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In this work, we present a numerical study of the wave stability of steady solitary waves over a localised topographic obstacle through the full Euler equations. There are two branches of the solutions: one from the perturbed uniform flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-08 Marcelo V. Flamarion , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr

We consider the Cauchy problem for wave equations with unbounded damping coefficients in the whole space. For a general class of unbounded damping coefficients, we derive uniform total energy decay estimates together with a unique existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Ryo Ikehata , Hiroshi Takeda

Consider a scalar conservation law with discontinuous flux \begin{equation*}\tag{1} \quad u_{t}+f(x,u)_{x}=0, \qquad f(x,u)= \begin{cases} f_l(u)\ &\text{if}\ x<0,\\ f_r(u)\ & \text{if} \ x>0, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $u=u(x,t)$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Fabio Ancona , Maria Teresa Chiri

In the present paper, the reducibility is derived for the wave equations with finitely smooth and time-quasi-periodic potential subjects to periodic boundary conditions. More exactly, the linear wave equation $u_{tt}-u_{xx}+Mu+\varepsilon…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Jing Li , Yingte Sun , Bing Xie

We prove existence and conditional energetic stability of solitary-wave solutions for the two classes of pseudodifferential equations $ u_t+\left(f(u)\right)_x-\left(L u\right)_x=0 $ and $ u_t+\left(f(u)\right)_x+\left(L u\right)_t=0, $…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Mathias Nikolai Arnesen

Let a 1-d system of hyperbolic conservation laws, with two unknowns, be endowed with a convex entropy. We consider the family of small $BV$ functions which are global solutions of this equation. For any small $BV$ initial data, such global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Geng Chen , Sam G. Krupa , Alexis F. Vasseur

The paper is concerned with a scalar conservation law with discontinuous gradient-dependent flux. Namely, the flux is described by two different functions $f(u)$ or $g(u)$, when the gradient $u_x$ of the solution is positive or negative,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Debora Amadori , Alberto Bressan , Wen Shen

We study the following problem: Given initial data on a compact Cauchy horizon, does there exist a unique solution to wave equations on the globally hyperbolic region? Our main results apply to any spacetime satisfying the null energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Oliver Lindblad Petersen

We prove local existence and uniqueness of the solution $(u,u_t)\in C^0([0,T];H^1\times L^2(\mathbb{R}^N))$ of the semilinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u=u_t|u_t|^{p-1}$.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-06-18 H. Faour , A. Z. Fino , M. Jazar

In this paper we establish the nonlinear stability of solitary traveling-wave solutions for the Kawahara-KdV equation $$u_t+uu_x+u_{xxx}-\gamma_1 u_{xxxxx}=0,$$ and the modified Kawahara-KdV equation $$u_t+3u^2u_x+u_{xxx}-\gamma_2…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-13 F. Natali

We shall be concerned with the Cauchy problem for quasilinear systems in three space dimensions of the form \label{i.1} \partial^2_tu^I-c^2_I\Delta u^I = C^{IJK}_{abc}\partial_c u^J\partial_a\partial_b u^K + B^{IJK}_{ab}\partial_a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christopher D. Sogge

We study the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous, non-degenerate fluxes. Locally, the fluxes are piecewise smooth across interfaces described by a Heaviside-type discontinuity, with left and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Darko Mitrovic

We consider a stabilized finite element method based on a spacetime formulation, where the equations are solved on a global (unstructured) spacetime mesh. A unique continuation problem for the wave equation is considered, where data is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Erik Burman , Ali Feizmohammadi , Arnaud Munch , Lauri Oksanen

In this paper we consider the Cauchy problem for the semilinear damped wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u + u_t = h(u);\qquad u(0;x) = f(x); \quad u_t(0;x) = g(x);$ where $h(s) = |s|^{1+2/n}\mu(|s|)$. Here n is the space dimension and $\mu$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Marcelo Rempel Ebert , Giovanni Girardi , Michael Reissig

We consider the linear wave equation $V(x) u_{tt}(x, t) - u_{xx}(x, t) = 0$ on $[0, \infty)\times[0, \infty)$ with initial conditions and a nonlinear Neumann boundary condition $u_x(0, t) = (f(u_t(0,t)))_t$ at $x=0$. This problem is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Sebastian Ohrem , Wolfgang Reichel , Roland Schnaubelt

We show how the symmetry-based method can be used to obtain new non-invertible equivalence mappings of linear wave equations with variable wave speeds $c(x,t)$ to linear wave equations with different variable wave speeds. Moreover, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Rafael de la Rosa , George W. Bluman

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

In this paper, we study the wave equation on infinite graphs. On one hand, in contrast to the wave equation on manifolds, we construct an example for the non-uniqueness for the Cauchy problem of the wave equation on graphs. On the other…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Fengwen Han , Bobo Hua

The nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-c(u)(c(u)u_x)_x=0$ determines a flow of conservative solutions taking values in the space $H^1(\mathbb{R})$. However, this flow is not continuous w.r.t. the natural $H^1$ distance. Aim of this paper is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Alberto Bressan , Geng Chen

The well-posedness of Cauchy problem of 3D compressible Euler equations is studied. By using Smith-Tataru's approach \cite{ST}, we prove the local existence, uniqueness and stability of solutions for Cauchy problem of 3D compressible Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Huali Zhang , Lars Andersson