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We investigate models of dispersive long internal waves with rotational effects, specifically the Benjamin-Ono (BO) and intermediate long wave (ILW) equations modified by the presence of the nonlocal operator $\partial_x^{-1}$, which…

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We consider the nonlocal analogue of the Fisher-KPP equation. We do not assume that the Borel-measure is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure. We gives a sufficient condition for existence of traveling waves, and a…

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In this paper, we investigate the instability of the spherical travelling wave solutions for the Transport-Stokes system in $\mathbb{R}^3$. First, a classical scaling argument ensures instability among all probability measures for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Matthieu Bonnivard , Amina Mecherbet

We complete a full classification of non-degenerate traveling waves of scalar balance laws from the point of view of spectral and nonlinear stability/instability under (piecewise) smooth perturbations. A striking feature of our analysis is…

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This work studies the stability of solitary waves of a class of sixth-order Boussinesq equations.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Amin Esfahani , Steven Levandosky

We study travelling wave solutions to Korteweg--de Vries type equations which have double power nonlinearities with integer indices, such as the Gardner equation, and fractional dispersion. Whether these equations have ground state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Kaito Kokubu

We prove the instability of a ``critical'' solitary wave of the generalized Korteweg -- de Vries equation, the one with the speed at the border between the stability and instability regions. The instability mechanism involved is ``purely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrew Comech , Scipio Cuccagna , Dmitry Pelinovsky

We study theoretically the superfluidity and stability of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) whose interatomic scattering length is periodically modulated with optical Feshbach resonance. Our numerical study finds that the properties of this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-02-08 Shao-Liang Zhang , Zheng-Wei Zhou , Biao Wu

We consider quasilinear generalizations of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and dispersive perturbations of the Euler equations for compressible fluids, either in Lagrangian or in Eulerian coordinates. In particular, our framework includes…

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We consider the periodic standing waves in the derivative nonlinear Schrodinger (DNLS) equation arising in plasma physics. By using a newly developed algebraic method with two eigenvalues, we classify all periodic standing waves in terms of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-05-19 Jinbing Chen , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Jeremy Upsal

We study the unstable spectrum close to the imaginary axis for the linearization of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation about a periodic traveling wave in a co-moving frame. We define dynamical Hamiltonian-Hopf instabilities as points in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Robert Marangell , Peter D. Miller

In this work, we study a model of a one-dimensional magnetic metamaterial formed by a discrete array of nonlinear resonators. We focus on periodic and localized traveling waves of the model, in the presence of loss and an external drive.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 M. Agaoglou , V. M. Rothos , D. J Fratzeskakis , G. P. Veldes , H. Susanto

We investigate the existence and spectral stability of traveling wave solutions for a class of fourth-order semilinear wave equations, commonly referred to as beam equations. Using variational methods based on a constrained maximization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Vishnu Iyer , Ross Parker , Atanas G. Stefanov

The dynamics of two pairs of counter-propagating waves in two-component media is considered within the framework of two generally nonintegrable coupled Sine-Gordon equations. We consider the dynamics of weakly nonlinear wave packets, and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Griffiths , R. H. J. Grimshaw , K. R. Khusnutdinova

We carry out a systematic analytical and numerical study of spectral stability of discontinuous roll wave solutions of the inviscid Saint Venant equations, based on a periodic Evans-Lopatinski determinant analogous to the periodic Evans…

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In this paper, we study local well-posedness and orbital stability of standing waves for a singularly perturbed one-dimensional nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation. We first establish local well-posedness of the Cauchy problem by a fixed point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Elek Csobo , François Genoud , Masahito Ohta , Julien Royer

This paper discusses new perspectives and approaches to the problem of disk dynamics where, in this study, we focus on the effects of viscous instabilities influenced by boundary effects. The Boussinesq approximation of the viscous large…

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We study spectral stability of small amplitude periodic traveling waves of the Ostrovsky equation. We prove that these waves exhibit spectral instabilities arising from a collision of pair of non-zero eigenvalues on the imaginary axis when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Bhavna , Atul Kumar , Ashish Kumar Pandey

The Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation (BBM) is introduced as a regularization of the Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV) for long water waves \cite{BBM1972}. In this paper, we establish the convergence from the BBM to the KdV for energy class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Younghun Hong , Junyeong Jang , Changhun Yang

We examine the local conditions for radiative damping and driving of short wavelength, propagating hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in static, optically thick, stratified equilibria. We show that so-called strange modes in…

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