A lower bound for the amplitude of traveling waves of suspension bridges

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2012.04.037MaRDI QIDQ435106zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paschalis Karageorgis, John Stalker

Publication date 16 July 2012

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4058

zbMATH Keywords

homoclinic solutionssuspension Bridge modelstraveling waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems on infinite intervals for ordinary differential equations (34B40) Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences (58E50)

Abstract: We obtain a lower bound for the amplitude of nonzero homoclinic traveling wave solutions of the McKenna--Walter suspension bridge model. As a consequence of our lower bound, all nonzero homoclinic traveling waves become unbounded as their speed of propagation goes to zero (in accordance with numerical observations).

Review text

The authors study the McKenna-Walter suspension bridge model NEWLINE\[NEWLINEu_{tt}+u_{xxxx}+f(u)=0. \tag{1}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE Under suitable conditions on the term \(f\), they obtain a lower bound for the amplitude of nonzero homoclinic traveling wave solutions of \((1)\). As a consequence of this lower bound, they prove that all nonzero homoclinic traveling waves become unbounded as their speed of propagation goes to zero.

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