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This paper probes the dispersive shock waves (DSWs) theory in nonlinear optical systems through Whitham modulation theory for the high-order Chen-Lee-Liu (HOCLL) equation. We systematically derived the one-phase periodic solutions and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Hua-Ying Ren , Rui Guo , Jian-Wen Zhang

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) in the three dimensional Benjamin- Ono (3DBO) equation is studied with step-like initial condition along a paraboloid front. By using a similarity reduction, problem of studying DSWs in three space one time…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-08-29 Ali Demirci

In most classical fluids, shock waves are strongly dissipative, their energy being quickly lost through viscous damping. But in systems such as cold plasmas, superfluids, and Bose-Einstein condensates, where viscosity is negligible or…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wenjie Wan , Shu Jia , Jason W. Fleischer

We introduce and systematically investigate the generation of dispersive shock waves, which arise naturally in physical settings such as optical waveguide arrays and superfluids confined within optical lattices. The underlying physically…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-13 Su Yang , Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

The formation and properties of envelope dispersive shock wave (DSW) excitations from repulsive nonlinear waves in a magnetic film are studied. Experiments involve the excitation of a spin-wave step pulse in a low-loss magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 P. A. Praveen Janantha , Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer , Mingzhong Wu

In this work, a one-dimensional simulation code was developed for both single-phase and two-phase systems, focusing on time-dependent Euler equations for gas and particles. These equations, non-linear hyperbolic conservation laws, describe…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-05 M. Giselle Fernández-Godino

The problem of wave breaking during its propagation in the Bose-Einstein condensate to a stationary medium is considered for the case when the initial profile at the breaking instant can be approximated by a power function of the form…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-31 A. M. Kamchatnov

In this work, we investigate non-classical wavetrain formations, and particularly dispersive shock waves (DSWs), or undular bores, in systems exhibiting non-convex dispersion. Our prototypical model, which arises in shallow water wave…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-03-06 Saleh Baqer , Theodoros P. Horikis , Dimitrios J. Frantzeskakis

A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a quantum fluid that gives rise to interesting shock wave nonlinear dynamics. Experiments depict a BEC that exhibits behavior similar to that of a shock wave in a compressible gas, eg. traveling fronts…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Hoefer , M. J. Ablowitz , I. Coddington , E. A. Cornell , P. Engels , V. Schweikhard

We suggest a method for calculation of parameters of dispersive shock waves in framework of Whitham modulation theory applied to non-integrable wave equations with a wide class of initial conditions corresponding to propagation of a pulse…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-01-09 A. M. Kamchatnov

We consider the 2D isentropic compressible Euler equations, with pressure law $p(\rho) = (\sfrac{1}{\gamma}) \rho^\gamma$, with $\gamma >1$. We provide an elementary constructive proof of shock formation from smooth initial datum of finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Tristan Buckmaster , Steve Shkoller , Vlad Vicol

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) are fascinating wave phenomena occurring in media when nonlinearity overwhelms dispersion (or diffraction). Creating DSWs with low generation power and realizing their active controls is desirable but remains a…

We study the propagation of narrow solitons through various profiles of dispersive shock waves (DSW) for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation. We consider situations in which the soliton passes through the DSW region quickly enough…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-14 Shaykin Dmitriy

We analyze the shock formation process for the 3d non-isentropic Euler equations with the ideal gas law, in which sounds waves interact with entropy waves to produce vorticity. Building on our theory for isentropic flows in [3,4], we give a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Tristan Buckmaster , Steve Shkoller , Vlad Vicol

We consider shear wave propagation in soft viscoelastic solids of rate type. Based on objective stress rates, the constitutive model accounts for finite strain, incompressibility, as well as stress- and strain-rate viscoelasticity. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-25 Harold Berjamin , Michel Destrade , Giuseppe Saccomandi

The aim of this article is to study the limiting behavior of the solutions for the scaled generalized Euler equations of compressible fluid flow. When the initial data is of Riemann type, we showed the existence of solution which consists…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Manas Ranjan Sahoo , Abhrojyoti Sen

We study a dispersive counterpart of the classical gas dynamics problem of the interaction of a shock wave with a counter-propagating simple rarefaction wave often referred to as the shock wave refraction. The refraction of a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-28 G. A. El , V. V. Khodorovskii , A. M. Leszczyszyn

We define compressive and rarefactive waves and give the differential equations describing smooth wave steepening for the compressible Euler equations with a varying entropy profile and general pressure laws. Using these differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Geng Chen

Recently, there has been interest in determining the viscoelastic properties of polymeric liquids and other complex fluids by means of Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (DWS). In this technique, light-scattering spectroscopy is applied to highly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-27 George D. J. Phillies

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) in the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation and two dimensional Benjamin-Ono (2DBO) equation are considered using parabolic front initial data. Employing a front tracking type ansatz exactly reduces the study…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-05-04 Mark J. Ablowitz , Ali Demirci , Yi-Ping Ma