English
Related papers

Related papers: Modulational instability and variational structure

200 papers

In this paper, we are interested in studying the modulational dynamics of interfacial waves rising buoyantly along a conduit of a viscous liquid. Formally, the behavior of modulated periodic waves on large space and time scales may be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Mathew A. Johnson , Wesley R. Perkins

We study the modulational instability induced by periodic variations of group-velocity dispersion and nonlinear coefficients in a highly birefringent fiber. We observe, for each resonance order, the presence of two pairs of genuine vector…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-27 Andrea Armaroli , Fabio Biancalana

We study the stability of coherent structures in plane Couette flow against long-wavelength perturbations in wide domains that cover several pairs of coherent structures. For one and two pairs of vortices, the states retain the stability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-10 Konstantin Melnikov , Tobias Kreilos , Bruno Eckhardt

The dynamics of two pairs of counter-propagating waves in two-component media is considered within the framework of two generally nonintegrable coupled Sine-Gordon equations. We consider the dynamics of weakly nonlinear wave packets, and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Griffiths , R. H. J. Grimshaw , K. R. Khusnutdinova

This paper considers properties of nonlinear waves and solitons of Korteweg-de Vries equation in the presence of external perturbation. For time-periodic hamiltonian perturbation the width of the stochastic layer is calculated. The…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 K. B. Blyuss

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

We study the stability and dynamics of solitons in the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in the presence of noise and deterministic forcing. The noise is space-dependent and statistically translation-invariant. We show that, for small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Rik W. S. Westdorp , Hermen Jan Hupkes

We investigate the phenomenon of parametric instability in discrete models of spatiotemporally modulated materials. These materials are celebrated in part because they exhibit nonreciprocal transmission characteristics. However, parametric…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-20 Jiuda Wu , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

We examine the modulational and parametric instabilities arising in a non-autonomous, discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation setting. The principal motivation for our study stems from the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Z. Rapti , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Smerzi , A. R. Bishop

Inertial waves transport energy and momentum in rotating fluids and are a major contributor to mixing and tidal dissipation in Earth's oceans, gaseous planets, and stellar interiors. However, their stability and breakdown mechanisms are not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Valentin Skoutnev , Aurélie Astoul , Adrian J. Barker

Rotation modulates turbulence causing columnar structuring of a turbulent flow in case of sufficiently strong rotation. This yields significant changes in the flow characteristics and dispersion properties, which makes rotational turbulence…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-04-07 Arkadiusz K. Kuczaj , Bernard J. Geurts , Darryl D. Holm

Spontaneous pattern formation in a variety of spatially extended nonlinear system always occurs through a modulation instability: homogeneous state of the system becomes unstable with respect to growing modulation modes. Therefore, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-08-25 S. Kumar , R. Herrero , M. Botey , K. Staliunas

{We study a model of small-amplitude traveling waves arising in a supercritical Hopf-bifurcation, that are coupled to a slowly varying, real field. The field is advected by the waves and, in turn, affects their stability via a coupling to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Alex Roxin , Hermann Riecke

We study the modulational instability of a shallow water model, with and without surface tension, which generalizes the Whitham equation to include bi-directional propagation. Without surface tension, the small amplitude periodic traveling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Ashish Kumar Pandey

We study the effect of external stochastic modulation on a system with O(2) symmetry that exhibits a Hopf or oscillatory instability in the absence of modulation. The study includes a random component in both the control parameter of the…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 Francois Drolet , Jorge Vinals

We examine the spectral stability and instability of periodic traveling waves for regularized long-wave models. Examples include the regularized Boussinesq, Benney--Luke, and Benjamin--Bona--Mahony equations. Of particular interest is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Jared C. Bronski , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Samuel Lee Wester

By a refinement of the technique used by Johnson and Zumbrun to show stability under localized perturbations, we show that spectral stability implies nonlinear modulational stability of periodic traveling-wave solutions of reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Mathew Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

The well-known Stokes waves refer to periodic traveling waves under the gravity at the free surface of a two dimensional full water wave system. In this paper, we prove that small-amplitude Stokes waves with infinite depth are nonlinearly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Gong Chen , Qingtang Su

In this paper, we study modulation instabilities (MI) in a one-dimensional chain configuration of a flexible mechanical metamaterial (flexMM). Using the lumped element approach, flexMMs can be modeled by a coupled system of discrete…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Antoine Demiquel , Vassos Achilleos , Georgios Theocharis , Vincent Tournat

In this paper, we investigate the spectral instability of periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation to long wavelength transverse perturbations in the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation. By…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-09 Mathew A. Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun