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We present a way to deal with dispersion-dominated ``shock-type'' transition in the absence of completely integrable structure for the systems that one may characterize as strictly hyperbolic regularized by a small amount of dispersion. The…

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The one-dimensional piston shock problem is a classical result of shock wave theory. In this work, the analogous dispersive shock wave (DSW) problem for a dispersive fluid described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is analyzed.…

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We develop a general approach to the description of dispersive shock waves (DSWs) for a class of nonlinear wave equations with a nonlocal Benjamin-Ono type dispersion term involving the Hilbert transform. Integrability of the governing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-03-06 G. A. El , L. T. K. Nguyen , N. F. Smyth

An outstanding problem in Earth science is understanding the method of transport of magma in the Earth's mantle. Models for this process, transport in a viscously deformable porous media, give rise to scalar degenerate, dispersive,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Gideon Simpson , Marc Spiegelman , Michael I. Weinstein

A new condition for the linear dissipative instability of the strong plane shock wave in an arbitrary medium is obtained. The instability of the shock is realized due to the flow instability behind its front, which is similar to the known…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-24 Sergey G. Chefranov

In this paper, we study the nonlinear dispersive waves including the rarefaction and dispersive shock waves in the discrete modified KdV equation through the numerical simulations of the dispersive Riemann problems. In particular, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-06 Su Yang

The condition of linear instability for a converging cylindrical strong shock wave (SW) in an arbitrary viscous medium is obtained in the limit of a large stationary SW radius, when it is possible to consider the same Rankine-Hugoniot jump…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-03 Sergey G. Chefranov

We experimentally probe nonlinear wave propagation in weakly compressed granular media, and observe a crossover from quasi-linear sound waves at low impact, to shock waves at high impact. We show that this crossover grows with the confining…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-15 Siet van den Wildenberg , Rogier van Loo , Martin van Hecke

We consider two physically and mathematically distinct regularization mechanisms of scalar hyperbolic conservation laws. When the flux is convex, the combination of diffusion and dispersion are known to give rise to monotonic and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 G. A. El , M. A. Hoefer , M. Shearer

We consider evolution of wave pulses with formation of dispersive shock waves in framework of fully nonlinear shallow-water equations. Situations of initial elevations or initial dips on the water surface are treated and motion of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-08 S. K. Ivanov , A. M. Kamchatnov

The Riemann problem for the discrete conservation law $2 \dot{u}_n + u^2_{n+1} - u^2_{n-1} = 0$ is classified using Whitham modulation theory, a quasi-continuum approximation, and numerical simulations. A surprisingly elaborate set of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-21 Patrick Sprenger , Christopher Chong , Emmanuel Okyere , Michael Herrmann , P. G. Kevrekidis , Mark A. Hoefer

In this work, we investigate non-classical wavetrain formations, and particularly dispersive shock waves (DSWs), or undular bores, in systems exhibiting non-convex dispersion. Our prototypical model, which arises in shallow water wave…

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Dispersive shock waves dominate wave-breaking phenomena in Hamiltonian systems. In the absence of loss, these highly irregular and disordered waves are potentially reversible. However, no experimental evidence has been given about the…

A systematic and full description of the theory for a dissipation mechanism of wind wave energy in a spectral representation is given. As a basis of the theory, the fundamental is stated that the most general dissipation mechanism for wind…

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The diffusive viscous wave equation describes wave propagation in diffusive and viscous media. Examples include seismic waves traveling through the Earth's crust, taking into account of both the elastic properties of rocks and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Siyang Wang

The dynamical behavior resulting from an initial discontinuity in focusing media is investigated using a combination of numerical simulations and Whitham modulation theory for the focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Initial conditions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-05 Gino Biondini

A mechanism for dispersion to automatically arise from the dispersionless Whitham Modulation equations (WMEs) is presented, relying on the use of a moving frame. The speed of this is chosen to be one of the characteristics which emerge from…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-06-19 D. J. Ratliff

Motile and driven particles confined in microfluidic channels exhibit interesting emergent behavior from propagating density bands to density shock waves. A deeper understanding of the physical mechanisms responsible for these emergent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-03 Alan Cheng Hou Tsang , Eva Kanso

Media composed of colliding hard disks (2D) or hard spheres (3D) serve as good approximations for the collective hydrodynamic description of gases, liquids and granular media. In the present study, the compressible hydrodynamics and shock…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Nick Sirmas , Marion Tudorache , Javier Barahona , Matei I. Radulescu

The mechanism of diffusing diffusivity predicts that, in environments where the diffusivity changes gradually, the displacement distribution becomes non-Gaussian, even though the mean-squared displacement (MSD) grows linearly with time.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-18 Mpumelelo Matse , Mykyta V. Chubynsky , John Bechhoefer