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The stability of a rotating fluid disk to the formation of spiral arms is studied in the tightwinding approximation in the linear regime. The dispersion relation for spirals that was derived by Bertin et al. is shown to contain a new,…
We provide several characterizations of convergence to unstable equilibria in nonlinear systems. Our current contribution is three-fold. First we present simple algebraic conditions for establishing local convergence of non-trivial…
We prove nonlinear modulational instability for both periodic and localized perturbations of periodic traveling waves for several dispersive PDEs, including the KDV type equations (e.g. the Whitham equation, the generalized KDV equation,…
We explore a series expansion method to calculate the modes of oscillations for a variety of uniformly rotating finite disks, either with or without a dark halo. Since all models have the same potential, this survey focuses on the role of…
We perform a linear stability analysis of the axisymmetric, relativistic, self-similar isothermal disk against non-axisymmetric perturbations. Two sets of neutral modes are discovered. The first set corresponds to marginally unstable…
A fully discrete Galerkin scheme for a thermodynamically consistent transient Max-well-Stefan system for the mass particle densities, coupled to the Poisson equation for the electric potential, is investigated. The system models the…
This paper develops a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for the two-dimensional Camassa--Holm--Kadomtsev--Petviashvili equation. The method employs Cartesian meshes with tensor-product polynomial spaces, enabling separate treatment…
In two and three dimension we analyze discontinuous Galerkin methods for the acoustic problem. The acoustic fluid that we consider on this paper is inviscid, leading to a linear eigenvalue problem. The acoustic problem is written, in first…
The paper presents a solution to the Boltzmann kinetic equation based on the construction of its discrete conservative model. Discrete analogue of the collision integral is presented as a contraction of a tensor, which is independent from…
This paper presents a multiscale Petrov-Galerkin finite element method for time-harmonic acoustic scattering problems with heterogeneous coefficients in the high-frequency regime. We show that the method is pollution- free also in the case…
The von Neumann equation with delta self-interaction kernel serves as a statistical model for nonlinear waves, and it exhibits a bifurcation between stable and unstable regimes. In oceanography it is known as the Alber equation, and its…
A class of periodic solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with non- Hermitian potentials are considered. The system may be implemented in planar nonlinear optical waveguides carrying an appropriate distribution of local gain and…
We construct exact solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for solitary vortices, and approximate ones for fundamental solitons, in 2D models of Bose-Einstein condensates with a spatially modulated nonlinearity of either sign and a…
In this paper, we present a general methodology for investigating the linear stability of localized solutions in PDEs and nonlocal equations on $\mathbb{R}^m$. More specifically, we control the spectrum of the Jacobian…
The stability of thin homogeneous gaseous disk with step discontinuity of velocity and density profile has been investigated analytically in the limitary case of large compressibility and numerically at spatially separated velocity and…
We describe and test a family of new numerical methods to solve the Schrodinger equation in self-gravitating systems, e.g. Bose-Einstein condensates or 'fuzzy'/ultra-light scalar field dark matter. The methods are finite-volume Godunov…
In this paper, we investigate a spectral Petrov-Galerkin method for fractional initial value problems. Singularities of the solution at the origin inherited from the weakly singular kernel of the fractional derivative are considered, and…
An unstable one-dimensional Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) mode has been studied through high-precision numerical simulations. The initial turbulent, periodic equilibrium state is obtained by solving a Vlasov-Poisson system for initially…
This paper develops a computational method for studying stable/unstable manifolds attached to periodic orbits of differential equations. The method uses high order Chebyshev-Taylor series approximations in conjunction with the…
This paper is devoted to the study of the nonlinear stability of the rarefaction waves of the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system with slab symmetry in the case where the electron background density satisfies an analogue of the Boltzmann…