A wave in which the positions of maximum and minimum amplitude travel through the medium.
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- In effect, they trade the translational kinetic energy of a traveling wave for more displacement energy in a standing wave.
- With this setup it is possible to initiate traveling waves and to control the wave velocity.
- In the middle phase, cooperators form traveling waves that are eroded on one side by new defectors and built up on the other by converted loners.
- In the actual system, the aft half of the body undulates with a traveling wave of increasing amplitude envelope as described in Anderson and Kerrebrock.
- The significance of local resonance in the cochlea has been well recognized, and local resonance can be considered as a limit where the traveling wave's group velocity substantially decreases while within a region of very light damping.