Take a look at: Valls, C. Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. (2017) 24: 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00030-017-0450-1 Basically this is for a chemical reaction and it is second order in displacement and first order in time, but is non-linear. So this is more general than say the quantum mechanical traveling wave for an electron etc.