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We consider the Adlam-Allen (AA) system of partial differential equations which, arguably, is the first model that was introduced to describe solitary waves in the context of propagation of hydrodynamic disturbances in collisionless…

The evolution of the amplitude of two nonlinearly interacting waves is considered, via a set of coupled nonlinear Schroedinger-type equations. The dynamical profile is determined by the wave dispersion laws (i.e. the group velocities and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Kourakis , P. K. Shukla

It is well known that the water-wave problem with weak surface tension has small-amplitude line solitary-wave solutions which to leading order are described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. The present paper contains an existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Mark D. Groves , Shu-Ming Sun , Erik Wahlén

We rigorously study the long time dynamics of solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in {\it time-dependent} external potentials. To set the stage, we first establish the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Walid K. Abou Salem

In this paper, we study the orbital stability of standing waves for one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with potentials. We show that the standing waves are orbitally stable for all frequencies in the $L^{2}$- subcritical and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Noriyoshi Fukaya , Masahiro Ikeda , Hiroaki Kikuchi

In this work, we present a numerical study of the wave stability of steady solitary waves over a localised topographic obstacle through the full Euler equations. There are two branches of the solutions: one from the perturbed uniform flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-08 Marcelo V. Flamarion , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr

We consider the dynamics of internal envelope solitons in a two-layer rotating fluid with a linearly varying bottom. It is shown that the most probable frequency of a carrier wave which constitutes the solitary wave is the frequency where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-25 Yury Stepanyants

We study the behavior of nonlinear waves in a two-dimensional medium with density and stress relation that vary periodically in space. Efficient approximate Riemann solvers are developed for the corresponding variable-coefficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-18 Manuel Quezada de Luna David I. Ketcheson

In this paper, we characterize a family of solitary waves for NLS with derivative (DNLS) by the structue analysis and the variational argument. Since (DNLS) doesn't enjoy the Galilean invariance any more, the structure analysis here is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Changxing Miao , Xingdong Tang , Guixiang Xu

The model we deal with is the mathematical model for mutually penetrating continua one of which is the carrying medium obeying the wave equation whereas the other one is the oscillating inclusion described by the equation for oscillators.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-12-17 Sergii Skurativskyi , Vjacheslav Danylenko

Orbital stability property for weakly coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations is investigated. Different families of orbitally stable standing waves solutions will be found, generated by different classes of solutions of the associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-26 Liliane Maia , Eugenio Montefusco , Benedetta Pellacci

We consider the nonlinear Dirac equation in 1+1 dimension with scalar-scalar self interaction $ \frac{g^2}{\kappa+1} ({\bar \Psi} \Psi)^{\kappa+1}$ and with mass $m$. Using the exact analytic form for rest frame solitary waves of the form…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-09-24 Sihong Shao , Niurka R. Quintero , Franz G. Mertens , Fred Cooper , Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena

The present paper is a numerical study of the dynamics of solitary wave solutions of the fractional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation, whose existence was analyzed by the authors in the first part of the project. The computational study…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Angel Durán , Nuria Reguera

Should it be a pebble hitting water surface or an explosion taking place underwater, concentric surface waves inevitably propagate. Except for possibly early times of the impact, finite amplitude concentric water waves emerge from a balance…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-28 R. Krechetnikov

In this paper we study the existence and stability of normalized standing waves for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a general starlike graph with potentials. Under general assumptions on the graph and the potential, we show the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Alex H. Ardila

We discuss the behavior of solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (NLSE) as they interact with complex potentials, using a four parameter variational approximation based on a dissipation functional formulation of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-21 Franz G. Mertens , Fred Cooper , Edward Arevalo , Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena , A. R. Bishop

An explanation is given for previous numerical results which suggest a certain bifurcation of `vector solitons' from scalar (single-component) solitary waves in coupled nonlinear Schroedinger (NLS) systems. The bifurcation in question is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Alan Champneys , Jianke Yang

The existence of stationary solitary waves in symmetric and non-symmetric complex potentials is studied by means of Melnikov's perturbation method. The latter provides analytical conditions for the existence of such waves that bifurcate…

We analyze the existence and stability of two kinds of self-trapped spatially localized gap modes, gap solitons and truncated nonlinear Bloch waves, in one-and two-dimensional optical or matter-wave media with self-focusing nonlinearity,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-09-25 Jincheng Shi , Jianhua Zeng

Astrophysical disks that are sufficiently cold and dense are linearly unstable to the formation of axisymmetric rings as a result of the disk's gravity. In practice, spiral structures are formed, which may in turn produce bound fragments.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Hongping Deng , Gordon I. Ogilvie