Waves in nonsmooth systems


    Solitary waves and fronts in piecewise-linear discontinuous systems (McKean nonlinearity)


  • J.E. Morales, G. James and A. Tonnelier, Traveling waves in a spring-block chain sliding down a slope, Phys. Rev. E 96, 012227 (2017).

    Original publication available at aps.org. Preprint available on HAL: pdf file.


  • J.E. Morales, G. James and A. Tonnelier, Solitary waves in the excitable Burridge-Knopoff model, Wave Motion 76 (2018), 103-121.

    Original publication available at www.sciencedirect.com. Preprint available on: HAL.



    Time-periodic oscillations in a chain of impact oscillators


  • G. James, V. Acary and F. Pérignon, Periodic motions of coupled impact oscillators, to appear in Advanced Topics in Nonsmooth Dynamics: Transactions of the European Network for Nonsmooth Dynamics, R. Leine, V. Acary and O. Brüls, Eds., Springer (2018).

    Preprint available on: HAL.