As a result of the cochlea's nonlinear mechanics, stimulation by two tones results in the generation of distortion products (DPs) at frequencies flanking the primary tones. DPs are measurable in the ear canal as oto-acoustic emissions, and are used to noninvasively explore cochlear mechanics and diagnose hearing loss. Theories of DP emissions generally include both forward and reverse cochlear ...

Sound-evoked vibrations transmitted into the mammalian cochlea produce traveling waves that provide the mechanical tuning necessary for spectral decomposition of sound. These traveling waves of motion that have been observed to propagate longitudinally along the basilar membrane (BM) ultimately stimulate the mechano-sensory receptors. The tectorial membrane (TM) plays a key role in this process...

In this paper we show how to construct the Evans function for traveling wave solutions of integral neural field equations when the firing rate function is a Heaviside. This allows a discussion of wave stability and bifurcation as a function of system parameters, including the speed and strength of synaptic coupling and the speed of axonal signals. The theory is illustrated with the construction...

This article concerns the bistable traveling wavefronts of a nonlocal dispersal equation with convolution type bistable nonlinearity. Applying a homotopy method, we establish the existence of traveling wavefronts. If the wave speed does not vanish, i.e. c 6= 0, then the uniqueness (up to translation) and the globally asymptotical stability of traveling wavefronts are proved by the comparison pr...

An integrable 2-component Camassa-Holm 2-CH shallow water system is studied by using integral bifurcation method together with a translation-dilation transformation. Many traveling wave solutions of nonsingular type and singular type, such as solitary wave solutions, kink wave solutions, loop soliton solutions, compacton solutions, smooth periodic wave solutions, periodic kink wave solution, si...

The paper deals with the traveling wave cylindrical heating systems. analysis presented is analytical and a multi-layer model using geometry used to obtain theoretical results. To validate results, practical constructed, tested results are compared ones. Comparison showed that adopted method efficient in describing performance of such induction

The spreading speeds and traveling waves are established for a class of non-monotone discrete-time integrodifference equation models. It is shown that the spreading speed is linearly determinate and coincides with the minimal wave speed of traveling waves.

Existence of traveling wave solutions for some lattice differential equations is investigated. We prove that there exists c 0 ∗ > such that for each c c∗ ≥ , the systems under consideration admit monotonic nondecreasing traveling waves.

in this paper, the modified simplest equation method is successfully implemented to find travelling wave solutions of the generalized forms $b(n,1)$ and $b(-n,1)$ of burgers equation.this method is direct, effective and easy to calculate, and it is a powerful mathematical tool for obtaining exact travelling wave solutions of the generalized forms $b(n,1)$ and $b(-n,1)$ of burgers equation and c...

Broadband transient sounds, such as clicks and consonants, activate a traveling wave in the cochlea. This wave evokes firing in auditory nerve fibers that are tuned to high frequencies several milliseconds earlier than in fibers tuned to low frequencies. Despite this substantial traveling wave delay, octopus cells in the brainstem receive broadband input and respond to clicks with submillisecon...