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We study the stability and instability of periodic traveling waves in the vicinity of the origin in the spectral plane, for equations of Benjamin- Bona-Mahony (BBM) and regularized Boussinesq types permitting nonlocal dispersion. We extend…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Ashish Kumar Pandey

In several cases of nonlinear dispersive PDEs, the difference between the nonlinear and linear evolutions with the same initial data, i.e. the integral term in Duhamel's formula, exhibits improved regularity. This property is usually called…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Simão Correia , Jorge Drumond Silva

The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of surface waves on shallow water that combines the unidirectional linear dispersion relation of the Euler equations with a weakly nonlinear approximation based on the KdV equation. We show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 John D. Carter , Marc Francius , Christian Kharif , Henrik Kalisch , Malek Abid

We consider the modulational instability of nonlinearly interacting two-dimensional waves in deep water, which are described by a pair of two-dimensional coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations. We derive a nonlinear dispersion relation.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. K. Shukla , I. Kourakis , B. Eliasson , M. Marklund , L. Stenflo

We propose a shallow water model which combines the dispersion relation of water waves and the Boussinesq equations, and which extends the Whitham equation to permit bidirectional propagation. We establish that its sufficiently small,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Ashish Kumar Pandey

A regularized Boussinesq equation is studied as a dispersive, long-wave (quasicontinuum) approximation of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice with a general cubic interaction force. Explicit periodic traveling wave solutions in terms of Jacobi…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-14 Mark A. Hoefer , Anna Vainchtein

In this paper we establish the orbital stability of periodic traveling waves for a general class of dispersive equations. We use the Implicit Function Theorem to guarantee the existence of smooth solutions depending of the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Fábio Natali

We derive the Whitham modulation equations for the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation via a multiple scales expansion and averaging two conservation laws over one oscillation period of its periodic traveling wave solutions. We then use the Whitham…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-11-12 Gino Biondini , Alexander Chernyavsky

Planar wave trains are traveling wave solutions whose wave profiles are periodic in one spatial direction and constant in the transverse direction. In this paper, we investigate the stability of planar wave trains in reaction-diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Björn de Rijk , Björn Sandstede

Modulational instability has been used to explain the formation of breather and rogue waves qualitatively. In this paper, we show modulational instability can be used to explain the structure of them in a quantitative way. We develop a…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-04-04 Liming Ling , Li-Chen Zhao

The nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation and the Whitham modulation equations both describe slowly varying, locally periodic nonlinear wavetrains, albeit in differing amplitude-frequency domains. In this paper, we take advantage of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-05-01 T. Congy , G. A. El , M. A. Hoefer , M. Shearer

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 study the modulational stability of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) using a time-dependent variational approach. Within this framework, we derive ordinary differential equations (ODEs) for the time evolution of the amplitude…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Rapti , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Smerzi , A. R. Bishop

We study the modulational instability of periodic traveling waves for a class of Hamiltonian systems in one spatial dimension. We examine how the Jordan block structure of the associated linearized operator bifurcates for small values of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-28 Jared C. Bronski , Vera Mikyoung Hur

This paper studies the local stable and unstable manifolds of equilibria for quasilinear and fully nonlinear PDEs. These manifolds are fundamental objects in the analysis of local dynamics. While their existence is well understood for ODEs,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Jalal Shatah , Chongchun Zeng

In the framework of Gurevich and Pitaevskii approach [1] we construct modulated by Whitham [2] solution of nonlinear Shrodinger (NS) equation partially saturating the modulational instability. This solution describes new scenario of…

patt-sol · Physics 2008-02-03 Ramil' F. Bikbaev , Vadim R. Kudashev

In this paper, it is proved that the KdV-Burgers equation with a monostable source term of Fisher-KPP type has small-amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions with finite fundamental period. These solutions emerge from a subcritical local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Raffaele Folino , Anna Naumkina , Ramón G. Plaza

This paper concerns spectral stability of nonlinear waves in KdV-type evolution equations. The relevant eigenvalue problem is defined by the composition of an unbounded self-adjoint operator with a finite number of negative eigenvalues and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We develop modulation theory for undular bores (dispersive shock waves) in the framework of the Gardner, or extended Korteweg--de Vries, equation, which is a generic mathematical model for weakly nonlinear and weakly dispersive wave…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-03-26 A. M. Kamchatnov , Y. -H. Kuo , T. -C. Lin , T. -L. Horng , S. -C. Gou , R. Clift , G. A. El , R. H. J. Grimshaw

A nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation with an effect of viscosity is derived from a Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation modified with viscosity using the method of multiple time-scales. It is well known that the plane-wave solution of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-20 N. Karjanto , K. M. Tiong