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Wave localization induced by spatial disorder is ubiquitous in physics. Here, we study the temporal analog of such phenomenon on water waves. Our time disordered media consists in a collection of temporal interfaces achieved through…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-16 Benjamin Apffel , Sander Wildeman , Antonin Eddi , Emmanuel Fort

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

We consider the problem of existence and stability of solitary traveling waves for the one dimensional discrete non linear Schroedinger equation (DNLS) with cubic nonlinearity, near the continuous limit.We construct a family of solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Joackim Bernier , Erwan Faou

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Chabchoub , N. Hoffmann , H. Branger , C. Kharif , N. Akhmediev

Using similarity transformations we construct explicit nontrivial solutions of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with potentials and nonlinearities depending on time and on the spatial coordinates. We present the general theory and use it…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Juan Belmonte-Beitia , Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Vadym Vekslerchik , Vladimir V. Konotop

A nonlinear evolution equation for wave packet surface gravity waves with variation in topography is revisited in this article. The equation is modeled by a spatial inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation with varying…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-06-07 N. Karjanto , J. Tan

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 construct multiple families of solitary standing waves of the discrete cubically nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (DNLS) in dimensions $d=1,2$ and $3$. These states are obtained via a bifurcation analysis about the continuum (NLS)…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-08-04 Michael Jenkinson , Michael I. Weinstein

We study the interaction of (slowly modulated) high frequency waves for multi-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equations with gauge invariant power-law nonlinearities and non-local perturbations. The model includes the Davey--Stewartson…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Rémi Carles , Eric Dumas , Christof Sparber

Rogue waves appearing on deep water or in optical fibres are often modelled by certain breather solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (fNLS) equation which are referred to as solitons on finite background (SFBs). A more general…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-23 Marco Bertola , Gennady El , Alexander Tovbis

This thesis is concerned with dynamics of conservative nonlinear waves on bounded domains. In general, there are two scenarios of evolution. Either the solution behaves in an oscillatory, quasiperiodic manner or the nonlinear effects cause…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-04 Maciej Maliborski

The combination of fast propagation speeds and highly localized nature has hindered the direct observation of the evolution of shock waves at the molecular scale. To address this limitation, an experimental system is designed by tuning a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-07 Jian Li , Chockalingam Senthilnathan , Tal Cohen

In this paper we study in detail the localized wave functions defined in Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 76}, 1613 (1994), in connection with the scarring effect of unstable periodic orbits in highly chaotic Hamiltonian system. These functions appear…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. A. Wisniacki , F. Borondo , E. Vergini , R. M. Benito

In the framework of the focusing Nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation we study numerically the nonlinear stage of the modulation instability (MI) of the condensate. As expected, the development of the MI leads to formation of "integrable…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-09-15 D. S. Agafontsev , V. E. Zakharov

Recent studies have demonstrated that defocusing cubic nonlinearity with local strength growing from the center to the periphery faster than $r^{D}$, in space of dimension $D$ with radial coordinate $r$, supports a vast variety of robust…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-26 Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

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

Effects of nonlinear dynamics of solitary waves and wave modulations within the modular (also known as quadratically cubic) Korteweg - de Vries equation are studied analytically and numerically. Large wave events can occur in the course of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-04-17 Alexey Slunyaev , Anna Kokorina , Efim Pelinovsky

In the present work we consider the subject of dark fractional solitary waves in the realm of generalized (fractional) forms of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation. While earlier studies have examined such states in the realm of real…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-21 Almudena P. Márquez , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

In this paper, general higher-order rogue wave solutions of the parity-time ($\mathcal {P}\mathcal {T}$) symmetric scalar and coupled nonlocal nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations (NLSEs) are calculated theoretically via a Darboux…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Xiu-Bin Wang , Shou-Fu Tian

The generation and evolution of nonlinear waves in microwave amplifiers such as travelling wave tubes, free electron lasers and klystrons have been studied. The analysis is based on the hydrodynamic and field equations for the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan I. Tzenov