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In this note, we report on recent findings concerning the spectral and nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of hyperbolic-parabolic systems of balance laws, as applied to the St. Venant equations of shallow water flow…
Extending results of Oh and Zumbrun in dimensions $d\ge 3$, we establish nonlinear stability and asymptotic behavior of spatially-periodic traveling-wave solutions of viscous systems of conservation laws in critical dimensions $d=1,2$,…
This paper is devoted to studying impedance eigenvalues (that is, eigenvalues of a particular Dirichlet-to-Neumann map) for the time harmonic linear elastic wave problem, and their potential use as target-signatures for fluid-solid…
We propose an extension of the numerical approach for integrable Richardson-Gaudin models based on a new set of eigenvalue-based variables. Starting solely from the Gaudin algebra, the approach is generalized towards the full class of XXZ…
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…
In this paper, we determine spectral stability results of periodic waves for the critical Korteweg-de Vries and Gardner equations. For the first equation, we show that both positive and zero mean periodic traveling wave solutions possess a…
This paper sheds new light on the stability properties of solitary wave solutions associated with models of Korteweg-de Vries and Benjamin\&Bona\&Mahoney type, when the dispersion is very lower. Via an approach of compactness, analyticity…
We consider the reflection-transmission problem in a waveguide with obstacle. At certain frequencies, for some incident waves, intensity is perfectly transmitted and the reflected field decays exponentially at infinity. In this work, we…
We consider smooth solutions of the Burgers-Hilbert equation that are a small perturbation $\delta$ from a global periodic traveling wave with small amplitude $\epsilon$. We use a modified energy method to prove the existence time of smooth…
In this paper we develop a plane wave type method for discretization of homogeneous Helmholtz equations with variable wave numbers. In the proposed method, local basis functions (on each element) are constructed by the geometric optics…
Stochastic dynamics has emerged as one of the key themes ranging from models in applications to theoretical foundations in mathematics. One class of stochastic dynamics problems that has received considerable attention recently are…
We investigate the stability of the wave equation with spatial dependent coefficients on a bounded multidimensional domain. The system is stabilized via a scattering passive feedback law. We formulate the wave equation in a port-Hamiltonian…
Motivated by physical and numerical observations of time oscillatory ``galloping'', ``spinning'', and ``cellular'' instabilities of detonation waves, we study Poincar\'e--Hopf bifurcation of traveling-wave solutions of viscous conservation…
We study travelling-wave spatially periodic solutions of a forced Cahn-Hilliard equation. This is a model for phase separation of a binary mixture, subject to external forcing. We look at arbitrary values of the mean mixture concentration,…
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of several aspects of the sinh-Gordon equation within a periodic setting. Our investigation proceeds in three main stages. First we establish the existence of periodic solutions for a fixed wave…
Toeplitz matrices have entries that are constant along diagonals. They model directed transport, are at the heart of correlation function calculations of the two-dimensional Ising model, and have applications in quantum information science.…
We develop a stable and efficient numerical scheme for modeling the optical field evolution in a nonlinear dispersive cavity with counter propagating waves and complex, semiconductor physics gain dynamics that are expensive to evaluate. Our…
This paper develops some interior penalty $hp$-discontinuous Galerkin ($hp$-DG) methods for the Helmholtz equation in two and three dimensions. The proposed $hp$-DG methods are defined using a sesquilinear form which is not only…
We establish instability of periodic traveling waves arising in conservation laws featuring phase transition. The analysis uses the Evans function framework introduced by R.A. Gardner in the periodic case. The main new tool is a periodic…