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The goal of this work is to determine classes of traveling solitary wave solutions for Lattice Boltzmann schemes by means of an hyperbolic ansatz. It is shown that spurious solitary waves can occur in finite-difference solutions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Claire David , Pierre Sagaut

In this paper, we present experimental results and reveal that strong perturbations are not necessary for elastic instability to occur in straight-channel, inertialess, visco-elastic flows at high elasticity. We show that a non-normal mode…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-12 Ron Shnapp , Victor Steinberg

We prove variational instability for small-amplitude solutions to the periodic irrotational gravity water wave problem in finite depth. Our results are based on a reformation of the water wave problem as a pseudo-differential Euler-Lagrange…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Florian Kogelbauer

This article is devoted to the proof of the well-posedness of a model describing waves propagating in shallow water in horizontal dimension $d=2$ and in the presence of a fixed partially immersed object. We first show that this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-28 David Lannes , Tatsuo Iguchi

This study analyzes steady periodic hydroelastic waves propagating on the water surface of finite depth beneath nonlinear elastic membranes. Unlike previous work \cite{BaldiT,BaldiT1,Toland,Toland1}, our formulation accommodates rotational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Yong Zhang

The goal of this work is to determine classes of travelling solitary wave solutions for a differential approximation of a finite difference scheme by means of a hyperbolic ansatz. It is shown that spurious solitary waves can occur in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Claire David , Pierre Sagaut

A full linear stability of a straight scroll wave in an excitable medium is presented. The five eigenmode branches which correspond to deformation in the third dimension of the five main modes of two-dimensional (2D) spiral dynamics are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Henry , V. Hakim

We study strong instability (instability by blowup) of standing wave solutions for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an attractive delta potential and $L^2$-supercritical power nonlinearity in one space dimension. We also compare our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Masahito Ohta , Takahiro Yamaguchi

The evolution of surface gravity waves is driven by nonlinear interactions that trigger an energy cascade similarly to the one observed in hydrodynamic turbulence. This process, known as wave turbulence, has been found to display anomalous…

This paper is concerned with the global stability of non-critical/critical traveling waves with oscillations for time-delayed nonlocal dispersion equations. We first theoretically prove that all traveling waves, especially the critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Tianyuan Xu , Shanming Ji , Rui Huang , Ming Mei , Jingxue Yin

We study the modulational instability of small-amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions in a dispersion generalized Ostrovsky equation. Specifically, we investigate the invertibility of the associated linearized operator in the vicinity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Bhavna , Mathew A. Johnson , Ashish Kumar Pandey

Many dynamical interactions can induce eccentricities in astrophysical accretion disks. Disk eccentricities in turn seed a variety of instabilities, even in ideal hydrodynamics. We use 3D nonlinear simulations and 2+1D linear calculations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Janosz W. Dewberry , Henrik N. Latter , Gordon I. Ogilvie , Sebastien Fromang

The thermomagnetic instability of the critical state in superconductors is analysed with account of the dissipation and dispersion. The possibility is demonstrated of the existance of a nonlinear shok wave describing the final stage of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 N. A. Taylanov

This paper considers two-dimensional gravity solitary waves moving through a body of density stratified water lying below vacuum. The fluid domain is assumed to lie above an impenetrable flat ocean bed, while the interface between the water…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Robin Ming Chen , Samuel Walsh , Miles H. Wheeler

Via a fixed point argument, we construct solitary waves for the two-dimensional Zakharov system that travel with any small speed $c \in \mathbb{R}^2$. Moreover, we investigate their asymptotic behavior.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Guillaume Rialland

We study strong instability of standing waves $e^{i\omega t} \phi_{\omega}(x)$ for nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with $L^2$-supercritical nonlinearity and a harmonic potential, where $\phi_{\omega}$ is a ground state of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Masahito Ohta

The classical equations of irrotational water waves have recently been reformulated as a system of two equations, one of which is an explicit non-local equation for the wave height and for the velocity potential evaluated on the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-01 Anthony C. L Ashton , A. S. Fokas

A theoretical and numerical analysis of the linear stability of the boundary layer flow under a solitary wave is presented. In the present work, the nonlinear boundary layer equations are solved. The result is compared to the linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Joris C. G. Verschaeve , Geir K. Pedersen

We develop a weakly nonlinear model to study the spatiotemporal manifestation and the dynamical behavior of surface waves in the presence of an underlying interfacial solitary wave in a two-layer fluid system. We show that interfacial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-29 Shixiao W. Jiang , Gregor Kovačič , Douglas Zhou

We discover an instability mechanism in suspensions of self-propelled particles that does not involve active stress. Instead, it is driven by a subtle interplay of inertia, swimmer motility, and concentration fluctuations, through a crucial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-16 Purnima Jain , Navdeep Rana , Sriram Ramaswamy , Prasad Perlekar