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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

Turbulence in the quantum (superfluid) regime, similarly to its classical counterpart, continues to attract a great deal of scientific inquiry, due to the yet high number of unresolved problems. While turbulent states can be routinely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-10 João D. Rodrigues , José T. Mendonça , Hugo Terças

Wave resonance is the fundamental mechanism of non-linear instabilities of fluid flows, and affects the long-time evolution of fluid motions and other physical problems described by non-linear differential equations. Some significant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Lun-Shin Yao

Waves in excitable media can be treated by a simple geometric theory. The propagation velocity is assumed known and evolution of wave fronts is determined by elementary physical principles (Fermat's principle, Huygens' principle). Based on…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Kristof Kaly-Kullai

We show that the self-interactions present in the effective field theory formulation of general relativity can couple gravitational wave modes and generate nonclassical states. The output of gravitational nonlinear processes can also be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Thiago Guerreiro

Emergent phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and refer to spatial, temporal, or spatiotemporal pattern formation in complex nonlinear systems driven out of equilibrium that is not contained in the microscopic descriptions at the…

A recent paper [CGT] studies the evolution of star-shaped mean convex hypersurfaces of the Euclidean space by a class of nonhomogeneous expanding curvature flows. In the present paper we consider the same problem in the real, complex and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Giuseppe Pipoli

The nonlinear dynamics of the free surface of an ideal dielectric liquid in a strong electric field is studied. The equation for the evolution of surface electrohydrodynamic waves is derived in the approximation of small surface-slope…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikolay M. Zubarev

The piston shock problem is a prototypical example of strongly nonlinear fluid flow that enables the experimental exploration of fluid dynamics in extreme regimes. Here we investigate this problem for a nominally dissipationless, superfluid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-09 Maren E. Mossman , Mark A. Hoefer , Keith Julien , Panos G. Kevrekidis , Peter Engels

Non-Euclidean geometry has recently emerged as a powerful tool, offering new insights and applications in optical microcavities supporting Whispering Gallery Modes (WGMs). In this study, we extend the concept of polygonal microcavities to…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-02 Yechun Ding , Yongsheng Wang , Peng Li , Yaxin Guo , Yanpeng Zhang , Feng Yun , Feng Li

Flow networks are fundamental for understanding systems such as animal and plant vasculature or power distribution grids. These networks can encode, transmit, and transform information embodied in the spatial and temporal distribution of…

The nonlinear coupling between spacetime geometry and matter in the early Universe remains a frontier in theoretical cosmology. By introducing a novel gravitomagnetic-hydrodynamic framework, we reveal a fundamental analogy between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Jiaxiang Liang , Peng Xu , Minghui Du , Yifu Cheng , Zhan Wang , Ziren Luo , Manjia Liang

The focusing of acoustic waves is used to study nucleation phenomena in liquids. At large amplitude, non-linear effects are important so that the magnitude of pressure or density oscillations is difficult to predict. We present a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-11 C. Appert , C. Tenaud , X. Chavanne , S. Balibar , F. Caupin , D. d'Humières

It is well known that Lagrangian dynamical systems naturally arise in describing wave front dynamics in the limit of short waves (which is called pseudoclassical limit or limit of geometrical optics). Wave fronts are the surfaces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

We examine the fundamental question whether a random discrete structure with the minimal number of restrictions can converge to continuous metric space. We study the geometrical properties such as the dimensionality and the curvature…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-14 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Ilias Amanatidis

This paper deals with the dead-water phenomenon, which occurs when a ship sails in a stratified fluid, and experiences an important drag due to waves below the surface. More generally, we study the generation of internal waves by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Vincent Duchene

The flow of thin liquid films on inclined or vertical surfaces is one of immense importance, with applications spanning many types of process industries, due to the increased mass and heat transfer brought about by the presence of waves on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-24 Idris Adebayo

The motion of noncircular two-dimensional vortices is shown to depend on a form of coupling between vortex ellipticity and the gradient of fluid density. The approach is based on the perspective that an elliptic vortex can be described as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Jasmine M. Andersen , Andrew A. Voitiv , Mark E. Siemens , Mark T. Lusk

Based on the idea of emergent spacetime, we consider the possibility that the material underlying our spacetime is modelled by a fluid. We are particularly interested in possible connections between the geometrical properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-10 Jianwei Mei

In this article, we first investigate the kinematics of specific geodesic flows on two dimensional media with constant curvature, by explicitly solving the evolution (Raychaudhuri) equations for the expansion, shear and rotation along the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-03-23 Anirvan Dasgupta , Hemwati Nandan , Sayan Kar