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We construct dark solitons in the recently introduced model of the nonlinear dual-core coupler with the mutually balanced gain and loss applied to the two cores, which is a realization of parity-time symmetry in nonlinear optics. The main…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-18 Yuliy V. Bludov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Boris A. Malomed

The nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation is considered on a periodic metric graph subject to the Kirchhoff boundary conditions. Bifurcations of standing localized waves for frequencies lying below the bottom of the linear spectrum of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Guido Schneider

We consider quasilinear generalizations of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and dispersive perturbations of the Euler equations for compressible fluids, either in Lagrangian or in Eulerian coordinates. In particular, our framework includes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Thomas Courant

Dynamics of solitons is considered in the framework of the extended nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE), which is derived from a system of Zakharov's type for the interaction between high- and low-frequency (HF and LF) waves, in which the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-01-14 E. M. Gromov , B. A. Malomed

Of concern are traveling wave solutions for the fractional Kadomtsev--Petviashvili (fKP) equation. The existence of periodically modulated solitary wave solutions is proved by dimension breaking bifurcation. Moreover, the line solitary wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Handan Borluk , Gabriele Bruell , Dag Nilsson

We study the nonlinear interactions of waves with a doubled-peaked power spectrum in shallow water. The starting point is the prototypical equation for nonlinear uni-directional waves in shallow water, i.e. the Korteweg de Vries equation.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Onorato , D. Ambrosi , A. R. Osborne , M. Serio

Expanding upon our prior findings on the proximity of dynamics between integrable and non-integrable systems within the framework of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations, we examine this phenomenon for the focusing Discrete Gross-Pitaevskii…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-20 G. Fotopoulos , N. I. Karachalios , V. Koukouloyannis

We use the Gurevich-Pitaevskii approach based on the Whitham averaging method for studying the formation of dispersive shock waves in an intense light pulse propagating through a saturable nonlinear medium. Although the Whitham modulation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-23 Sergey K. Ivanov , Jules-Elemir Suchorski , Anatoly M. Kamchatnov , Mathieu Isoard , Nicolas Pavloff

We present a phenomenological approach to dispersion in nonlinear elasticity. A simple, thermomechanically sound, constitutive model is proposed to describe the (non-dissipative) properties of a hyperelastic dispersive solid, without…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-03-12 Michel Destrade , Giuseppe Saccomandi

The problem of interest in this article are waves on a layer of finite depth governed by the Euler equations in the presence of gravity, surface tension, and vertical electric fields. Perturbation theory is used to identify canonical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-13 Matthew Hunt , Emilian Parau , Jean-Marc Vanden-broeck , Demetrios Papageorgiou

The propagation of ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) in a collisionless unmagnetized self-gravitating degenerate quantum plasma system (SG-DQPS) has been studied theoretically for the first time. A nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation is derived by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 S. Khondaker , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , A. A. Mamun

In 1995, C. I. Christov and M. G. Velarde introduced the concept of a dissipative soliton in a long-wave thin-film equation [Physica D 86, 323--347]. In the 25 years since, the subject has blossomed to include many related phenomena. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-09-29 Ivan C. Christov , Zongxin Yu

The KdV equation models the propagation of long waves in dispersive media, while the NLS equation models the dynamics of narrow-bandwidth wave packets consisting of short dispersive waves. A system that couples the two equations to model…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-10-12 Bernard Deconinck , Nghiem V. Nguyen , Benjamin L. Segal

The modulational stability of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (NLS) equation is examined in the cases with linear and quadratic external potential. This study is motivated by recent experimental studies in the context of matter waves in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Rapti , P. G. Kevrekidis , V. V. Konotop

A complete classification of compacton solutions is carried out for a generalization of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation involving nonlinear dispersion in two and higher spatial dimensions. In particular, precise conditions are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Stephen C. Anco , Maria Gandarias

We rigorously analyze the bifurcation of stationary so called nonlinear Bloch waves (NLBs) from the spectrum in the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation with a periodic potential, in arbitrary space dimensions. These are solutions which can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Tomáš Dohnal , Hannes Uecker

In linear science, the wave motion equation with general D'Alembert wave solutions is one of the fundamental models. The D'Alembert wave is an arbitrary travelling wave moving along one direction under a fixed model (material) dependent…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-05-23 Man Jia , S. Y. Lou

In graphene, where the electron-electron scattering is dominant, electrons collectively act as a fluid. This hydrodynamic behaviour of charge carriers leads to exciting nonlinear phenomena such as solitary waves and shocks, among others. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Pedro Cosme , Hugo Terças

We consider the effects of varying dispersion and nonlinearity on the stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of nonlinear PDE of KdV-type, including generalized KdV and Benjamin-Ono equations. In this investigation, we consider the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Mathew A. Johnson

Asymptotic stability of small solitons in one dimension is proved in the framework of a discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation with septic and higher power-law nonlinearities and an external potential supporting a simple isolated…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-10-13 P. G. Kevrekidis , D. E. Pelinovsky , A. Stefanov