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At fixed leading power of a periodic planar filament, the family $a\sin (mkx+\Omega t)$ has propulsive force of a periodic planar filament increasing with spatial harmonic $m$. The formal quadratic objective is unbounded without a spatial cutoff; large harmonics eventually invalidate the small-slope model. With a finite admissible Fourier series band, force divided by power is a weighted average of the signed ratios $-({\xi }_{\perp }-{\xi }_{\parallel })k_j/({\xi }_{\perp }{\Omega }_j)$. An allowed extremal ratio is attained by a travelling wave mode, or by a superposition with one common phase speed.

Detuning measures the small mismatch from a resonance condition. When the mismatch and nonlinear forcing are both $O(ϵ)$, they enter the same slow time equation. A small shift of the wavenumber can therefore balance a quadratic interaction and permit a locked periodic travelling wave.

For a scalar equation with strictly convex flux and states $u_l>u_r$, the Rankine-Hugoniot condition determines a discontinuity speed strictly between the right and left characteristic speeds. Characteristic curves enter this compressive discontinuity from both sides. Its entropy flux for a scalar conservation law inequalities make it an entropy solution. It is the limit of a phase-normalized decreasing travelling wave in the vanishing viscosity approximation.

For a travelling wave of large positive speed in the cylindrical film equation, the leading core is proportional to $1-\cos x$ over an axial interval of length $2\pi$. Edge coordinates $X=(3c{)}^{1/3}(x-x_e)$ reduce the transition equation to $H^3{H}_{XXX}=H-1$. Its real positive exponent gives a monotone trailing approach and its complex stable exponents give damped capillary waves ahead, with physical wavelength $4\pi a/(3^{5/6}{c}^{1/3})$. Matching the two quadratic edge expansions selects the uniform film thickness; this is a matched asymptotic expansion, valid while the pulse itself remains thin relative to the cylinder.

For a Keller--Segel model with $c_t=-kb$, a positive-speed travelling wave $B(z),C(z)$, $z=x-vt$, satisfies $v{C}^{\prime }=kB$ and $D{B}^{\prime }+vB-\alpha B{C}^{\prime }/C=0$ when the integrated bacterial flux constant is zero. Writing $\mu =\alpha /D>1$ and $\xi =v(z-z_0)/D$, its positive band solution isTo derive it, integrate $B^{\prime }/B=\mu C^{\prime }/C-v/D$ to obtain $B=K{C}^{\mu }{e}^{-vz/D}$, then separate $v{C}^{\prime }=kB$. The positive integration constant is a translation of the wave. Concentration rises monotonically from zero behind to $C_{\infty }$ ahead; $B$ vanishes at both ends and has a unique maximum at $\xi =-\log (\mu -1)$. The condition $\mu >1$ describes this exponential-tail branch; it is not asserted to exclude every limiting or weak travelling wave at other parameter values.

Fix $u_l>u_r$ and the Rankine-Hugoniot condition speed from the preceding part. The new hypothesis is a uniformly convex scalar flux, $F^{\prime \prime }\ge \kappa >0$; it replaces the globally bounded-$F^{\prime }$ hypothesis of part (a). Choose $b=\sigma u_r-F(u_r)$. Thensince a strictly convex function lies below the chord between its two endpoint values. Also $Q(u_l)=Q(u_r)=0$ andThe zeros at the endpoints are simple, so the separated integral diverges logarithmically there. Thus the travelling wave is a decreasing connection defined for all $s$, unique up to translation.

To specify a limit, fix a number $c\in (u_r,u_l)$ independently of $\epsilon$ and normalize $v_{\epsilon }(0)=c$. If $V^{\prime }=Q(V)$ and $V(0)=c$, uniqueness gives $v_{\epsilon }(s)=V(s/\epsilon )$. ConsequentlyAt $x=\sigma t$ the normalized profile equals $c$ for every $\epsilon$. This single-line value is immaterial to the weak solution. Convergence holds pointwise off the line and in $L_{\mathrm{loc}}^1$ by bounded convergence; it cannot be uniform across a nonzero jump. The transition has thickness of order $\epsilon$.

This is the vanishing viscosity approximation to a compressive entropy shock. The Rankine-Hugoniot condition makes the step a weak solution of the inviscid scalar conservation law, while $F^{\prime }(u_r)<\sigma <F^{\prime }(u_l)$ means characteristic curves enter the shock from both sides. For every smooth convex function $\eta$ used as an entropy, with entropy flux for a scalar conservation law $q^{\prime }={\eta }^{\prime }{F}^{\prime }$, the viscous equation givesAgainst compactly supported tests the right side tends to zero, since $u_{\epsilon }$ stays in $[u_r,u_l]$. Passing to the $L_{\mathrm{loc}}^1$ limit yields the entropy inequality, explaining the direction selected by positive viscosity.

A translation must be fixed to obtain this particular limit. An $\epsilon$-dependent translate $V((s-a_{\epsilon })/\epsilon )$ can converge to a shock at a different location, to a constant if its center escapes, or fail to converge if the centers oscillate. Thus existence of profiles alone does not specify a single vanishing-viscosity limit without a phase normalization.