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We develop a theoretical framework that predicts and fully characterizes the diverse experimental observations of the nonlinear, combustion wave propagation in a rotating detonation engine (RDE), including the nucleation and formation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-18 James Koch , Mitsuru Kurosaka , Carl Knowlen , J. Nathan Kutz

We present a novel geometric approach for determining the unique structure of a Hamiltonian and establishing an instability criterion for quantum quadratic systems. Our geometric criterion provides insights into the underlying geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Xuanloc Leu , Xuan-Hoai Thi Nguyen , Jinhyoung Lee

We study pattern-forming nonlinear dynamics starting from a continuous wave state of quasi-one-dimensional two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with synthetic spin-orbit coupling induced by Raman lasers. Modulation instability can occur…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-02-20 Thudiyangal Mithun , Kenichi Kasamatsu

Modulational instability has been used to explain the formation of breather and rogue waves qualitatively. In this paper, we show modulational instability can be used to explain the structure of them in a quantitative way. We develop a…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-04-04 Liming Ling , Li-Chen Zhao

In this paper we establish the orbital stability of periodic waves related to the logarithmic Korteweg-de Vries equation. Our motivation is inspired in the recent work \cite{carles}, in which the authors established the well-posedness and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Fábio Natali , Ademir Pastor , Fabrício Cristófani

We investigate stability of both localized time-periodic coherent states (pulsons) and uniformly distributed coherent states (oscillating condensate) of a real scalar field satisfying the Klein-Gordon equation with a logarithmic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-29 Vladimir A. Koutvitsky , Eugene M. Maslov

In this paper, we consider the spectral stability of spatially periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation to long-wavelength perturbations. Specifically, we extend the work of Bronski and Johnson by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-12 Mathew Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

We consider periodic solutions to equations of Korteweg-Devries type. While the stability theory for periodic waves has received much some attention the theory is much less developed than the analogous theory for solitary wave stability,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-27 Jared C. Bronski , Mathew A. Johnson , Todd Kapitula

This paper proves long-standing conjectures regarding the existence of infinitely many high-frequency modulational instability ``isolas" for a Stokes wave in arbitrary depth $ \mathtt{h} > 0 $, under longitudinal perturbations. We provide a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Massimiliano Berti , Livia Corsi , Alberto Maspero , Paolo Ventura

A single incompressible, inviscid, irrotational fluid medium bounded above by a free surface is considered. The Hamiltonian of the system is expressed in terms of the so-called Dirichlet-Neumann operators. The equations for the surface…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-09-06 Rossen I. Ivanov

We study the properties of modulational instability and discrete breathers arising in a quasi-one-dimensional discrete Gross-Pitaevskii equation with Lee-Huang-Yang corrections. Conditions for modulation instability and instability regions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-01 Sherzod R. Otajonov , Bakhram A. Umarov , Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev

We analyze a numerical instability that occurs in the well-known split-step Fourier method on the background of a soliton. This instability is found to be very sensitive to small changes of the parameters of both the numerical grid and the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2010-08-31 Taras I. Lakoba

This paper sets out to explore the modulational (or Benjamin-Feir) instability of a monochromatic wave propagating in the presence of damping such as that induced by sea-ice on the ocean surface. The fundamental wave motion is modelled…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-12 Raphael Stuhlmeier , Conor Heffernan , Alberto Alberello , Emilian Părău

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

A parametric instability of an incompressible, viscous, and Boussinesq fluid layer bounded between two parallel planes is investigated numerically. The layer is assumed to be inclined at an angle with horizontal. The planes bounding the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-01 Jitender Singh

In this paper, modulation instability and nonlinear supratransmission are investigated in a one-dimensional chain of atoms using cubic-quartic nonlinearity coefficients. As a result, we establish the discrete nonlinear evolution equation by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-09 Alphonse Houwe , Souleymanou Abbagari , Lanre Akinyemi , Serge Yamigno Doka , Kofane Timoleon Crepin

We prove high-frequency modulational instability of small-amplitude Stokes waves in deep water under longitudinal perturbations, providing the first isola of unstable eigenvalues branching off from $\mathtt{i}\frac34$. Unlike the finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Massimiliano Berti , Alberto Maspero , Paolo Ventura

Flow structures beneath a moving disturbance along a water free surface in the weakly nonlinear weakly dispersive regime in a sheared channel with finite depth and constant vorticity are investigated. We compute the exact two branches of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-25 Marcelo V. Flamarion

The present contribution contains a quite extensive theory for the stability analysis of plane periodic waves of general Schr{\"o}dinger equations. On one hand, we put the one-dimensional theory, or in other words the stability theory for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Corentin Audiard , L Rodrigues

The modulational instability of two interacting waves in a nonlocal Kerr-type medium is considered analytically and numerically. For a generic choice of wave amplitudes, we give a complete description of stable/unstable regimes for zero…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Evgeny V. Doktorov , Maxim A. Molchan