Wednesday, July 23

MS54
Traveling Waves in Engineering Applications

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Fermi Building: Room 1

This minisymposium is devoted to recent advances in the analysis of engineering applications from the point of view of traveling waves. In the featured presentations the existence and properties of waves are investigated based on experimental data, numerical calculations, and analytic methods such as geometric singular perturbation theory. The importance of the knowledge about traveling waves for finding specific solutions of the engineering models is also addressed.

Organizer: Anna Ghazaryan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3:30-3:55 Nanostructured Energy Conversion: Pore Formation in Polymer Electrolytes

Keith Promislow, Michigan State University

4:00-4:25 Exact Travelling Wave Solutions for a Generalized Davey-Stewartson System

Ceni Babaoglu, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

4:30-4:55 Existence and Stability of a Planar Traveling Wave in a Combustion Model

Kota Ikeda, Tohoku University, Japan; Masayasu Mimura, Meijo University, Japan

5:00-5:25 Traveling Wave for a Thin Liquid Film with Surfactant on an Inclined Plane

Vahagn E. Manukian and Stephen Schecter, North Carolina State University