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In a dilute non-Brownian suspension undergoing simple shear, pairwise hydrodynamic interactions are fore-aft symmetric at zero Reynolds number and produce no net cross-streamline displacement. A weak central repulsive force between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Anu V S Nath , Pijush Patra , Anubhab Roy

Fifth-order 1D nonlinear dispersion equations are shown to admit blow-up formation of shock waves as well as rarefaction waves. The concepts of smooth deformations are applied to distinguish "entropy" shocks from smooth rarefaction waves.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-11 V. A. Galaktionov

The theory of motion of edges of dispersive shock waves generated after wave breaking of simple waves is developed. It is shown that this motion obeys Hamiltonian mechanics complemented by a Hopf-like equation for evolution of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-03 A. M. Kamchatnov

A new regularisation of the shallow water (and isentropic Euler) equations is proposed. The regularised equations are non-dissipative, non-dispersive and possess a variational structure. Thus, the mass, the momentum and the energy are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Didier Clamond , Denys Dutykh

In this work, modulation of periodic interfacial waves on a conduit of viscous liquid is explored utilizing Whitham theory and Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) theory. Large amplitude periodic wave modulation theory does not require…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 Michelle D. Maiden , Mark. A. Hoefer

This study employs spectral methods to capture the behaviour of wave equation with dispersive-nonlinearity. We describe the evolution of hump initial data and track the conservation of the mass and energy functionals. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Umar Muhammad Dauda , Lawal Ja'afaru

A compressible viscous-dispersive Euler system in one space dimension in the context of quantum hydrodynamics is considered. The dispersive term is due to quantum effects described through the Bohm potential and the viscosity term is of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Raffaele Folino , Ramón G. Plaza , Delyan Zhelyazov

The two-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) can be used as a model of phenomena in physical systems ranging from waves on deep water to pulses in optical fibers. In this paper, we establish that every one-dimensional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-08 John D. Carter , Harvey Segur

We present the derivation of generic equations describing the long gravity waves in incompressible fluid with decaying effect. We show that in this theory the only restriction to the surface deviation is connected with the stability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-26 Vladimir I. Kruglov

Passive scalar mixing (metals, molecules, etc.) in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) is critical for abundance patterns of stars and clusters, galaxy and star formation, and cooling from the circumgalactic medium. However, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Matthew J. Colbrook , Xiangcheng Ma , Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire

We show that the multi-dimensional compressible Euler system for isothermal flow of an ideal, polytropic gas admits global-in-time, radially symmetric solutions with unbounded amplitudes due to wave focusing. The examples are similarity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Helge Kristian Jenssen , Charis Tsikkou

Dissipationless shock waves in modulational unstable one-dimensional medium are investigated on the simplest example of integrable focusing nonlinear Schr\''odinger (NS) equation. Our approach is based on the construction of special exact…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 Ramil' F. Bikbaev , Vadim R. Kudashev

We consider dispersive shock wave to the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation generated by a discontinuous initial condition which is periodic or quasi-periodic on the left semi-axis and zero on the right semi-axis. As an initial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Vladimir Kotlyarov , Alexander Minakov

Nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations such as the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations can have solutions that blow-up. We numerically study the long time behavior and potential blowup of solutions to the focusing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-20 C. Klein , B. Muite , K. Roidot

A new type of wave-mean flow interaction is identified and studied in which a small-amplitude, linear, dispersive modulated wave propagates through an evolving, nonlinear, large-scale fluid state such as an expansion (rarefaction) wave or a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-08-06 T. Congy , G. A. El , M. A. Hoefer

We consider linear instability of solitary waves of several classes of dispersive long wave models. They include generalizations of KDV, BBM, regularized Boussinesq equations, with general dispersive operators and nonlinear terms. We obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-04 Zhiwu Lin

The Whitham equation was proposed as a model for surface water waves that combines the quadratic flux nonlinearity $f(u) = \tfrac{1}{2}u^2$ of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and the full linear dispersion relation $\Omega(k) = \sqrt{k\tanh…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-01 Adam L. Binswanger , Mark A. Hoefer , Boaz Ilan , Patrick Sprenger

The self-consistent spatiotemporal evolution of drift wave (DW) radial envelope and zonal flow (ZF) amplitude is investigated in a slab model [1]. Stationary solution of the coupled partial differential equations in a simple limit yields…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 Zehua Guo , Liu Chen , Fulvio Zonca

Experiments have shown that shear waves induced in brain tissue can develop into shock waves, thus providing a possible explanation of deep traumatic brain injuries. Here, we study the formation of shock waves in soft viscoelastic solids…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-08 Harold Berjamin , Chockalingam Senthilnathan

In this paper we perform the analysis of spectral properties of the linearized system around constant states and dispersive shock for a 1-D compressible Euler system with dissipation--dispersion terms. The dispersive term is originated by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Corrado Lattanzio , Pierangelo Marcati , Delyan Zhelyazov