In this article, we introduce an ansatz involving exact traveling wave solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations. To obtain wave solutions using direct method, the choice of an appropriate ansatz is of great importance. We apply this ansatz to examine new and further general traveling wave solutions to the (1+1)-dimensional modified Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation. Abundant traveling ...

We report an experimental study of traveling-wave convection patterns in a binary mixture of ethanol and water. We survey the patterns observed in a large aspect ratio cylindrical container over a broad range of Rayleigh numbers. It is found that disordered patterns observed immediately after travelingwave convection is initiated evolve toward organized multi-domain patterns, and that the natur...

Employing theoretical models, we show that the sterile insect release method (SIRM) can give rise to traveling waves of fertile insects. The velocity of these waves depends critically upon the density of sterile insects (and thus upon the rate at which sterile individuals are being released into the environment). When the sterile density is sufficiently low, the traveling wave advances, giving ...

Cochlear emissions provide a noninvasive probe of cochlear mechanics, but their utility is hindered by incomplete understanding of their relationship to intracochlear activity. In particular, recent work has uncovered a question about the mode by which emissions travel out of the cochlea -whether they emerge via a “fast” compression pressure or a “slow” traveling-wave pressure. We further probe...

Ray-wave geometric beam is an exotic kind of structured light with ray-wave duality and coupled diverse degrees freedom (DoFs), which has attracted intense attention due to its potential applications in theories applications. This work offers a new insight that the traditional beams can be seen as transverse standing-wave (SW) beams, decomposed into superposition traveling-wave (TW) beams. We c...

Traveling wave solutions to a class of dispersive models, ut − utxx + uux = θuuxxx + (1− θ)uxuxx, are investigated in terms of the parameter θ, including two integrable equations, the Camassa-Holm equation, θ = 1/3, and the Degasperis-Procesi equation, θ = 1/4, as special models. It was proved in [H. Liu and Z. Yin, Contemporary Mathematics, 2011, 526, pp273–294] that when 1/2 < θ ≤ 1 smooth so...

In this paper, based on the known first integral method, we try to seek the traveling wave solutions of several nonlinear evolution equations. As a result, some exact travelig wave solutions and solitary solutions for Whitham-Broer-Kaup (WBK) equations, Gardner equation, Boussinesq-Burgers equations, nonlinear schrodinger equation and mKDV equation are established successfully. Key–Words: First...

We show that finite external excitation can lead to a traveling wave in an excitable passive optical system with one-dimensional space geometry. We have studied the excitable behavior of this system in parallel with that of its diffusive counterpart and show the effects of optical phase on the traveling-wave solution and its velocity. In two-dimensional space we observe numerically rotating opt...

We investigate traveling wave solutions to a class of dispersive models – the θ-equation of the form ut − utxx + uux = θuuxxx + (1− θ)uxuxx, including two integrable equations, the Camassa-Holm equation (θ = 1/3) and the Degasperis-Procesi equation(θ = 1/4) as special models. When 0 ≤ θ ≤ 1 2 , strong solutions of the θ-equation may blow-up in finite time, correspondingly, the traveling wave so...

In this paper, we consider the spatial dynamics for a non-cooperative diffusion system arising from epidermal wound healing. We shall establish the spreading speed and existence of traveling waves and characterize the spreading speed as the slowest speed of a family of non-constant traveling wave solutions. We also construct some new types of entire solutions which are different from the travel...