We prove the existence of multidimensional traveling-wave solutions to the scalar equation for the transport of solutes (contaminants) with nonlinear adsorption and spatially periodic convection-diffusion-adsorption coefficients under the assumption that the nonlinear adsorption function satisfies the Lax and Oleinik entropy conditions. In the nondegenerate case, we also prove the uniqueness of the traveling waves. These traveling waves are analogues of viscous shock profiles. They propagate with effective speeds that depend on the periodic porous media only up to their mean states, and are given by an averaged Rankine-Hugoniot relation. This is a direct consequence of the fact that the transport equation is in conservation form. We use the sliding domain method, the continuation method, spectral theory, maximum principles, and a priori estimates. In the degenerate case, the traveling waves are weak

The minimal speeds (c) of the KolmogorovPetrovskyPiskunov (KPP) fronts at small diffusion ( 1) in a class of time-periodic cellular flows with chaotic streamlines is investigated in this paper. The variational principle of c reduces the computation to that of a principle eigenvalue problem on a periodic domain of a linear advectiondiffusion operator with spacetime periodic coefficients and small diffusion. To solve the advection dominated time-dependent eigenvalue problem efficiently over large time, a combination of spectral methods and finite element, as well as the associated fast solvers, are utilized to accelerate computation. In contrast to the scaling c= O ( 1/4) in steady cellular flows, a new relation c= O (1) as 1 is revealed in the time-periodic cellular flows due to the presence of chaotic streamlines. Residual propagation speed emerges from the Lagrangian chaos which is quantified as a sub

In this paper we study the problem of recovering the reflecting surface in a reflector system which consists of a point light source, a reflecting surface, and an object to be illuminated. This problem involves a fully nonlinear partial differential equation of MongeAmp`ere type, subject to a nonlinear second boundary condition. A weak solution can be obtained by approximation by piecewise ellipsoidal surfaces. The regularity is a very complicated issue but we found precise conditions for it.

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