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Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2018 Apr 13;376(2117). doi: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0001.

Stability of nonlinear waves and patterns and related topics.

Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences

Anna Ghazaryan, Stephane Lafortune, Vahagn Manukian

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA [email protected].
  2. Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424, USA.
  3. Department of Mathematics, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA.
  4. Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Miami University, Hamilton, OH 45011, USA.

PMID: 29507181 PMCID: PMC5869617 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0001

Abstract

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'.

© 2018 The Author(s).

Keywords: Evans function; Hamiltonian systems; Maslov index; patterns; stability; waves

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