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The effect of the modulation instability on the propagation of solitary waves along one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with cubic nonlinearity is revisited. A self-contained quasicontinuum approximation is developed…

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An unconstrained, non-linearly elastic, semi-infinite solid is maintained in a state of large static plane strain. A power-law relation between the pre-stretches is assumed and it is shown that this assumption is well-motivated physically…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-12-09 J. G. Murphy , M. Destrade

In this paper, modulation instability and nonlinear supratransmission are investigated in a one-dimensional chain of atoms using cubic-quartic nonlinearity coefficients. As a result, we establish the discrete nonlinear evolution equation by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-09 Alphonse Houwe , Souleymanou Abbagari , Lanre Akinyemi , Serge Yamigno Doka , Kofane Timoleon Crepin

This paper gives a pedagogic review of the envelope formalism for excitation of zonal flows by nonlinear interactions of plasma drift waves or Rossby waves, described equivalently by the Hasegawa-Mima (HM) equation or the quasigeostrophic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 R. L. Dewar , R. F. Abdullatif

The temporal instability of stably stratified flow was investigated by analyzing the Taylor-Goldstein equation theoretically. According to this analysis, the stable stratification $N^2\geq0$ has a destabilization mechanism, and the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-18 Liang Sun

We study numerically the integrable turbulence in the framework of the focusing one-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation using a new method -- the "growing of turbulence". We add to the equation a weak controlled pumping term and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-29 D. S. Agafontsev , V. E. Zakharov

In this paper we present an experimental study of the long surface wave instability that can develop when a granular material flows down a rough inclined plane. The threshold and the dispersion relation of the instability are precisely…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Forterre , O. Pouliquen

We consider front solutions of the Swift-Hohenberg equation $\partial_t u= -(1+\partial_x^2)^2 u +\epsilon ^2 u -u^3$. These are traveling waves which leave in their wake a periodic pattern in the laboratory frame. Using renormalization…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-07 Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Guido Schneider

Conservation equations for the mass, linear momentum and energy densities of solitons propagating in finite, infinite and periodic, nonlinear, planar waveguides and governed by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation are derived. These…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-01-18 Juan I. Ramos , Francisco R. Villatoro

It is known that a finite-size homogeneous granular fluid develops an hydrodynamic-like instability when dissipation crosses a threshold value. This instability is analyzed in terms of modified hydrodynamic equations: first, a source term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Soto , M. Mareschal , M. Malek Mansour

The magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability has been shown to play a key role in many astrophysical systems. The equation for the growth rate of this instability in the incompressible limit, and the most-unstable mode that can be derived from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-27 Andrew Hillier

The Discrete Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation with a random potential in one dimension is studied as a dynamical system. It is characterized by the length, the strength of the random potential and by the field density that determines the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 Arkady Pikovsky , Shmuel Fishman

We investigate the asymmetric integrable turbulence and rogue waves (RWs) emerging from the modulation instability (MI) of plane waves for the DNLS equation. The \(n\)-th moments and ensemble-averaged kinetic and potential energy exhibit…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-10-17 Ming Zhong , Weifang Weng , Zhenya Yan

Although internal gravity waves are generally recognized as an important mechanism to distribute energy through the atmosphere, their dynamics near the instability is only partially understood to date. Many types of instabilities, notably…

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We measure evolution of spectra, spatial correlation functions and probability density functions (PDFs) of waves appearance for a set of one-dimensional NLS-like equations of focusing type, namely for the classical integrable Nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-20 Dmitry Agafontsev , Vladimir Zakharov

We study analytically the orbital stability of the standing waves with a peak-Gausson profile for a nonlinear logarithmic Schr\"odinger equation with $\delta$-interaction (attractive and repulsive). A major difficulty is to compute the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Jaime Angulo Pava , Nataliia Goloshchapova

A nonlinear Schroedinger model in a square well and managed nonlinearity is shown to possess nonlinear states as continuous extensions of the linear levels. The solutions are remarkably stable up to a threshold amplitude where a soliton is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-29 J. Leon

Wave shoaling of water waves over mild bottom slopes is well described by linearized theories. However, the analytical treatment of nonlinear wave shoaling subject to rapidly varying bottoms has proven to be elusive in the past decades. As…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-25 Saulo Mendes

We study experimentally, in a large-scale basin, the propagation of unidirectional deep water gravity waves stochastically modulated in phase. We observe the emergence of nonlinear localized structures that evolve on a stochastic wave…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-10-19 A Cazaubiel , G. Michel , S Lepot , B Semin , S Aumaître , M Berhanu , Félicien Bonnefoy , Eric Falcon

We provide a rigorous justification of various kinetic regimes exhibited by the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with an additive stochastic forcing and a viscous dissipation. The importance of such damped-driven models stems from their…

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