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We study the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (DNLS) in an annular geometry with on-site defects. The dynamics of a traveling plane-wave maps onto an effective ''non-rigid pendulum'' Hamiltonian. The different regimes include the…
During the past decades the study of strongly interacting fluids experienced a tremendous progress. In the relativistic heavy ion accelerators, specially the RHIC and LHC colliders, it became possible to study not only fluids made of…
We analyse the dynamical properties of three-dimensional solitary waves in cylindrically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates. Families of solitary waves bifurcate from the planar dark soliton and include the solitonic vortex, the vortex ring…
The dark soliton solution of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in one dimension has two parameters that do not change the energy of the solution: the global phase of the condensate wave function and the position of the soliton. These…
The nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) models the slowly varying envelope dynamics of a weakly nonlinear quasi-monochromatic wave packet in dispersive media. In the context of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), it is often referred to as…
We prove existence of small-amplitude modulated solitary waves for the full-dispersion Kadomtsev--Petviashvilii (FDKP) equation with weak surface tension. The resulting waves are small-order perturbations of scaled, translated and…
An equation to describe nearly one-dimensional traveling-waves patterns is put forward. This is a dispersive generalization of the classical Newell-Whitehead-Segel (NWS) equation. Transverse stability of plane waves is considered within the…
In this paper we show numerically that for nonlinear Schrodinger type systems the presence of nonlocal perturbations can lead to a beyond-all-orders instability of stable solutions of the local equation. For the specific case of the…
We study the existence and stability of localized states in the two-dimensional (2D) nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS)/Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a symmetric four-well potential. Using a fourmode approximation, we are able to trace the…
We study analytically the orbital stability of the standing waves with a peak-Gausson profile for a nonlinear logarithmic Schr\"odinger equation with $\delta$-interaction (attractive and repulsive). A major difficulty is to compute the…
We study a deformation of the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation, the defocusing Camassa- Holm NLS, hereafter referred to as CH-NLS equation. We use asymptotic multiscale expansion methods to reduce this model to a…
We study the stability/instability of the subsonic travelling waves of the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation in dimension one. Our aim is to propose several methods for showing instability (use of the Grillakis-Shatah-Strauss theory, proof…
Previous experiments have revealed that shock waves in thermally relaxing gases, such as ionizing, dissociating and vibrationally excited gases, can become unstable. To date, the mechanism controlling this instability has not been resolved.…
We develop a stability theory for two-dimensional periodic traveling waves of general parabolic systems, possibly including conservation laws. In particular, we identify a diffusive spectral stability assumption and prove that it implies…
Gray solitons are a one-parameter family of solutions to the one-dimensional non-linear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) with positive cubic nonlinearity, as found in repulsively interacting dilute Bose-Einstein condensates or electromagnetic…
Periodic waves are investigated in a system composed of a Kuramoto-Sivashinsky - Korteweg-de Vries (KS-KdV) equation, which is linearly coupled to an extra linear dissipative equation. The model describes, e.g., a two-layer liquid film…
In this paper, we investigate the instability of one-dimensionally stable periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation to long wavelength transverse perturbations in the generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov…
Dynamics of solitons is considered in the framework of an extended nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE), which is derived from a Zakharov-type model for wind-driven high-frequency (HF) surface waves in the ocean, coupled to damped…
In this paper, we investigate the spectral instability of periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation to long wavelength transverse perturbations in the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation. By…
We derive a closed expression for the spatial shift experienced by a black soliton colliding with a shallow dark soliton in the context of deformed non-linear Schr\"{o}dinger models. A perturbative scheme is developed based on the expansion…