Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4612420 | Journal of Differential Equations | 2009 | 20 Pages |
Abstract
In a plane media with almost periodic vertical striations, we study a curvature flow and construct two kinds of traveling waves, one having a straight line like profile and the other having a V shaped profile. For each of the first-kind traveling waves, its profile is the graph of a function whose derivative is almost periodic. For each of the second-kind traveling waves, its profile is like a pulsating cone, whose two tails approach asymptotically the profiles of the first-kind traveling waves. Also we consider a homogenization problem and provide an explicit formula for the homogenized traveling speed.
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