The problems under consideration are related to wave propagation in nonlinear dispersive media, characterised by higher-order nonlinear and higher-order dispersive effects. Particularly two problems — wave propagation in dilatant granular materials and wave propagation in shape-memory alloys...

The Mindlin model and hierarchical approach by Engelbrecht and Pastrone are used for modelling 1D wave propagation in microstructured solids. After introducing the free energy function, one gets from Euler–Lagrange equations a system of equations of motion. Making use of the slaving principle,...

Using a long wave expansion we study the asymptotic solutions near a critical point of a multi-anticipative car-following model. A suitable rescaling of the variables then yields a modified Korteweg–de Vries (MKdV) equation with higher order corrections. An equation of this general form has...

We analyze a system of reacting elements harmonically coupled to nearest neighbors in the continuum limit. An analytic solution is found for traveling waves. The procedure is used to find oscillatory as well as solitary waves. A comparison is made between exact solutions and solutions of the...

We introduce a differential-difference KP equation with self-consistent sources (DΔ KPESCS) which is a generalization of the DΔ KP equation. The integrability of the differential-difference equation is shown through bilinear transformation method and Wronskian technique: it possesses N-soliton...

An averaged mode-locking model is presented in which the nonlinear mode-coupling behavior in a wave-guide array, dual-core fiber, and/or fiber array is used to achieve stable and robust passive mode-locking. By using the discrete, nearest-neighbor spatial coupling of these nonlinear...