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We study the formation of a large-scale coherent structure (a condensate) in classical wave equations by considering the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation as a representative model. We formulate a thermodynamic description of the…

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This manuscript is a lightly reformatted version of my 2017 PhD thesis. I am posting it on arXiv at the request of my advisor, Sergiu Klainerman, who noted that it has been useful to some students. The content largely reflects the thesis in…

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We study the behavior of nonlinear waves in a two-dimensional medium with density and stress relation that vary periodically in space. Efficient approximate Riemann solvers are developed for the corresponding variable-coefficient…

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In this paper we provide a local well posedness result for a quasilinear beam-wave system of equations on a one-dimensional spatial domain under periodic and Dirichlet boundary conditions. This kind of systems provides a refined model for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Roberto Feola , Filippo Giuliani , Felice Iandoli , Jessica Elisa Massetti

A thin and narrow rectangular plate having the two short edges hinged and the two long edges free is considered. A nonlinear nonlocal evolution equation describing the deformation of the plate is introduced: well-posedness and existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-07 Denis Bonheure , Filippo Gazzola , Ederson Moreira dos Santos

This paper deals with the boundary stabilization problem of a one-dimensional wave equation with a switching time-delay in the boundary. We show that the problem is well-posed in the sense of semigroups theory of linear operators. Then, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Kaïs Ammari , Boumediène Chentouf , Nejib Smaoui

We investigate the stability, nonlinear development and equilibrium structure of vortices in a background shearing Keplerian flow. We make use of high-resolution global two-dimensional compressible hydrodynamic simulations. We introduce the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Bodo , A. Tevzadze , G. Chagelishvili , A. Mignone , P. Rossi , A. Ferrari

This paper studies the upper bound of the lifespan of classical solutions of the initial value problems for one dimensional wave equations with quasilinear terms of space-, or time-derivatives of the unknown function. The results are same…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Yuki Haruyama , Hiroyuki Takamura

In one-dimensional anharmonic lattices, we construct nonlinear standing waves (SWs) reducing to harmonic SWs at small amplitude. For SWs with spatial periodicity incommensurate with the lattice period, a transition by breaking of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Anna Maria Morgante , Magnus Johansson , Georgios Kopidakis , Serge Aubry

We investigate the dynamics of localized solutions of the relativistic cold fluid plasma model in the small but finite amplitude limit, for slightly overcritical plasma density. Adopting a multiple scale analysis, we derive a perturbed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 E. Siminos , G. Sánchez-Arriaga , V. Saxena , I. Kourakis

A closed-form analytical solution is found for the nonlinear dynamics of isolated, near-threshold waves in the presence of strong scattering. The proposed solution can be useful in verifying codes across several disciplines, including…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 Vinicius Duarte , Nikolai Gorelenkov

Using spatial domain techniques developed by the authors and Myunghyun Oh in the context of parabolic conservation laws, we establish under a natural set of spectral stability conditions nonlinear asymptotic stability with decay at Gaussian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Mathew Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

Turing patterns on unbounded domains have been widely studied in systems of reaction-diffusion equations. However, up to now, they have not been studied for systems of conservation laws. Here, we (i) derive conditions for Turing instability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Blake Barker , Soyeun Jung , Kevin Zumbrun

In order to understand the nonlinear stability of many types of time-periodic travelling waves on unbounded domains, one must overcome two main difficulties: the presence of embedded neutral eigenvalues and the time-dependence of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Margaret Beck , Bjorn Sandstede , Kevin Zumbrun

Extensive studies have investigated the transition mechanism of boundary layers initiated by a single primary instability. In a real-world scenario, however, multiple primary instabilities of different physical nature would coexist and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-18 Xiao-Bai Li , Yifeng Chen , Chihyung Wen , Peixu Guo

The goal of this work is to determine classes of travelling solitary wave solutions for a differential approximation of a finite difference scheme by means of a hyperbolic ansatz. It is shown that spurious solitary waves can occur in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Claire David , Pierre Sagaut

Discrete nonlinear systems support a rich variety of localized and extended wave phenomena, with their dynamics sensitively dependent on the symmetries of the underlying interaction forces within the lattice. Odd elasticity, emerging in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-20 Andrus Giraldo , Stefan Ruschel , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

The quasi-coherent effects in two-dimensional incompressible turbulence are analyzed starting from the test particle trajectories. They can acquire coherent aspects when the stochastic potential has slow time variation and the motion is not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Vlad , F. Spineanu

We investigate the dissipative dynamics of linear and nonlinear waves in harmonic traps by means of engineered complex non-Hermitian potentials. By combining an analytical mapping between real and complex Schr\"odinger equations with direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Mario Salerno

A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with repulsive (defocusing) nonlinearity is considered. As an example, a system with a spatially varying coefficient of the nonlinear term is studied. The nonlinearity is chosen to be repelling except on a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-11-28 R. K. Jackson , R. Marangell , H. Susanto