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Evidence is presented of universal behavior in modulationally unstable media. An ensemble of nonlinear evolution equations, including three partial differential equations, an integro-differential equation, a nonlocal system and a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-10-17 Gino Biondini , Sitai Li , Dionyssis Mantzavinos , Stefano Trillo

In this paper, we use a traveling wave reduction or a so-called spatial approximation to comprehensively investigate periodic and solitary wave solutions of the modified Benjamin, Bona & Mahony equation (BBM) to include both dissipative and…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Stefan C. Mancas , Harihar Khanal , Shardad G. Sajjadi

We investigate the stability and long-term behavior of spatially periodic plane waves in the complex Klein-Gordon equation under localized perturbations. Such perturbations render the wave neither localized nor periodic, placing its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Emile Bukieda , Louis Garénaux , Björn de Rijk

In this paper, we investigate the existence and spectral stability of periodic traveling wave solutions for the regularized Camassa-Holm equation. To establish the existence of periodic waves, we employ tools from bifurcation theory to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Fabio Natali

We consider instability and localized patterns arising from long wave-short wave (LWSW) resonance in the non-integrable regime numerically. We study the stability and instability of elliptic-function periodic waves with respect to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-01-23 Wen-Rong Sun , Boris A. Malomed , Jin-Hua Li

In the present study we prove rigorously that in the long-wave limit, the unidirectional solutions of a class of nonlocal wave equations to which the improved Boussinesq equation belongs are well approximated by the solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-04 H. A. Erbay , S. Erbay , A. Erkip

In this paper, we study the nonlinear wave modulation of arbitrary amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions of the Camassa-Holm (CH) equation. Slow modulations of wave trains is often described through Whitham's theory of modulations,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Mathew A. Johnson , Jeffrey Oregero

The modulational instability of broadband optical pulses in a four-state atomic system is investigated. In particular, starting from a recently derived generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, a wave-kinetic equation is derived. A…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , R. Bingham , J. T. Mendonca

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

In this paper we present an experimental study of the long surface wave instability that can develop when a granular material flows down a rough inclined plane. The threshold and the dispersion relation of the instability are precisely…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Forterre , O. Pouliquen

In this note, we report on recent findings concerning the spectral and nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of hyperbolic-parabolic systems of balance laws, as applied to the St. Venant equations of shallow water flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-06 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

This study presents a detailed investigation of the modulational stability of interfacial wave packets in a two-layer inviscid incompressible fluid with finite layer thicknesses and interfacial surface tension. The stability analysis is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-20 Olga Avramenko , Volodymyr Naradovyi

We consider a two-dimensional, incompressible, inviscid fluid with variable density, subject to the action of gravity. Assuming a stable equilibrium density profile, we adopt the so-called Boussinesq approximation, which neglects density…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 R. Bianchini , A. Maspero , S. Pasquali

We investigate the Benjamin-Feir (or modulational) instability of Stokes waves, i.e., small-amplitude, one-dimensional periodic gravity waves of permanent form and constant velocity, in water of finite and infinite depth. We develop a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-22 Ryan Creedon , Bernard Deconinck

Symmetric instability has broad applications in geophysical and planetary fluid dynamics. It plays a crucial role in the formation of mesoscale rainbands at mid-latitudes on Earth, instability in the ocean's mixed layer, and slantwise…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-11 Yaoxuan Zeng , Malte F. Jansen

This paper is concerned with the stability of periodic wave trains in a generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinski (gKS) equation. This equation is useful to describe the weak instability of low frequency perturbations for thin film flows down an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-09 Pascal Noble , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

This paper investigates the stability of interfacial long waves in two-layer plane Couette flow using a nonlinear, nonlocal asymptotic model derived from the Navier-Stokes equations and valid for thin upper layers. Nonlocality enters…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-17 Xingyu Wang , Pierre Germain , Demetrios T. Papageorgiou

This paper fully answers a long standing open question concerning the stability/instability of pure gravity periodic traveling water waves -- called Stokes waves -- at the critical Whitham-Benjamin depth $ \mathtt{h}_{\scriptscriptstyle WB}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Massimiliano Berti , Alberto Maspero , Paolo Ventura

We investigate nonlinear dynamics induced by the modulation instability of a two-component mixture in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. The nonlinear dynamics is examined using numerical simulations of the time-dependent coupled…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Makoto Tsubota

In this work, we consider the generalized Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation $$\partial_t u+\partial_x u+\partial_x( |u|^pu)-\partial_t \partial_x^{2}u=0, \quad(t,x) \in \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}, $$ with $p>4$. This equation has the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Rui Jia , Yifei Wu
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