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Density-wave fronts in a vibrofluidized wet granular layer undergoing a gas-liquid-like transition are investigated experimentally. The threshold of the instability is governed by the amplitude of the vertical vibrations. Fronts, which are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-09 Andreas Zippelius , Kai Huang

The present paper is concerned with the existence of solitary wave solutions of Rosenau-type equations. By using two standard theories, Normal Form Theory and Concentration-Compactness Theory, some results of existence of solitary waves of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-12 A. Durán , G. M. Muslu

The study of the Euler equations in flows with constant vorticity has piqued the curiosity of a considerable number of researchers over the years. Much research has been conducted on this subject under the assumption of steady flow. In this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-26 Eduardo M. Castro , Marcelo V. Flamarion , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr

We study the propagation of solitary waves in a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) lattice with small random heterogeneity in the linear spring force. Perturbed by the random environment, solitary waves lose energy through a radiative tail,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Hermen Jan Hupkes , Joshua A. McGinnis , Rik W. S. Westdorp , J. Douglas Wright

The emission of gravitational waves from a system of massive objects interacting on elliptical, hyperbolic and parabolic orbits is studied in the quadrupole approximation. Analytical expressions are then derived for the gravitational wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Salvatore Capozziello , Mariafelicia De Laurentis

Spirals shocks have been widely studied in the context of galactic dynamics and protostellar discs. They may however also play an important role in some classes of close binary stars, and more particularly in cataclysmic variables. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henri M. J. Boffin

During gravitational collapse of dust in spherical symmetry, matter particles may collide forming shell crossing surfaces (SCS) on which the Einstein equations become indeterministic. We show that there is a unique evolution beyond SCS such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-23 Viqar Husain , Hassan Mehmood

Granular simulations are used to probe the particle scale dynamics at short, intermediate, and long time scales for gravity driven, dense granular flows down an inclined plane. On approach to the angle of repose, where motion ceases, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 L. E. Silbert

This study numerically investigates the nonlinear interaction of head-on solitary waves in a granular chain (a nonintegrable system) and compares the simulation results with the theoretical results in fluid (an integrable system). Three…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-31 Shutian Zhang , Shikun Liu , Tengfei Jiao , Min Sun , Decai Huang

A detailed numerical study of the scattering of solitary waves by a barrier, in a granular media with Hertzian contact, shows the existence of secondary multipulse structures generated at the interface of two "sonic vacua", which have a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Lautaro Vergara

Driven granular media constitute model systems in out-of-equilibrium statistical physics. By assimilating the motions of granular particles to those of atoms, by analogy, one can obtain macroscopic equivalent of phase transitions. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-29 Michael Berhanu , Simon Merminod , Gustavo Castillo , Eric Falcon

Gravitational waves (GWs) generated by a first-order phase transition at the electroweak scale are detectable by future space-based detectors like LISA. The lifetime of the resulting shock waves plays an important role in determining the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-14 Jani Dahl , Mark Hindmarsh , Kari Rummukainen , David Weir

In this paper we establish a rigorous spectral stability analysis for solitary waves associated to a generalized fractional Benjamin-Bona-Mahony type equation. Besides the well known smooth and positive solitary wave with large wave speed,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Goksu Oruc , Fábio Natali , Handan Borluk , Gulcin M. Muslu

A spherical blast wave with relativistic velocity can be described by a similarity solution, that is used for theoretical models of gamma-ray bursts. We consider the linear stability of such a relativistic blast wave propagating into a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jun Ogura , Yasufumi Kojima

The problem of tsunami wave run-up on a beach is discussed in the framework of the rigorous solutions of the nonlinear shallow-water theory. We present an analysis of the run-up characteristics for various shapes of the incoming symmetrical…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ira Didenkulova , Efim Pelinovsky , Tarmo Soomere

Solitary waves of relativistic invariant nonlinear wave equation with symmetry group U(1) are considered. We prove that the energy-momentum relation for spherically symmetric solitary waves coincides with the Einstein energy-momentum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. V. Dudnikova , A. I. Komech , H. Spohn

Let $X$ be a manifold with boundary, endowed with a metric with conic singularities at the boundary components of $X$. Let $u$ be a solution to the wave equation on $\mathbb{R} \times X$. When a singularity of $u$ strikes a cone point of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard B. Melrose , Jared Wunsch

This study aims to explore the complex interactions between an internal solitary wave and an external force using the Benjamin-Ono equation as the theoretical framework. The investigation encompasses both asymptotic and numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-04 Marcelo V. Flamarion , Efim Pelinovsky

The single and collective particle interaction with spatially localized wavepackets is analytically and numerically studied. The role of the finite spatial width of the wavepacket on the momentum and energy variation of particles passing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Theodoros Bournelis , Yannis Kominis

We study the formation and dynamics of shock waves initiated by a repulsive potential in a superfluid unitary Fermi gas by using the order-parameter equation. In the theoretical framework, the regularization process of shock waves mediated…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-03 Wen Wen , Tiankun Shui , Yafei Shan , Changping Zhu