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Being considered as a prototype for description of oceanic rogue waves (RWs), the Peregrine breather solution of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) has been recently observed and intensely investigated experimentally in particular…

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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

One of the hallmarks of active matter is its rich nonlinear dynamics and instabilities. Recent numerical simulations of phototactic algae showed that a thin jet of swimmers, obtained from hydrodynamic focusing inside a Poiseuille flow, was…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-19 Eric Lauga , Francois Nadal

Rogue waves in (2+1)-dimensional three-wave resonant interactions are studied. General rogue waves arising from a constant background, from a lump-soliton background and from a dark-soliton background have been derived, and their dynamics…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2022-03-02 Bo Yang , Jianke Yang

The notion of instability of a turbulent flow is introduced in the case of a von K\'arm\'an flow thanks to the monitoring of the spatio-temporal spectrum of the velocity fluctuations, combined with projection onto suitable Beltrami modes.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-14 Eric Herbert , Pierre-Philippe Cortet , François Daviaud , Bérengère Dubrulle

Solitons and breathers are nonlinear modes that exist in a wide range of physical systems. They are fundamental solutions of a number of nonlinear wave evolution equations, including the uni-directional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

The modulation instability (MI) is responsible for the disintegration of a regular nonlinear wave train and can lead to strong localizations in a from of rogue waves. This mechanism has been studied in a variety of nonlinear dispersive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-05-31 Yuchen He , Jinghua Wang , Bertrand Kibler , Amin Chabchoub

In the present work, a nonlocal nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) model is studied by means of a recent technique that identifies solutions of partial differential equations, by considering them as fixed points in {\it space-time}. This…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-03-25 C. B. Ward , P. G. Kevrekidis , T. P. Horikis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

Nonlinear light propagation in a single-mode micron-size waveguide made of semiconducting excitonic material has been theoretically studied in terms of exciton-polaritons by using an analysis based on macroscopic fields. When a light pulse…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-24 Oleksii A. Smyrnov , Fabio Biancalana , Stefan Malzer

We explore rogue wave formation in multimode silicon nitride (Si$_3$N$_4$) waveguides with multimode nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation-based simulations. Pure fundamental-mode excitation produces smooth propagation without extreme events,…

We prove nonlinear modulational instability for both periodic and localized perturbations of periodic traveling waves for several dispersive PDEs, including the KDV type equations (e.g. the Whitham equation, the generalized KDV equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Jiayin Jin , Shasha Liao , Zhiwu Lin

The observation of a wave group persisting for more than 200 periods in the direct numerical simulation of nonlinear unidirectional irregular water waves in deep water is discussed. The simulation conditions are characterized by parameters…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-31 Alexey Slunyaev

Wave resonance is the fundamental mechanism of non-linear instabilities of fluid flows, and affects the long-time evolution of fluid motions and other physical problems described by non-linear differential equations. Some significant…

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We present a numerical study of the evolution dynamics of ``optical rogue waves'', statistically-rare extreme red-shifted soliton pulses arising from supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber [D. R. Solli et al. Nature Vol. 450,…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 John. M. Dudley , Goery Genty , Benjamin J. Eggleton

A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with repulsive (defocusing) nonlinearity is considered. As an example, a system with a spatially varying coefficient of the nonlinear term is studied. The nonlinearity is chosen to be repelling except on a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-11-28 R. K. Jackson , R. Marangell , H. Susanto

In this work, we study a space-time modulated electro-mechanical system, consisting of an array of coupled cantilevers with their on-site potential provided by electromagnets driven by AC currents. Model equations are derived, and the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-01 Masayuki Kimura , Juan F. R. Archilla , Yusuke Doi , Víctor J. Sánchez-Morcillo

We examine the steady state and dynamic behaviour of an optical resonator comprised of two interlinked fibre loops sharing a common pump. A coupled Ikeda map models with great accuracy the field evolution within and exchange between both…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-11 Calum Maitland , Matteo Conforti , Arnaud Mussot , Fabio Biancalana

The nonlinear waves excited by the movement of a charged body in the dusty plasma medium are studied. A charged body moving through a dusty plasma medium can generate diverse nonlinear waves, such as precursors and pinned solitons. These…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Swathi S Krishna , S. K. Mishra , S. Jaiswal

We note that the non-orthogonality of states and their coincidence at the degeneracy point are both admitted by nonlinear Hermitian systems and linear non-Hermitian systems. These striking characteristics motivate us to re-investigate the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-06-25 Yu-Hao Wang , Yan-Hong Qin , Jie Liu , Li-Chen Zhao

Nonlinear self-modulation of the dust acoustic waves is studied, in the presence of non-thermal (non-Maxwellian) ion and electron populations. By employing a multiple scale technique, a nonlinear Schrodinger-type equation (NLSE) is derived…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Ioannis Kourakis , P. K. Shukla