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We investigate a higher order nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with linear damping and weak viscosity, recently proposed as a model for deep water waves exhibiting frequency downshifting. Through analysis and numerical simulations, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-10-17 A. Calini , C. L. Ellisor , C. M. Schober , E. Smith

In this paper we establish a complete local theory for the energy-critical nonlinear wave equation (NLW) in high dimensions ${\mathbb R} \times {\mathbb R}^d$ with $d \geq 6$. We prove the stability of solutions under the weak condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Aynur Bulut , Magdalena Czubak , Dong Li , Nataša Pavlović , Xiaoyi Zhang

Strongly nonlinear models of internal wave propagation for incompressible stratified Euler fluids are investigated numerically and analytically to determine the evolution of a class of initial conditions of interest in laboratory…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-28 Shengqian Chen

Motivated by recent work on instabilities in expanding domains in reaction-diffusion settings, we propose an analog of such mechanisms in energy-conserving wave equations. In particular, we consider a nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation in a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 K. J. H. Law , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , A. R. Bishop

Finite-amplitude hydromagnetic Rossby waves in the magnetostrophic regime are studied. We consider the slow mode, which travels in the opposite direction to the hydrodynamic or fast mode, in the presence of a toroidal magnetic field and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-14 K. Hori , S. M. Tobias , C. A. Jones

We study the azimuthal modulational instability of vortices with different topological charges, in the focusing two-dimensional nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (NLS) equation. The method of studying the stability relies on freezing the radial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-05-11 R. M. Caplan , Q. E. Hoq , R. Carretero-González , P. G. Kevrekidis

A large class of multidimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equations admit localized nonradial standing wave solutions that carry nonzero intrinsic angular momentum. Here we provide evidence that certain of these spinning excitations are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert L. Pego , Henry A. Warchall

The nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation is known as a universal equation describing the evolution of the envelopes of slowly modulated spatially and temporarily oscillating wave packet in various dispersive systems. In this paper, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Huimin Liu , Yurui Lu , Xueke Pu

The nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is widely used as an approximate model for the evolution in time of the water wave envelope. In the context of simulating ocean waves, initial conditions are typically generated from a measured power…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Agissilaos G. Athanassoulis , Irene Kyza

In the study of plasma, particularly in applications involving strong laser-plasma interactions, the propagation of a strong electromagnetic wave induces relativistic velocities in the electron flow. Given such conditions, the wave…

The aim of this work is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the extension theory of symmetric operators in the investigation of the stability of standing waves for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with two types of non-linearities…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Jaime Angulo Pava , Nataliia Goloshchapova

A spatially localized initial condition for an energy-conserving wave equation with periodic coefficients disperses (spatially spreads) and decays in amplitude as time advances. This dispersion is associated with the continuous spectrum of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Vincent Duchêne , Iva Vukićević , Michael I. Weinstein

A new approximation for evolution described by Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation (NLS) with periodic potential is presented. It relies on restricting dynamics to one band of the bandgap spectrum, and taking into account only one, dominating…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Matuszewski

We study the large-time behavior of global energy class ($H^1$) solutions of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a general localized potential term and a defocusing nonlinear term. By using a new type of interaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Avy Soffer , Gavin Stewart

We study the nonlinear propagation of electrostatic wave packets in a collisional plasma composed of strongly coupled ions and relativistically degenerate electrons. The equilibrium of ions is maintained by an effective temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 A. P. Misra , P. K. Shukla

In this paper, we propose a numerical framework to study the shapes, dynamics and the stabilities of the self-localized solutions of the nonlinear wave blocking problem. With this motivation, we use the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-16 Cihan Bayindir

Stationary gravity waves, such as mountain lee waves, are effectively described by Grimshaw's dissipative modulation equations even in high altitudes where they become nonlinear due to their large amplitudes. In this theoretical study, a…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Mark Schlutow

A two-dimensional generalized cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with complex coefficients for the group dispersion and nonlinear terms is used to investigate the evolution of a finite-amplitude localized initial perturbation. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dian Zhao , M. Y. Yu

We study here the nonlinear Schrodinger Equation (NLS) as the first term in a sequence of approximations for an electromagnetic (EM) wave propagating according to the nonlinear Maxwell equations (NLM). The dielectric medium is assumed to be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anatoli Babin , Alexander Figotin

In a recent work we studied the first nonlinear stage of modulation instability (NLSMI) of x-periodic anomalous (rogue, freak, extreme) waves (AWs) of physically relevant multidimensional (generalizations of the focusing) nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-27 Francesco Coppini , Paolo Maria Santini
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