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Spiral waves are striking self-organized coherent structures that organize spatio-temporal dynamics in dissipative, spatially extended systems. In this paper, we provide a conceptual approach to various properties of spiral waves. Rather…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-09 Björn Sandstede , Arnd Scheel

Motivated by the importance and universal character of phase singularities which are clarified recently, we study the local structure of equi-phase loci near the dislocation locus of complex valued planar and spatial waves, from the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Jiro Adachi , Go-o Ishikawa

Shockwaves are violent nonlinear distortions of wave motion which have been reported in fluid waves and electromagnetic waves, while here we reveal that a shockwave can occur even in the quantum wave function of a single particle.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Marinko Jablan

We investigate cooperative exclusion, in which the particle velocity can be an increasing function of the density. Within a hydrodynamic theory, an initial density upsteps and downsteps can evolve into: (a) shock waves, (b) continuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-10 Alan Gabel , S. Redner

A new class of solitary waves arises in the solution of nonlinear wave equations with constant impedance and no dispersive terms. They depend on a balance between nonlinearity and a dispersion-like effect due to spatial variation in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-12-17 David I. Ketcheson , Manuel Quezada de Luna

Starting from a stochastic Zakharov-Kuznetsov (ZK) equation on a lattice, the previous work [ST21] by the last two authors gave a derivation of the homogeneous 3-wave kinetic equation at the kinetic limit under very general assumptions: the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Amirali Hannani , Matthew Rosenzweig , Gigliola Staffilani , Minh-Binh Tran

We study nonlinear wave phenomena in self-gravitating fluid systems, with a particular emphasis on applications to molecular clouds. This paper presents analytical results for one spatial dimension. We show that a large class of physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Fred C. Adams , Marco Fatuzzo , Richard Watkins

In this work we derive evolution equations for the nonlinear behavior of a coasting beam under the influence of a resonator impedance. Using a renormalization group approach we find a set of coupled nonlinear equations for the beam density…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Tzenov , P. L. Colestock

We consider several systems of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws describing the dynamics of nonlinear waves in presence of phase transition phenomena. These models admit under-compressive shock waves which are not uniquely determined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Philippe G. LeFloch , Majid Mohammadian

This paper develops the basic sets of equations which lead to the conservation laws describing collisionless plasma shock waves. We discuss the evolution of shock waves by wave steepening, derive the Rankine-Hugoniot conditions for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-16 R. A. Treumann , C. H. Jaroschek

We define compressive and rarefactive waves and give the differential equations describing smooth wave steepening for the compressible Euler equations with a varying entropy profile and general pressure laws. Using these differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Geng Chen

Wave turbulence is the study of the long-time statistical behaviour of equations describing a set of weakly non-linear interacting waves. Such a theory, which has a natural asymptotic closure, allows us to probe the nature of turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-24 Sebastien Galtier

Using weak wave turbulence theory analysis, we distinguish three main regimes for 2D stratified fluids in the dimensionless parameter space defined by the Froude number and the Reynolds number: discrete wave turbulence, weak wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-30 Vincent Labarre , Michal Shavit

We introduce and systematically investigate the generation of dispersive shock waves, which arise naturally in physical settings such as optical waveguide arrays and superfluids confined within optical lattices. The underlying physically…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-13 Su Yang , Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We examine the structure of the distribution of single particle displacements (van-Hove function) in a broad class of materials close to glass and jamming transitions. In a wide time window comprising structural relaxation, van-Hove…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pinaki Chaudhuri , Ludovic Berthier , Walter Kob

n a number of papers it was shown that there are one-dimensional systems such that they contain solutions with, so called, overcompressive singular shock waves besides the usual elementary waves (shock and rarefaction ones as well as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marko Nedeljkov

Wave-breaking is studied analytically first and the results are compared with accurate numerical simulations of 3D wave-breaking. We focus on the time dependence of various quantities becoming singular at the onset of breaking. The power…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Pomeau , M. Le Berre , P. Guyenne , S. Grilli

Nonlinear waves in defocusing media are investigated in the framework of the hydrodynamic description of light as a photon fluid. The observations are interpreted in terms of an emergent curved spacetime generated by the waves themselves,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-07 Francesco Marino , Calum Maitland , David Vocke , Antonello Ortolan , Daniele Faccio

Topological transitions in electronic band structures, resulting in van Hove singularities in the density of states, can considerably affect various types of orderings in quantum materials. Regular topological transitions (of neck formation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-25 Alkistis Zervou , Dmitriy V. Efremov , Joseph J. Betouras

We consider linear instability of solitary waves of several classes of dispersive long wave models. They include generalizations of KDV, BBM, regularized Boussinesq equations, with general dispersive operators and nonlinear terms. We obtain…

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