in this paper, a new algorithm for studying elastic wave propagation in the phononic crystals is presented. at first, the displacement-based forms of elastic wave equations are derived and then the forms are discretized using finite difference method. so the new algorithm is called the displacement-based finite difference time domain (dbfdtd). three numerical examples are computed with this met...

This survey reviews some of the recent work on semilinear wave equations, in particular the wave map equation. We discuss wellposedness, as well as the construction of special solutions and their stability. Mathematics Subject Classification (2010). 35L05, 35L52, 37K40, 37K45, 53Z05

Waves occur in many aspects of our daily lives and in the nature which surrounds us. Just take a stone and throw it into a resting water surface: you will observe a surface wave, spreading in concentric circles around the impact point on the water. Or think of the high breaking waves in the ocean which are so highly desirable for surf champions. Less pleasantly, there are the energy waves gener...

In this paper, we study a class of nonlinear Schrödinger equations (NLS) which admit families of small solitary wave solutions. We consider solutions which are small in the energy space H, and decompose them into solitary wave and dispersive wave components. The goal is to establish the asymptotic stability of the solitary wave and the asymptotic completeness of the dispersive wave. That is, we...

This paper deals with a new Gronwall-like integral inequality which is a generalization of integral inequalities proved by Engler (1989) and Pachpatte (1992). The new Gronwall-like integral inequality can be used in various problems in the theory of certain class of ordinary and integral equations. 1. Introduction. It is well known that integral inequalities play a very crucial role in the stud...

Binary symmetry constraints of the N -wave interaction equations in 1 + 1 and 2 + 1 dimensions are proposed to reduce the N -wave interaction equations into finite-dimensional Liouville integrable systems. A new involutive and functionally independent system of polynomial functions is generated from an arbitrary order square matrix Lax operator and used to show the Liouville integrability of th...

In this paper we study the Cauchy problem for the semilinear stochastic wave equation (@ 2