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A non-linear model associated with a Landau-Ginzburg-like behavior in mean field approximation forecasts phase transition waves and solitary kinks near the critical point. The behavior of isothermal waves is different of the one of…
We establish a nonlinear instability of the Euler-Poisson system for polytropic gases whose adiabatic exponents take value in $6/5<\gamma<4/3$ around the Lane-Emden equilibrium star configurations.
The full nonlinear dissipative quasigeostrophic model is shown to have a unique temporally almost periodic solution when the wind forcing is temporally almost periodic under suitable constraints on the spatial square-integral of the wind…
We study the instability of standing waves for nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations. Under a general assumption on nonlinearity, we prove that linear instability implies orbital instability in any dimension. For that purpose, we establish a…
The main goal of this paper is to prove that if the energy-momentum (or energy-Casimir) method predicts formal instability of a relative equilibrium in a Hamiltonian system with symmetry, then with the addition of dissipation, the relative…
In this paper we describe the long time behavior of solutions to quasi-linear parabolic equations with a small parameter at the second order term and the long time behavior of corresponding diffusion processes.
In this paper, we study the structurally nonlinear stability of supersonic contact discontinuities in three-dimensional compressible isentropic steady flows. Based on the weakly linear stability result and the $L^2$-estimates obtained by…
This work deals with a scalar nonlinear neutral delay differential equation issued from the study of wave propagation. A critical value of the coefficients is considered, where only few results are known. The difficulty follows from the…
A possibility of a nonlinear resonant instability of uniform oscillations in dynamical lattices with harmonic intersite coupling and onsite nonlinearity is predicted. Numerical simulations of a lattice with a double-well onsite anharmonic…
We prove pointwise-in-time dispersive decay for solutions to the energy-critical nonlinear wave equation in spatial dimension $d = 3$.
This work gathers new results concerning the semi-geostrophic equations: existence and stability of measure valued solutions, existence and uniqueness of solutions under certain continuity conditions for the density, convergence to the…
A nonlinear parabolic differential equation is presented which has at least one equilibrium. This equilibrium is shown to have a negative definite linearization, but a spectrum which includes zero. An elementary construction shows that the…
We investigate a semilinear wave equation with energy-critical nonlinearity and a nonlinear damping mechanism driven by the total energy of the system. The model combines the quintic defocusing term with a time-dependent dissipation of the…
Tidally distorted rotating stars and gaseous planets are subject to a well-known linear fluid instability -- the elliptical instability. It has been proposed that this instability might drive enough energy dissipation to solve the…
For the non-rotating gaseous stars modeled by the compressible Euler-Poisson system with general pressure law, Lin and Zeng [18] proved a turning point principle, which gives the sharp linear stability/instability criteria for the…
We describe a mechanism that results in the nonlinear instability of stationary states even in the case where the stationary states are linearly stable. This instability is due to the nonlinearity-induced coupling of the linearization's…
We prove the global regularity of smooth solutions for a dissipative surface quasi-geostrophic equation with both velocity and dissipation logarithmically supercritical compared to the critical equation. By this, we mean that a symbol…
We give an elementary proof of the global well-posedness for the critical 2D dissipative quasi-geostrophic equation. The argument is based on a non-local maximum principle involving appropriate moduli of continuity.
We study the stability of the system of the Euler equation in the neighborhood of a stationary profile associated with the quasi isobaric model in a gravity field. This stationary profile is not bounded below, hence the operator is not…
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,…