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We consider the extended Korteweg-de Vries (eKdV) equation as a model for long moderately nonlinear surface water waves. In the slow time formulation this equation generates fast propagating resonant radiation due to the non-convexity of…
Instead of taking the usual passive view for warning of near shore surging waves including extreme waves like tsunamis, we aim to study the possibility of intervening and controlling nonlinear surface waves through the feedback boundary…
A number of simplified dynamical problems is studied in an attempt to clarify some of the mechanisms leading to turbulence and the existing proposals to control this transition. A simplified set of boundary layer equations displays a…
The asymptotic behavior of three-body scattering wave functions in configuration space is studied by considering a model equation that has the same asymptotic form as the Faddeev equations. Boundary conditions for the wave function are…
Equations relating the pressure at a horizontal seabed, the free-surface profile and the surface-pressure are derived for two-dimensional irrotational steady water waves with arbitrary pressure at the free surface. Special cases include…
Solitary waves in a general nonlinear lattice are discussed, employing as a model the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a spatially periodic nonlinear coefficient. An asymptotic theory is developed for long solitary waves, that span a…
In this communication we test the hypothesis that for some initial conditions the time evolution of surface waves according to the extended KdV equation (KdV2) exhibits signatures of the deterministic chaos.
We study the scattering of scalar waves propagating on the global monopole background. Since the scalar wave operator in this topological defect is not essentially self-adjoint, its solutions are not uniquely determined until a boundary…
Trapped solitary-wave interaction is studied under the full Euler equations in the presence of a variable pressure distribution along the free surace. The physical domain is flattened conformally onto a strip and the computations are…
The stability of naked singularities in self-similar collapse is probed using scalar waves. It is shown that the multipoles of a minimally coupled massless scalar field propagating on a spherically symmetric self-similar background…
We study the steady uniphase and multiphase solutions of the discretized nonlinear damped wave equation.Conditions for the stability abd instability of the steady solutions are given;in the instability case the linear stable and unstable…
In this paper, we investigate a system composed of two degenerate wave equations which are connected at one point. By introducing some inequalities on the weighted spaces and employing the frequency domain method, we prove that the system…
In this work we derive evolution equations for the nonlinear behavior of a coasting beam under the influence of a resonator impedance. Using a renormalization group approach we find a set of coupled nonlinear equations for the beam density…
We prove the nonlinear stability of the KdV solitary waves considered as solutions of the KP-II equation, with respect to periodic transverse perturbations.
The existence of ``dispersion-managed solitons'', i.e., stable pulsating solitary-wave solutions to the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with periodically modulated and sign-variable dispersion is now well known in nonlinear optics. Our…
The aim of this paper is to provide a proof of the (conditional) orbital stability of solitary waves solutions to the fractional Korteweg- de Vries equation (fKdV) and to the fractional Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (fBBM) equation in the $L^2$…
In this paper we establish a rigorous spectral stability analysis for solitary waves associated to a generalized fractional Benjamin-Bona-Mahony type equation. Besides the well known smooth and positive solitary wave with large wave speed,…
Periodic waves in the fractional Korteweg-de Vries equation have been previously characterized as constrained minimizers of energy subject to fixed momentum and mass. Here we characterize these periodic waves as constrained minimizers of…
We study the exact controllability for spatially periodic water waves with surface tension, by localized exterior pressures applied to free surfaces. We prove that in any dimension, the exact controllability holds within arbitrarily short…