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We show that periodic traveling waves with sufficiently small amplitudes of the Whitham equation, which incorporates the dispersion relation of surface water waves and the nonlinearity of the shallow water equations,are spectrally unstable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

In a companion paper, we established nonlinear stability with detailed diffusive rates of decay of spectrally stable periodic traveling-wave solutions of reaction diffusion systems under small perturbations consisting of a nonlocalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Mathew Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of surface waves on shallow water that combines the unidirectional linear dispersion relation of the Euler equations with a weakly nonlinear approximation based on the KdV equation. We show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 John D. Carter , Marc Francius , Christian Kharif , Henrik Kalisch , Malek Abid

In nonlinear dispersive evolution equations, the competing effects of nonlinearity and dispersion make a number of interesting phenomena possible. In the current work, the focus is on the numerical approximation of traveling-wave solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Henrik Kalisch , Daulet Moldabayev , Olivier Verdier

In this work, we are concerned with a nonlinear wave equation with variable exponents. A distributive delay is imposed into the damping term with variable exponents nonlinearity. Firstly, we show that the global nonexistence time can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Mohammad Kafini

The Whitham equation was proposed as an alternate model equation for the simplified description of uni-directional wave motion at the surface of an inviscid fluid. As the Whitham equation incorporates the full linear dispersion relation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Daulet Moldabayev , Henrik Kalisch , Denys Dutykh

In this short note, we derive a system of two nonlocal equations for the water-wave problem following the work of [AFM06]. Specifically, we consider a fluid with a one-dimensional free surface for an irrotational fluid both with, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-04 KL Oliveras

We solve the Vlasov equation for the longitudinal distribution function and find stationary wave patterns when the distribution in the energy error is Maxwellian. In the long wavelength limit a stability criterion for linear waves has been…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephan I. Tzenov

The aim of this paper is to study, via theoretical analysis and numerical simulations, the dynamics of Whitham and related equations. In particular we establish rigorous bounds between solutions of the Whitham and KdV equations and provide…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-28 C. Klein , F. Linares , D. Pilod , J. -C. Saut

In this paper, we study the global conservative weak solutions for a class of nonlinear dispersive wave equations after wave breaking. We first transform the equations into an equivalent semi-linear system by introducing new variables. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Yonghui Zhou , Shuguan Ji

We consider an inverse problem governed by the Westervelt equation with linear diffusivity and quadratic-type nonlinearity. The objective of this problem is to recover all the coefficients of this nonlinear partial differential equation. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Sebastian Acosta , Benjamin Palacios

We study travelling wave solutions of a generalised Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation with a non-local diffusion term and a concave-convex flux. This model equation arises in the analysis of a shallow water flow by performing formal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-05 F. Achleitner , C. M. Cuesta , X. Diez-Izagirre

In this paper we discuss some properties of linear fractional dispersive waves. In particular, we compare the dispersion relations emerging from the kinematic wave equation and from the linearised Korteweg - de Vries equation with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 Ivano Colombaro , Andrea Giusti , Francesco Mainardi

The behavior of solutions of the finite-genus Whitham equations for the weak dispersion limit of the defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation is investigated analytically and numerically for piecewise-constant initial data. In particular,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 Gino Biondini , Yuji Kodama

We study the local well-posedness of a periodic nonlinear equation for surface waves of moderate amplitude in shallow water. We use an approach due to Kato which is based on semigroup theory for quasi-linear equations. We also show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Nilay Duruk Mutlubas

This article is devoted to the proof of the well-posedness of a model describing waves propagating in shallow water in horizontal dimension $d=2$ and in the presence of a fixed partially immersed object. We first show that this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-28 David Lannes , Tatsuo Iguchi

The Ostrovsky--Hunter equation governs evolution of shallow water waves on a rotating fluid in the limit of small high-frequency dispersion. Sufficient conditions for the wave breaking in the Ostrovsky--Hunter equation are found both on an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-15 Yue Liu , Dmitry Pelinovsky , Anton Sakovich

We present the full classification of wave patterns evolving from an initial step-like discontinuity for arbitrary choice of boundary conditions at the discontinuity location in the DNLS equation theory. In this non-convex dispersive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-01-22 A. M. Kamchatnov

We theoretically describe the quasi one-dimensional transverse spreading of a light pulse propagating in a nonlinear optical material in the presence of a uniform background light intensity. For short propagation distances the pulse can be…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-30 M. Isoard , A. M. Kamchatnov , N. Pavloff

In this paper, we consider the Kakutani-Matsuuchi model which describes the surface elevation of the water-waves under the effect of viscosity. We show wave breaking for the Kakutani-Matsuuchi model, namely, the solution remains bounded but…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Shaojie Yang , Jianmin Zhao