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In the limit of small values of the aspect ratio parameter (or wave steepness) which measures the amplitude of a surface wave in units of its wave-length, a model equation is derived from the Euler system in infinite depth (deep water)…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Kraenkel , J. Leon , M. A. Manna

In this paper we study solitary traveling wave solutions to a damped shallow water system, which is in general quasilinear and of mixed type. We develop a small data well-posedness theory and prove that traveling wave solutions are a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Noah Stevenson , Ian Tice

In this article we discuss a new Hamiltonian PDE arising from a class of equations appearing in the study of magma, partially molten rock, in the Earth's interior. Under physically justifiable simplifications, a scalar, nonlinear,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-01-18 Gideon Simpson , Michael I. Weinstein , Philip Rosenau

The interest in the Camassa-Holm equation inspired the search for various generalizations of this equation with interesting properties and applications. In this letter we deal with such a two-component integrable system of coupled…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-07-14 Adrian Constantin , Rossen I. Ivanov

This is a study of two-dimensional steady periodic travelling waves on the surface of an infinitely deep irrotational ocean, when the top streamline is in contact with a membrane which has a nonlinear response to stretching and bending, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-05-06 Pietro Baldi , John F. Toland

The possible solitary wave solutions for a general Boussinesq (GBQ) type fluid model are studied analytically. After proving the non-Painlev\'e integrability of the model, the first type of exact explicit travelling solitary wave with a…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Chun-li Chen , Sen-yue Lou

The dynamics of solitary gravity-capillary water waves propagating on the surface of a three-dimensional fluid domain is studied numerically. In order to accurately compute complex time dependent solutions, we simplify the full potential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhan Wang , Paul A Milewski

We study the orbital stability of smooth solitary wave solutions of the Novikov equation, which is a Camassa-Holm type equation with cubic nonlinearities. These solitary waves are shown to exist as a one-parameter family (up to spatial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Brett Ehrman , Mathew A. Johnson , Stéphane Lafortune

A new class of solitary waves arises in the solution of nonlinear wave equations with constant impedance and no dispersive terms. They depend on a balance between nonlinearity and a dispersion-like effect due to spatial variation in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-12-17 David I. Ketcheson , Manuel Quezada de Luna

We provide the first construction of overhanging gravity water waves having the approximate form of a disk joined to a strip by a thin neck. The waves are solitary with constant vorticity, and exist when an appropriate dimensionless…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Juan Dávila , Manuel del Pino , Monica Musso , Miles H. Wheeler

This paper proves existence and stability results of solitary-wave solutions to coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with power-type nonlinearities arising in several models of modern physics. The existence of solitary waves is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Santosh Bhattarai

The present paper deals with sufficient conditions for orbital stability of periodic waves of a general class of evolution equations supporting nonlinear dispersive waves. Our method can be seen as an extension to spatially periodic waves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Giovana Alves , Fábio Natali , Ademir Pastor

Hydroelastic solitary waves propagating on the surface of a three-dimensional ideal fluid through the deformation of an elastic sheet are studied. The problem is investigated based on a Benney-Luke-type equation derived via an explicit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Yanghan Meng , Zhan Wang

The Whitham equation was proposed as an alternate model equation for the simplified description of uni-directional wave motion at the surface of an inviscid fluid. As the Whitham equation incorporates the full linear dispersion relation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Daulet Moldabayev , Henrik Kalisch , Denys Dutykh

Frequently encountered in nature, internal solitary waves in stratified fluids are well-observed and well-studied from the experimental, the theoretical, and the numerical perspective. From the mathematical point of view, these waves are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Andreas Klaiber

We prove the existence of solitary wave solutions to the quasilinear Benney system $$iu_{t}+u_{xx}=a|u|^pu+uv,\quad v_t+f(v)_x=(|u|^2)_x$$ where $f(v)=-\gamma v^3$, $-1<p<+\infty$ and $a,\gamma>0$. We establish, in particular, the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-04 João-Paulo Dias , Mário Figueira , Filipe Oliveira

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

This paper investigates solitary water waves propagating along the surface of a two-dimensional dielectric fluid with constant vorticity in the presence of an external electric field. We formulate the system as a nonlinear free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Tingting Feng , Yong Zhang , Zhitao Zhang

In this paper, we delve into the study of the generalized KP equation, which incorporates double-power nonlinearities. Our investigation covers various aspects, including the existence of solitary waves, their nonlinear stability, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Amin Esfahani , Steven Levandosky , Gulcin M. Muslu

The Degasperis-Procesi equation is an approximating model of shallow-water wave propagating mainly in one direction to the Euler equations. Such a model equation is analogous to the Camassa-Holm approximation of the two-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Ji Li , Yue Liu , Qiliang Wu