Description
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on traveling waves for undergraduate and masters level students. Traveling waves are not typically covered in the undergraduate curriculum, and topics related to traveling waves are usually only covered in research papers, except for a few texts designed for students.
Table of Contents1. Nonlinear Traveling Waves. 1.1. Traveling Waves. 1.2. Reaction-Diffusion Equations. 1.3. Traveling Waves as Solutions of Reaction-Diffusion Equations. 1.4. Planar Waves. 1.5. Examples of Reaction-Diffusion Equations. 1.6. Other Partial Differential Equations that Support Waves. 2. Systems of Reaction-Diffusion Equations posed on Infinite Domains. 2.1. Systems of Reaction-Diffusion Equations. 2.2. Examples of Reaction-Diffusion Systems. 3. Existence of Fronts, Pulses, and Wavetrains. 3.1. Traveling Waves as Orbits in the Associated Dynamical Systems. 3.2. Dynamical Systems Approach: Equilibrium Points. 3.3. Existence of Fronts in Fisher-KPP Equation: Trapping Region Technique. 3.4. Existence of Fronts in Solid Fuel Combustion Model. 3.5. Wavetrains. 4. Stability of Fronts and Pulses. 4.1. Stability: Introduction. 4.2. A Heuristic Presentation of Spectral Stability for Front and Pulse Traveling Wave Solutions. 4.3. Location of the Point Spectrum. 4.4. Beyond Spectral Stability.
