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In the present contribution we investigate some features of dynamical lattice systems near periodic traveling waves. First, following the formal averaging method of Whitham, we derive modulation systems expected to drive at main order the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Bugra Kabil , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

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 well-known Stokes waves refer to periodic traveling waves under the gravity at the free surface of a two dimensional full water wave system. In this paper, we prove that small-amplitude Stokes waves with infinite depth are nonlinearly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Gong Chen , Qingtang Su

This article is focused on two related topics within the study of partial differential equations (PDEs) that illustrate a beautiful connection between dynamics, topology, and analysis: stability and spatial dynamics. The first is a property…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Margaret Beck

The interaction of localised solitary waves with large-scale, time-varying dispersive mean flows subject to nonconvex flux is studied in the framework of the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation, a canonical model for nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-01 Kiera van der Sande , Gennady A. El , Mark A. Hoefer

The nolinear hydrodynamic equations of the surface of a liquid drop are shown to be directly connected to Korteweg de Vries (KdV, MKdV) systems, giving traveling solutions that are cnoidal waves. They generate multiscale patterns ranging…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-06 Andrei Ludu , Jerry P. Draayer

The paper discusses linear fractional representations of parameter-dependent nonlinear systems with dynamics defined by real rational nonlinearities and a finite set of point delays. The global asymptotic stability is investigated via…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-03-27 M. De la Sen

In this paper we consider the spectral and nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of a generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. In particular, we resolve the long-standing question of nonlinear modulational stability by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

Extending results of Oh--Zumbrun and Johnson--Zumbrun for parabolic conservation laws, we show that spectral stability implies nonlinear stability for spatially periodic viscous roll wave solutions of the one-dimensional St. Venant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-19 Mathew Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun , Pascal Noble

We identify a new type of pattern formation in spatially distributed active systems. We simulate one-dimensional two-component systems with predator-prey local interaction and pursuit-evasion taxis between the components. In a sufficiently…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-29 V. N. Biktashev , M. A. Tsyganov

Nonlinear waves in dispersive media can be succeptible to modulational instabilities. We examine a category of scalar equations, with general dispersion and monomial nonlinearity, including a large variety of KdV-like equations. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Bhavna Kaushik , Bernard Deconinck

Straightforward method for the derivation of linearized version of stochastic stability analysis of the nonlinear differential equations is presented. Methods for the study of large time behavior of the moments are exposed. These general…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 Gyorgy Steinbrecher , Xavier Garbet

The dynamics of the modulation instability induced by cross phase modulation is studied by considering the influence of the walk-off and noninstantaneous response effects for two copropagating optical fields travelling in the anomalous…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-08 Askery Canabarro , B. Santos , B. de Lima Bernardo

In this paper, we study the nonlinear dispersive waves including the rarefaction and dispersive shock waves in the discrete modified KdV equation through the numerical simulations of the dispersive Riemann problems. In particular, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-06 Su Yang

Conditional and Lie symmetries of semi-linear 1D Schr\"odinger and diffusion equations are studied if the mass (or the diffusion constant) is considered as an additional variable. In this way, dynamical symmetries of semi-linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stoimen Stoimenov , Malte Henkel

A simple and general formalism for mode coupling by a spatial, temporal or spatiotemporal perturbation in dispersive materials is developed. This formalism can be used for studying various linear and non-linear optical interactions…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Brenda Dana , Lilya Lobachinsky , Alon Bahabad

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

The interaction between two co-propagating electrostatic wavepackets characterized by arbitrary carrier wavenumber is considered. A one-dimensional (1D) non-magnetized plasma model is adopted, consisting of a cold inertial ion fluid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 N. Lazarides , Giorgos P. Veldes , Amaria Javed , Ioannis Kourakis

We investigate the stability and nonlinear local dynamics of spectrally stable wave trains in reaction-diffusion systems. For each $N\in\mathbb{N}$, such $T$-periodic traveling waves are easily seen to be nonlinearly asymptotically stable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Mathew A. Johnson , Wesley R. Perkins

Ubiquitous nonlinear waves in dispersive media include localized solitons and extended hydrodynamic states such as dispersive shock waves. Despite their physical prominence and the development of thorough theoretical and experimental…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-04-11 Michelle D. Maiden , Dalton V. Anderson , Nevil A. Franco , Gennady A. El , Mark A. Hoefer