Periodic localized traveling waves in the two-dimensional suspension bridge equation

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Main Authors: van der Aalst, Lindsey, Berg, Jan Bouwe van den, Lessard, Jean-Philippe
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author van der Aalst, Lindsey
Berg, Jan Bouwe van den
Lessard, Jean-Philippe
author_facet van der Aalst, Lindsey
Berg, Jan Bouwe van den
Lessard, Jean-Philippe
contents In the dynamics generated by the suspension bridge equation, traveling waves are an essential feature. The existing literature focuses primarily on the idealized one-dimensional case, while traveling structures in two spatial dimensions have only been studied via numerical simulations. We use computer-assisted proof methods based on a Newton-Kantorovich type argument to find and prove periodic localized traveling waves in two dimensions. The main obstacle is the exponential nonlinearity in combination with the resulting large amplitude of the localized waves. Our analysis hinges on establishing computable bounds to control the aliasing error in the computed Fourier coefficients. This leads to existence proofs of different traveling wave solutions, accompanied by small, explicit, rigorous bounds on the deficiency of numerical approximations. This approach is directly extendable to other wave equation models and elliptic partial differential equations with analytic nonlinearities, in two as well as in higher dimensions.
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spellingShingle Periodic localized traveling waves in the two-dimensional suspension bridge equation
van der Aalst, Lindsey
Berg, Jan Bouwe van den
Lessard, Jean-Philippe
Analysis of PDEs
Dynamical Systems
In the dynamics generated by the suspension bridge equation, traveling waves are an essential feature. The existing literature focuses primarily on the idealized one-dimensional case, while traveling structures in two spatial dimensions have only been studied via numerical simulations. We use computer-assisted proof methods based on a Newton-Kantorovich type argument to find and prove periodic localized traveling waves in two dimensions. The main obstacle is the exponential nonlinearity in combination with the resulting large amplitude of the localized waves. Our analysis hinges on establishing computable bounds to control the aliasing error in the computed Fourier coefficients. This leads to existence proofs of different traveling wave solutions, accompanied by small, explicit, rigorous bounds on the deficiency of numerical approximations. This approach is directly extendable to other wave equation models and elliptic partial differential equations with analytic nonlinearities, in two as well as in higher dimensions.
title Periodic localized traveling waves in the two-dimensional suspension bridge equation
topic Analysis of PDEs
Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19759