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Symmetry of Traveling Wave Solutions to the Allen-Cahn Equation in \Er^2
In this paper, we prove even symmetry of monotone traveling wave solutions to
the balanced Allen-Cahn equation in the entire plane. Related results for the
unbalanced Allen-Cahn equation are also discussed
Front propagation in geometric and phase field models of stratified media
We study front propagation problems for forced mean curvature flows and their
phase field variants that take place in stratified media, i.e., heterogeneous
media whose characteristics do not vary in one direction. We consider phase
change fronts in infinite cylinders whose axis coincides with the symmetry axis
of the medium. Using the recently developed variational approaches, we provide
a convergence result relating asymptotic in time front propagation in the
diffuse interface case to that in the sharp interface case, for suitably
balanced nonlinearities of Allen-Cahn type. The result is established by using
arguments in the spirit of -convergence, to obtain a correspondence
between the minimizers of an exponentially weighted Ginzburg-Landau type
functional and the minimizers of an exponentially weighted area type
functional. These minimizers yield the fastest traveling waves invading a given
stable equilibrium in the respective models and determine the asymptotic
propagation speeds for front-like initial data. We further show that
generically these fronts are the exponentially stable global attractors for
this kind of initial data and give sufficient conditions under which complete
phase change occurs via the formation of the considered fronts
Solitary gravity-capillary water waves with point vortices
We construct small-amplitude solitary traveling gravity-capillary water waves
with a finite number of point vortices along a vertical line, on finite depth.
This is done using a local bifurcation argument. The properties of the
resulting waves are also examined: We find that they depend significantly on
the position of the point vortices in the water column.Comment: 36 pages, 4 figures. As accepted for publication in Discrete Cont.
Dyn. Sys
Dynamics of Patterns
This workshop focused on the dynamics of nonlinear waves and spatio-temporal patterns, which arise in functional and partial differential equations. Among the outstanding problems in this area are the dynamical selection of patterns, gaining a theoretical understanding of transient dynamics, the nonlinear stability of patterns in unbounded domains, and the development of efficient numerical techniques to capture specific dynamical effects
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