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Standard diffusion equation is based on Brownian motion of the dispersing species without considering persistence in the movement of the individuals. This description allows for the instantaneous spreading of the transported species over an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-07-13 Pushpita Ghosh , Deb Shankar Ray

This is a brief survey of recent experimental studies on out-of-equilibrium scaling laws, focusing on two prominent situations where non-trivial universality classes have been identified theoretically: absorbing-state phase transitions and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-27 Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

A Langevin equation is suggested to describe a system driven by correlated Gaussian white noise as well as with positive and negative damping demarcated by a critical velocity. The equation can be transformed into the Fokker-Planck equation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-11 Peng Wang , Feng-Chun Pan , Jie Huo , Xu-Ming Wang

We consider a dissipative, dispersive system of Boussinesq type, describing wave phenomena in settings where dissipation has an effect. Examples include undular bores in rivers or oceans where dissipation due to turbulence is important for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Larkspur Brudvik-Lindner , Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

We generalize the oscillator model of a particle interacting with a thermal reservoir by introducing arbitrary nonlinear couplings in the particle coordinates.The equilibrium positions of the heat bath oscillators are promoted to space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Illuminati , M. Patriarca , P. Sodano

We identify a new universality class of phase transitions that arises in non-normal systems, challenging the classical view that transitions require eigenvalue instabilities. In traditional bifurcation theory, critical phenomena emerge when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-10 Virgile Troude , Didier Sornette

Noncritical strings in the "coupling constant" phase space and bosonic string in the affine-metric curved space are dissipative systems. But the quantum descriptions of the dissipative systems have well known ambiguities. We suggest some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Vasily E. Tarasov

We study incompressible systems of motile particles with alignment interactions. Unlike their compressible counterparts, in which the order-disorder (i.e., moving to static) transition, tuned by either noise or number density, is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-09 Leiming Chen , John Toner , Chiu Fan Lee

We demonstrate the controllable generation of distinct types of dispersive shock-waves emerging in a quantum droplet bearing environment with the aid of step-like initial conditions. Dispersive regularization of the ensuing hydrodynamic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-20 Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli , Simeon I. Mistakidis , Garyfallia C. Katsimiga , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We present here a semi-analytical solution of the problem of particle acceleration at non-linear shock waves with a free escape boundary at some location upstream. This solution, besides allowing us to determine the spectrum of particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Caprioli , E. Amato , P. Blasi

We obtain a general solution for the probability density function of wave intensities in non-stationary Wave Turbulence. The solution is expressed in terms of the wave action spectrum evolving according the the wave-kinetic equation. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yeontaek Choi , Young-Sam Kwon , Sanggyu Jo , Sergey Nazarenko

We consider a reaction-diffusion equation in a one-dimensional space, where the diffusion coefficient changes sign from positive to negative and back to positive. The reaction term is bistable, with its interior zero located in the region…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Diego Berti , Andrea Corli , Luisa Malaguti

Unveiling universal non-equilibrium scaling laws has been a central theme in modern statistical physics, with recent attention increasingly directed toward non-equilibrium phases that exhibit rich dynamical phenomena. A striking example…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-15 Shuoguang Liu , Peter B. Littlewood , Ryo Hanai

We study a chain of anharmonic springs with tunable power law interactions as a minimal model to explore the propagation of strongly non-linear solitary wave excitations in a background of thermal fluctuations. By treating the solitary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Upadhyaya , A. M. Turner , V. Vitelli

Turbulence is one of the most frequently encountered non-equilibrium phenomena in nature yet characterising the transition that gives rise to it has remained an elusive task. Although in recent studies critical points marking the onset of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-19 Liang Shi , Gregoire Lemoult , Kerstin Avila , Shreyas Jalikop , Marc Avila , Björn Hof

In this paper we consider semilinear wave equation and other second order $\sigma$-evolution equations with different (effective or non-effective) damping mechanisms driven by fractional Laplace operators; in particular, the nonlinear term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Wenhui Chen , Giovanni Girardi

We experimentally and numerically report on the formation of ballistic dispersive shock waves that mimic superfluid behavior in optical fibers. The shock wave is triggered by a strong nonlinear phase shift induced by a high power pump pulse…

In this work, we propose a novel selective discontinuity sensor approach for numerical simulations of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Since transformation to characteristic space is already a common approach to reduce…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-16 Amareshwara Sainadh Chamarthi , Natan Hoffmann , Steven Frankel

A strongly damped wave equation including the displacement depending nonlinear damping term and nonlinear interaction function is considered. The main aim of the note is to show that under the standard dissipativity restrictions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Varga Kalantarov , Sergey Zelik

This paper focuses on the study of semilinear fractional diffusion-wave equations in the context of critical nonlinearities. Firstly, we address the issue of local well-posedness for the problem, examine spatial regularity, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Masterson Costa , Claudio Cuevas , Bruno de Andrade