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We present a dynamical-systems perspective on wave breaking for ideal incompressible free-surface flows. By tracking the most energetic hotspot on the wave surface, we find that near breaking the surface slope m evolves on a fast timescale…

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We theoretically describe the quasi one-dimensional transverse spreading of a light pulse propagating in a nonlinear optical material in the presence of a uniform background light intensity. For short propagation distances the pulse can be…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-30 M. Isoard , A. M. Kamchatnov , N. Pavloff

Starting from the von Neumann-Maxwell equations for the Wigner quasi-probability distribution and for the self-consistent electric field, the quantum analog of the classical single-wave model has been derived. The linear stability of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-10-24 Stephan I. Tzenov , Kiril B. Marinov

We provide accurate expressions for the $s$-wave scattering length for a Gaussian potential well in one, two and three spatial dimensions. The Gaussian potential is widely used as a pseudopotential in the theoretical description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Peter Jeszenszki , Alexander Yu. Cherny , Joachim Brand

We consider evolution of wave pulses with formation of dispersive shock waves in framework of fully nonlinear shallow-water equations. Situations of initial elevations or initial dips on the water surface are treated and motion of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-08 S. K. Ivanov , A. M. Kamchatnov

Here to represent the propagation of waves I attempted to describe them separately in space and time domains. The time and space wave equations are obtained and investigated, and formulas for the wave propagation are expressed. I also tried…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Krouglov

In this reviewing paper, we are interested in the proof of estimating the lifespan of classical solutions of semilinear wave equations with the critical exponent from above especially in low space dimensions. There are a few ways to show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Hiroyuki Takamura

For any kind of wave phenomenon one can find ways to derive the respective dispersion relation from experimental observations and measurements. This dispersion relation determines the structure of the wave equation and thus characterizes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-21 Gerd Leuchs , Mojdeh S. Najafabadi

Coupled wave equations are popular tool for investigating longitudinal dynamical effects in semiconductor lasers, for example, sensitivity to delayed optical feedback. We study a model that consists of a hyperbolic linear system of partial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-08-12 Jan Sieber

The limitation of the Quasilinear Theory (QLT) to describe the diffusion of electrons and ions in velocity space when interacting with a spectrum of large amplitude electrostatic Langmuir, Upper and Lower hybrid waves, is analyzed. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Georgios Zacharegkas , Heinz Isliker , Loukas Vlahos

The theory of acoustic wave scattering by many small bodies is developed for bodies with impedance boundary condition. It is shown that if one embeds many small particles in a bounded domain, filled with a known material, then one can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Ramm

Two-dimensional periodic surface waves propagating under the combined influence of gravity and surface tension on water of finite depth are considered. Within the framework of small-amplitude waves, we find the exact solutions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Delia Ionescu-Kruse

The propagation of water waves of finite depth and flat bottom is studied in the case when the depth is not small in comparison to the wavelength. This propagation regime is complementary to the long-wave regime described by the famous KdV…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-05-31 Rossen I. Ivanov

A quantum-mechanical wave function is complex, but all observations are real, expressible through expectation values and transition matrix elements that involve the wave functions. It can be useful to separate at the outset the amplitude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 A. R. P. Rau

A novel approach is developed to find the three-body breakup amplitudes and cross sections within the modified Faddeev equation framework. The method is based on the lattice-like discretization of the three-body continuum with a three-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 O. A. Rubtsova , V. N. Pomerantsev , V. I. Kukulin , Amand Faessler

We consider the conditions under which solitary waves can exist in elongated clouds of Bose-Einstein condensed atoms. General expressions are derived for the velocity, characteristic size, and spatial profile of solitary waves, and the low-…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. D. Jackson , G. M. Kavoulakis , C. J. Pethick

In this paper we study the linear wave equation on an $n$-dimensional spatial domain. We show that there is a boundary triplet associated to the undamped wave equation. This enables us to characterise all boundary conditions for which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-09 Mikael Kurula , Hans Zwart

We derive solitary-wave solutions within the mean-field approximation in quasi-one-dimensional binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates under periodic boundary conditions, for the case of an effective repulsive interatomic interaction.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Smyrnakis , M. Magiropoulos , G. M. Kavoulakis , A. D. Jackson

A closed-form expression for the amplitudes of source waves in 2D discrete lattice with local and linear (waveguides) defects is derived. The numerical implementation of this analytic expression is demonstrated by several examples.

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Anton A. Kutsenko