. We use this method to construct many new solutions to the nonlinear Whitham-Broer-Kaup system (1+1)-dimensional. The solutions obtained include Jacobi elliptic periodic wave solutions which exactly degenerate to the soliton solutions, triangu...

In this article we are concerned with the existence and orbital stability of traveling wave solutions of a general class of nonlocal wave equations: utt − Luxx = B(±|u|u)xx, p > 1. The main characteristic of this class of equations is the existence of two sources of dispersion, characterized by two coercive pseudo-differential operatorsL and B. Members of the class arise as mathematical models ...

We present some variants of Burgers-type equations for incompressible and isothermal planar flow of viscous non-Newtonian fluids based on the Cross, the Carreau and the power-law rheology models, and on a symmetry assumption on the flow. We numerically solve the associated traveling wave equations by using industrial data and in order to validate the models we prove existence and uniqueness of ...

A midsystolic plateau differentiates the pattern of fetal pulmonary trunk blood flow from aortic flow. To determine whether this plateau arises from interactions between the left (LV) and right ventricle (RV) via the ductus arteriosus or from interactions between the RV and the lung vasculature, we measured blood flows and pressures in the pulmonary trunk and aorta of eight anesthetized (ketami...

In this paper, we employ extended tanh-function method and the (G0 G )-expansion method to find the exact traveling wave solutions involving parameters of nonlinear evolution equation Modified Liouville equation and comparison between this two method and another method which have been solved it. When these parameters are taken to be special values, the solitary wave solutions are derived from t...

Based on Codeço's cholera model (2001), an epidemic cholera model that incorporates the pathogen diffusion and disease-related death is proposed. The formula for minimal wave speed c (∗) is given. To prove the existence of traveling wave solutions, an invariant cone is constructed by upper and lower solutions and Schauder's fixed point theorem is applied. The nonexistence of traveling wave solu...