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The Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system models electrodiffusion of ions in a fluid. We prove global existence of solutions in bounded domains in three dimensions with either blocking (no-flux) or uniform selective (special Dirichlet)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Peter Constantin , Mihaela Ignatova , Fizay-Noah Lee

We examine statistical properties of integrable turbulence in the defocusing and focusing regimes of one-dimensional small-dispersion nonlinear Schrodinger equation (1D-NLSE). Specifically, we study the 1D-NLSE evolution of partially…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2019-09-25 Giacomo Roberti , Gennady El , Stephane Randoux , Pierre Suret

In this work, we study numerically the temporal evolution of an initially random large-scale velocity field under governed by the hyperviscous incompressible Navier-Stoke equations. Three stages are clearly observed during the evolution.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-03 Giorgio Krstulovic , Sergey Nazarenko

Modulational instability (MI) is a fundamental phenomenon in the study of nonlinear dynamics, spanning diverse areas such as shallow water waves, optics, and ultracold atomic gases. In particular, the nonlinear stage of MI has recently been…

Phase effect on the modal interaction of flow instabilities is investigated for laminar-to-turbulent transition in a flat-plate boundary layer flow. Primary and secondary instabilities are numerically studied with 2D Tollmien-Schlichting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-14 Minwoo Kim , Seungtae Kim , Jiseop Lim , Ray-Sing Lin , Solkeun Jee , Donghun Park

Electro-hydrodynamic phenomena in liquid crystals constitute an old but still very active research area. The reason is that these phenomena play the key role in various applications of liquid crystals and due to the general interest of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-14 E. S. Pikina , A. R. Muratov , E. I. Kats , V. V. Lebedev

Long-duration one-dimensional PIC simulations are presented of Buneman-unstable, initially Maxwellian, electron and ion distributions shifted with respect to one another, providing detailed phase-space videos of the time-dependence. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 I H Hutchinson

In the framework of the focusing Nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation we study numerically the nonlinear stage of the modulation instability (MI) of the condensate. As expected, the development of the MI leads to formation of "integrable…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-09-15 D. S. Agafontsev , V. E. Zakharov

A strained epitaxial film deposited on a deformable substrate undergoes a morphological instability relaxing the elastic energy by surface diffusion. The nonlinear and nonlocal dynamical equations of such films with wetting interactions are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-16 Jean-Noel Aqua , Thomas Frisch , Alberto Verga

The nonlinear evolution of unstable C-type shocks in weakly ionized plasmas is studied by means of time-dependent magnetohydrodynamical simulations. This study is limited to shocks in magnetically dominated plasmas (in which the Alfven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James M. Stone

Stability of electro-hydrodynamic processes between ion-exchange membranes is investigated. Solutions of the equilibrium problem are commonly described in the one-dimensional (1D) steady-state approximation. In the present work, a novel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-13 E. Demekhin , S. Polyanskikh , Yury Shtemler

We study the nonlinear propagation of electrostatic wave packets in a collisional plasma composed of strongly coupled ions and relativistically degenerate electrons. The equilibrium of ions is maintained by an effective temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 A. P. Misra , P. K. Shukla

A slender thread of elastic hydrogel is susceptible to a surface instability that is reminiscent of the classical Rayleigh-Plateau instability of liquid jets. The final, highly nonlinear states that are observed in experiments arise from a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-16 Anupam Pandey , Minkush Kansal , Miguel A. Herrada , Jens Eggers , Jacco H. Snoeijer

We develop a characterization method of electroconvection structures in a planar nematic liquid crystal layer by a study of the electric current transport. Because the applied potential difference has a sinusoidal time dependence, we define…

patt-sol · Physics 2007-05-23 J. T. Gleeson , N. Gheorghiu , E. Plaut

A nonlinear dynamics of the thermal and electromagnetic instability of critical state in type II superconductors has been analysed taking into account effects of dissipation and dispersion. An existance of a nonlinear running waves…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Nizam A. Taylanov

Electrospun polymer jets are imaged for the first time at an ultra-high rate of 10,000 frames per second, investigating the process dynamics, and the instability propagation velocity and displacement in space. The polymer concentration,…

We consider an electrodiffusion model that describes the intricate interplay of multiple ionic species with a two-dimensional, incompressible, viscous fluid subjected to stochastic additive noise. This system involves nonlocal nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Elie Abdo , Ruimeng Hu , Quyuan Lin

The streaming instability is a fundamental process that can drive dust-gas dynamics and ultimately planetesimal formation in protoplanetary discs. As a linear instability, it has been shown that its growth with a distribution of dust sizes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Chao-Chin Yang , Zhaohuan Zhu

We consider the modulational instability of nonlinearly interacting two-dimensional waves in deep water, which are described by a pair of two-dimensional coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations. We derive a nonlinear dispersion relation.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. K. Shukla , I. Kourakis , B. Eliasson , M. Marklund , L. Stenflo

Extensive studies have investigated the transition mechanism of boundary layers initiated by a single primary instability. In a real-world scenario, however, multiple primary instabilities of different physical nature would coexist and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-18 Xiao-Bai Li , Yifeng Chen , Chihyung Wen , Peixu Guo