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Shock wave theory was first studied for gas dynamics, for which shocks appear as compression waves. A shock wave is characterized as a sharp transition, even discontinuity in the flow. In fact, shocks appear in many different physical…
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We investigate the blow-up dynamics of smooth solutions to the one-dimensional wave equation with a quadratic spatial derivative nonlinearity, motivated by its applications in Effective Field Theory (EFT) in cosmology. Despite its…
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The blow-up of solutions for the Cauchy problem of fractional Ginzburg-Landau equation with non-positive nonlinearity is shown by an ODE argument. Moreover, in one dimensional case, the optimal lifespan estimate for size of initial data is…
We demonstrate existence of solitary waves of synchrony in one-dimensional arrays of identical oscillators with Laplacian coupling. Coarse-grained description of the array leads to nonlinear equations for the complex order parameter, in the…
We consider the $L^2$-supercritical nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a repulsive Dirac delta potential in one dimensional space. In a previous work, we clarified the global dynamics of even solutions with the same action as the…
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We show that 1-D rarefaction wave solutions are unique in the class of bounded entropy solutions to the multidimensional compressible Euler system. Such a result may be viewed as a counterpart of the recent examples of non-uniqueness of the…
n a number of papers it was shown that there are one-dimensional systems such that they contain solutions with, so called, overcompressive singular shock waves besides the usual elementary waves (shock and rarefaction ones as well as…
In the present work we analize the behavior of 5-dimensional gravitational waves propagating on a Kaluza-Klein background and we face separately the two cases in which respectively the waves are generated before and after the process of…
The study of nonlinear waves that collapse in finite time is a theme of universal interest, e.g. within optical, atomic, plasma physics, and nonlinear dynamics. Here we revisit the quintessential example of the nonlinear Schrodinger…
In this paper, for compressible Euler equations in multiple space dimensions, we prove the break-down of classical solutions with a large class of initial data by tracking the propagation of radially symmetric expanding wave including…
In this paper we prove the propagation of singularities for the wave equation on differential forms with natural (i.e. relative or absolute) boundary conditions on Lorentzian manifolds with corners, which in particular includes a…
In this paper we report on numerical studies of formation of singularities for the semilinear wave equations with a focusing power nonlinearity $u_{tt} - \Delta u = u^{p}$ in three space dimensions. We show that for generic large initial…
We verify the critical case $p=p_0(n)$ of Strauss' conjecture (1981) concerning the blow-up of solutions to semilinear wave equations with variable coefficients in $\mathbf{R}^n$, where $n\geq 2$. The perturbations of Laplace operator are…
We consider the Cauchy problem in $\mathbb{R}^n,$ $n\geq 1,$ for a semilinear damped wave equation with nonlinear memory. Global existence and asymptotic behavior as $t\rightarrow\infty$ of small data solutions have been established in the…
Self-similar solutions to the problem of a strong imploding relativistic shock wave are calculated. These solutions represent the relativistic generalisation of the Newtonian Gouderley-Landau-Stanyukovich problem of a strong imploding…