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This paper is a detailed and self-contained study of the stability properties of periodic traveling wave solutions of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation $u_{tt}-u_{xx}+V'(u)=0$, where $u$ is a scalar-valued function of $x$ and $t$, and the…
We study a one dimensional metastable dynamics of internal interfaces for the initial boundary value problem for the following convection-reaction-diffusion equation \begin{equation*} \partial_t u = \varepsilon \partial_x^2 u -\partial_x…
The goal of the present paper is to study the viscoelastic wave equation with the time delay \[ |u_t|^\rho u_{tt}-\Delta u-\Delta u_{tt}+\int_0^tg(t-s)\Delta u(s)ds+\mu_1u_t(x,t)+\mu_2 u_t(x,t-\tau)=b|u|^{p-2}u\] under initial boundary…
Quasi-stationary, or metastable, states play an important role in two-dimensional turbulent fluid flows where they often emerge on time-scales much shorter than the viscous time scale, and then dominate the dynamics for very long time…
For the stationary nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $-\Delta u+ V(x)u- f(u) = \lambda u$ with periodic potential $V$ we study the existence and stability properties of multibump solutions with prescribed $L^2$-norm. To this end we introduce…
This thesis is concerned with dynamics of conservative nonlinear waves on bounded domains. In general, there are two scenarios of evolution. Either the solution behaves in an oscillatory, quasiperiodic manner or the nonlinear effects cause…
We study the following nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation $$ iu_t=-\Delta u+V(x)u-a|u|^qu \quad (t,x)\in \mathbb{R}^1\times \mathbb{R}^2, $$ where $a>0, \ q\in(0,2)$ and $V(x)$ is some type of trapping potentials. For any fixed $a>a^*:=…
In this paper we study a convection-reaction-diffusion equation of the form \begin{equation*} u_t=\varepsilon(h(u)u_x)_x-f(u)_x+f'(u), \quad t>0, \end{equation*} with a nonlinear diffusion in a bounded interval of the real line. In…
The lifetime of a metastable state in the transient dynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle is analyzed, both in terms of the mean first passage time and by means of the mean growth rate coefficient. Both quantities feature non…
In this article, we study the blow-up of the damped wave equation in the \textit{scale-invariant case} and in the presence of two nonlinearities. More precisely, we consider the following equation: $$u_{tt}-\Delta…
We study modulational stability and instability in the Whitham equation, combining the dispersion relation of water waves and a nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, and modified to permit the effects of surface tension and constant…
The aim article is to contribute to the definition of a versatile language for metastability in the context of partial differential equations of evolutive type. A general framework suited for parabolic equations in one dimensional bounded…
The main result of this research Monograph is the existence of small amplitude time quasi-periodic solutions for autonomous nonlinear wave equations $$ u_{tt} - \Delta u + V(x) u + g(x, u) = 0 \, , \quad x \in T^d \, , \quad g (x,u) = a(x)…
Classical metastability manifests as noise-driven switching between disjoint basins of attraction and slowing down of relaxation, quantum systems like qubits and Rydberg atoms exhibit analogous behavior through collective quantum jumps and…
We obtain a general solution for the probability density function of wave intensities in non-stationary Wave Turbulence. The solution is expressed in terms of the wave action spectrum evolving according the the wave-kinetic equation. We…
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…
Motivated by the oscillations that were seen at the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, we introduce the notion of solutions with a prevailing mode for the nonlinear evolution beam equation $$ u_{tt} + u_{xxxx} + f(u)= g(x, t) $$ in bounded space-time…
We consider a system of reaction-diffusion equations in a bounded interval of the real line, with emphasis on the metastable dynamics, whereby the time-dependent solution approaches its steady state in an asymptotically exponentially long…
We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to wave equations with a structural damping term \[ u_{tt}-\Delta u+\Delta^2 u_t=0, \qquad u(0,x)=u_0(x), \,\,\, u_t(0,x)=u_1(x), \] in the whole space. New thresholds are reported in this paper…
In this research, we investigate in-depth the nonlinear energy transmission phenomenon in a metastable modular metastructure and develop efficient tools for the design of such systems. Previous studies on a one-dimensional (1D)…