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A model kinetic equation is solved exactly for a special stationary state describing nonlinear Couette flow in a low density system of inelastic spheres. The hydrodynamic fields, heat and momentum fluxes, and the phase space distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-15 M. Tij , E. E. Tahiri , J. M. Montanero , V. Garzó , A. Santos , J. W. Dufty

Is it possible to solve Boltzmann-type kinetic equations using only a small number of particles velocities? We introduce a novel techniques of solving kinetic equations with (arbitrarily) large number of particle velocities using only a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-08-29 I. V. Karlin , S. Ansumali

We consider weakly coupled systems of semilinear viscoelastic wave equations with different power source nonlinearities in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq1$ as follows: \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{aligned} &u_{tt}-\Delta u+g\ast\Delta…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Yan Liu , Wenhui Chen

The wave kinetic equation has become an important tool in different fields of physics. In particular, for surface gravity waves, it is the backbone of wave forecasting models. Its derivation is based on the Hamiltonian dynamics of surface…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-10 Davide Maestrini , Daniele Noto , Giovanni Dematteis , Miguel Onorato

We construct solutions to nonlinear wave equations that are singular along a prescribed noncharacteristic hypersurface which is the graph of a function satisfying not the Eikonal but another partial differential equation of the first order.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Hideshi Yamane

In this article the linear Boltzmann equation is derived for a particle interacting with a Gaussian random field, in the weak coupling limit, with renewal in time of the random field. The initial data can be chosen arbitrarily. The proof is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Sébastien Breteaux

The linearized Boltzmann equation is considered to describe small spatial perturbations of the homogeneous cooling state. The corresponding macroscopic balance equations for the density, temperature, and flow velocity are derived from it as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Javier Brey , James W. Dufty , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

The nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the weakly nonlinear regime with random Gaussian fields as initial data is considered. The problem is set on the torus in any dimension greater than two. A conjecture in statistical physics is that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Charles Collot , Pierre Germain

Many of the technical complications associated with the general theory of relativity ultimately stem from the nonlinearity of Einstein's equation. It is shown here that an appropriate choice of dynamical variables may be used to eliminate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-07 Abraham I. Harte

In the paper a new nonlinear equation describing shallow water waves with the topography of the bottom directly taken into account is derived. This equation is valid in the weakly nonlinear, dispersive and long wavelength limit. Some…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-05-22 Anna Karczewska , Piotr Rozmej , Łukasz Rutkowski

A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with repulsive (defocusing) nonlinearity is considered. As an example, a system with a spatially varying coefficient of the nonlinear term is studied. The nonlinearity is chosen to be repelling except on a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-11-28 R. K. Jackson , R. Marangell , H. Susanto

The quantum kinetic equation used in the study of weak turbulence is reconsidered in the context of a theory with a generic quartic interaction. The expectation value of the time derivative of the mode number operators is computed in a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark Rakowski , Siddhartha Sen

The derivation of the Nordheim-Boltzmann transport equation for weakly interacting quantum fluids is a longstanding problem in mathematical physics. Inspired by the method developed to handle classical dilute gases, a conventional approach…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-25 Jani Lukkarinen , Herbert Spohn

This paper investigates the weakly nonlinear isotropic bi-directional Benney--Luke (BL) equation, which is used to describe oceanic surface and internal waves in shallow water, with a particular focus on soliton dynamics. Using the Whitham…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-21 Lei Hu , Xudan Luo , Zhan Wang

In a series of previous works (arXiv:2104.11204, arXiv:2110.04565, arXiv:2301.07063), we gave a rigorous derivation of the homogeneous wave kinetic equation (WKE) up to small multiples of the kinetic timescale, which corresponds to short…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Yu Deng , Zaher Hani

In wave turbulence, it has been believed that statistical properties are well described by the weak turbulence theory, in which nonlinear interactions among wavenumbers are assumed to be small. In the weak turbulence theory, separation of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-07 Naoto Yokoyama

We study traveling wave solutions of the nonlinear variational wave equation. In particular, we show how to obtain global, bounded, weak traveling wave solutions from local, classical ones. The resulting waves consist of monotone and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Katrin Grunert , Audun Reigstad

A weak turbulence theory is derived for magnetohydrodynamics under rapid rotation and in the presence of a large-scale magnetic field. The angular velocity $\Omega_0$ is assumed to be uniform and parallel to the constant Alfv\'en speed…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Sebastien Galtier

In the paper the possible approaches to the rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann kinetic equation with hard sphere collisions from underlying dynamics are considered. In particular, a formalism for the description of the evolution of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 V. I. Gerasimenko

Variety of statistically steady energy spectra in elastic wave turbulence have been reported in numerical simulations, experiments, and theoretical studies. Focusing on the energy levels of the system, we have performed direct numerical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-07 Naoto Yokoyama , Masanori Takaoka