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Bifurcation of Localized Disturbances in a Model Biochemical Reaction
Asymptotic solutions are presented to the nonlinear parabolic reaction-diffusion equations describing a model biochemical reaction proposed by I. Prigogine. There is a uniform steady state which, for certain values of the adjustable parameters, may be unstable. When the uniform solution is slightly unstable, the two-timing method is used to find the bifurcation of new solutions of small amplitude. These may be either nonuniform steady states or time-periodic solutions, depending on the ratio of the diffusion coefficients. When one of the parameters is allowed to depend on space and the basic state is unstable, it is found that the nonuniform steady state which is approached may show localized spatial oscillations. The localization arises out of the presence of turning points in the linearized stability equations
Existence and stability of traveling waves in parabolic systems of differential equations with weak diffusion
The aim of the present paper is to investigate of some properties of periodic solutions of a nonlinear autonomous parabolic systems with a periodic condition. We investigate parabolic systems of differential equations using an integral manifolds method of the theory of nonlinear oscillations. We prove the existence of periodic solutions in an autonomous parabolic system of differential equations with weak diffusion on the circle. We study the existence and stability of an arbitrarily large finite number of cycles for a parabolic system with weak diffusion. The periodic solution of parabolic equation is sought in the form of traveling wave. A representation of the integral manifold is obtained. We seek a solution of parabolic system with the periodic condition in the form of a Fourier series in the complex form and introduce a norm in the space of the coefficients in the Fourier expansion. We use the normal forms method in the general parabolic system of differential equations with retarded argument and weak diffusion. We use bifurcation theory for delay differential equations and quasilinear parabolic equations. The existence of periodic solutions in an autonomous parabolic system of differential equations on the circle with retarded argument and small diffusion is proved. The problems of existence and stability of traveling waves in the parabolic system with retarded argument and weak diffusion are investigated
Dynamical stabilization of matter-wave solitons revisited
We consider dynamical stabilization of Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) by
time-dependent modulation of the scattering length. The problem has been
studied before by several methods: Gaussian variational approximation, the
method of moments, method of modulated Townes soliton, and the direct averaging
of the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation. We summarize these methods and find that
the numerically obtained stabilized solution has different configuration than
that assumed by the theoretical methods (in particular a phase of the
wavefunction is not quadratic with ). We show that there is presently no
clear evidence for stabilization in a strict sense, because in the numerical
experiments only metastable (slowly decaying) solutions have been obtained. In
other words, neither numerical nor mathematical evidence for a new kind of
soliton solutions have been revealed so far. The existence of the metastable
solutions is nevertheless an interesting and complicated phenomenon on its own.
We try some non-Gaussian variational trial functions to obtain better
predictions for the critical nonlinearity for metastabilization but
other dynamical properties of the solutions remain difficult to predict
Global regularity of weak solutions to quasilinear elliptic and parabolic equations with controlled growth
We establish global regularity for weak solutions to quasilinear divergence
form elliptic and parabolic equations over Lipschitz domains with controlled
growth conditions on low order terms. The leading coefficients belong to the
class of BMO functions with small mean oscillations with respect to .Comment: 24 pages, to be submitte
Oscillations of dark solitons in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
We consider a one-dimensional defocusing Gross--Pitaevskii equation with a
parabolic potential. Dark solitons oscillate near the center of the potential
trap and their amplitude decays due to radiative losses (sound emission). We
develop a systematic asymptotic multi-scale expansion method in the limit when
the potential trap is flat. The first-order approximation predicts a uniform
frequency of oscillations for the dark soliton of arbitrary amplitude. The
second-order approximation predicts the nonlinear growth rate of the
oscillation amplitude, which results in decay of the dark soliton. The results
are compared with the previous publications and numerical computations.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
Stability and collapse of localized solutions of the controlled three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation
On the basis of recent investigations, a newly developed analytical procedure
is used for constructing a wide class of localized solutions of the controlled
three-dimensional (3D) Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) that governs the
dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). The controlled 3D GPE is
decomposed into a two-dimensional (2D) linear Schr\"{o}dinger equation and a
one-dimensional (1D) nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation, constrained by a
variational condition for the controlling potential. Then, the above class of
localized solutions are constructed as the product of the solutions of the
transverse and longitudinal equations. On the basis of these exact 3D
analytical solutions, a stability analysis is carried out, focusing our
attention on the physical conditions for having collapsing or non-collapsing
solutions.Comment: 21 pages, 14 figure
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