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We investigate analytically the propagation of linear waves in a three-dimensional, nonmagnetic, isothermal atmosphere stratified in plane-parallel layers. The motivation is to study oscillations in the non-magnetic chromosphere and to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Bodo , W. Kalkofen , S. Massaglia , P. Rossi

The evolution of the properties of short-scale electrostatic waves across collisionless shocks remains an open question. We use a method based on the interferometry of the electric field measured aboard the magnetospheric multiscale…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Ahmad Lalti , Yuri V. Khotyaintsev , Daniel B. Graham , Andris Vaivads

As a shock front interacts with turbulence, it develops corrugation which induces outgoing wave modes in the downstream plasma. For a fast shock wave, the incoming wave modes can either be fast magnetosonic waves originating from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 M. Lemoine , O. Ramos , L. Gremillet

We observe the formation of shock waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate containing a large number of sodium atoms. The shock wave is initiated with a repulsive, blue-detuned light barrier, intersecting the BEC, after which two shock fronts…

The Stokes wave problem in a constant vorticity flow is formulated via a conformal mapping as a modified Babenko equation. The associated linearized operator is self-adjoint, whereby efficiently solved by the Newton-conjugate gradient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-12 Sergey A. Dyachenko , Vera Mikyoung Hur

Nonlinear plane acoustic waves propagating through a fluid are studied using Burgers' equation with finite viscosity. The evolution of a simple N-pulse with regular and random initial amplitude and of pulses with monochromatic and noise…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei N. Gurbatov , Bengt O. Enflo , Galina V. Pasmanik

We study the attenuation of long-wavelength shear sound waves propagating through model jammed packings of frictionless soft spheres interacting with repulsive springs. The elastic attenuation coefficient, $\alpha(\omega)$, of transverse…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-09-09 Vincenzo Vitelli

We construct an asymptotic (in a weak sense) solution corresponding to the shock wave formation in a special situation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. Danilov , D. Mitrovic

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

Weakly coupled oscillators are used throughout the physical sciences, particularly in mathematical neuroscience to describe the interaction of neurons in the brain. Systems of weakly coupled oscillators have a well-known decomposition to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Jason Bramburger

We determine the spectrum of particles accelerated at shocks with arbitrary speed and arbitrary scattering properties for different choices of the equation of state of the downstream plasma. More specifically we consider the effect of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Morlino , P. Blasi , M. Vietri

Observations of coronal waves (CWs) interacting with coronal holes (CHs) show the formation of typical wave-like features, such as reflected, refracted and transmitted waves (collectively, secondary waves). In accordance with these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 I. Piantschitsch , J. Terradas

A system of two coupled oscillators, each of them coupled to an independent reservoir, is analysed. The analytical solution of the non-rotating wave master equation is obtained in the high-temperature and weak coupling limits. No thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 A. Ghesquière , I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione

The angular and frequency correlation functions of the transmission coefficient for light propagation through a strongly scattering amplifying medium are considered. It is found that just as in the case of an elastic scattering medium the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Burkov , A. Yu. Zyuzin

The synchronized phase of globally coupled nonlinear oscillators subject to noise fluctuations is studied by means of a new analytical approach able to tackle general couplings, nonlinearities, and noise temporal correlations. Our results…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Esteban Moro , Angel Sanchez

The propagation of small-amplitude inhomogeneous plane waves in an isotropic homogeneous incompressible Mooney--Rivlin material is considered when the material is maintained in a state of finite static homogeneous deformation. Disturbances…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-02 Michel Destrade

This study investigates the interaction of a shock wave with a fixed layer of particles in cylindrical geometries using particle-resolved large eddy simulations. The curvature radius of the particle layer is varied and the resulting flow…

A theoretical investigation associated with obliquely propagating ion-acoustic shock waves (IASHWs) in a three-component magnetized plasma having inertialess non-extensive electrons, inertial warm positive and negative ions has been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 T. Yeashna , R. K. Shikha , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , S. Sultana , A. A. Mamun

In this paper, we rigorously prove the existence of self-similar converging shock wave solutions for the non-isentropic Euler equations for $\gamma\in (1,3]$. These solutions are analytic away from the shock interface before collapse, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Juhi Jang , Jiaqi Liu , Matthew Schrecker

We study collective phenomena of self-propagating particles using the nonlinear Kramers equation. A solitary wave state appears from an instability of the spatially uniform ordered state with nonzero average velocity. Two solitary waves…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Kazuya Ishibashi