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We prove an asymptotic stability result for the water wave equations linearized around small solitary waves. The equations we consider govern irrotational flow of a fluid with constant density bounded below by a rigid horizontal bottom and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-03 Robert L. Pego , Shu-Ming Sun

The dynamics of solitary gravity-capillary water waves propagating on the surface of a three-dimensional fluid domain is studied numerically. In order to accurately compute complex time dependent solutions, we simplify the full potential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhan Wang , Paul A Milewski

We review the Analogue Gravity description of a unidirectional water wave system, assuming no prior knowledge of General Relativity or differential geometry. In so doing, we generalize established results concerning an effective curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-09 Alessia Biondi , Scott Robertson , Germain Rousseaux

We consider the propagation of smooth solitary waves in a two-dimensional generalization of the Camassa--Holm equation. We show that transverse perturbations to one-dimensional solitary waves behave similarly to the KP-II theory. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Anna Geyer , Yue Liu , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

The various patterns of internal solitary wave interactions are complex phenomena in the ocean, susceptible to the influence of shear flow and density distributions. Satellite imagery serves as an effective tool for investigating these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-15 Junchao Sun , Xiaoyan Tang , Yong Chen

In the present work, we consider the existence, stability, and dynamics of solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation. We start by introducing the Soler model of self-interacting spinors, and discuss its localized waveforms in one, two,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-10 J. Cuevas-Maraver , N. Boussaïd , A. Comech , R. Lan , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena

In this paper we study the solitary waves for the coupled Schr\"odinger - Maxwell equations in three-dimensional space. We prove the existence of a sequence of radial solitary waves for these equations with a fixed $L^2$ norm. We study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Vladimir Georgiev

For the problem describing steady, gravity waves with vorticity on a two-dimensional, unidirectional flow of finite depth the following results are obtained. (i) Bounds for the free-surface profile and for Bernoulli's constant. (ii) If only…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolay Kuznetsov , Evgeniy Lokharu

While several articles have been written on water waves on flows with constant vorticity, little is known about the extent to which a nonconstant vorticity affects the flow structure, such as the appearance of stagnation points. In order to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-18 Marcelo V. Flamarion , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr

For the nonlinear Dirac equation with scalar self-interaction (the Soler model) in three spatial dimensions, we consider the linearization at solitary wave solutions and find the invariant spaces which correspond to different spherical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Nabile Boussaïd , Andrew Comech , Niranjana Kulkarni

In this paper we consider two-dimensional, stratified, steady water waves propagating over an impermeable flat bed and with a free surface. The motion is assumed to be driven by capillarity (that is, surface tension) on the surface and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Samuel Walsh

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

We prove existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions with large initial data for a system of equations modeling the interaction of short waves, governed by a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, and long waves, described by the equations of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Hermano Frid , Daniel R. Marroquin , João F. C. Nariyoshi

In this paper, persistence of solitary wave solutions of the regularized long wave equation with small perturbations are investigated by the geometric singular perturbation theory. Two different kinds of the perturbations are considered in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Hang Zheng , Y-H. Xia

We exhibit smooth initial data for the 2D water wave equation for which we prove that smoothness of the interface breaks down in finite time. Moreover, we show a stability result together with numerical evidence that there exist solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Angel Castro , Diego Córdoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo , Javier Gómez-Serrano

Using Lie group theory we construct explicit solitary wave solutions of coupled nonlinear Schrodinger systems with spatially inhomogeneous nonlinearities. We present the general theory, use it to construct different families of explicit…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 Juan Belmonte-Beitia , Valeriy Brazhnyi , Victor M. Perez-Garcia

The interaction of a solitary wave and a slowly varying mean background or flow for the Serre-Green-Naghdi (SGN) equations is studied using Whitham modulation theory. The exact form of the three SGN-Whitham modulation equations -- two for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Thibault Congy , Gennady El , Sergey Gavrilyuk , Mark Hoefer , Keh-Ming Shyue

We study the behavior of solitary-wave solutions of some generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with an external potential. The equations have the feature that in the absence of the external potential, they have solutions describing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Frohlich , S. Gustafson , B. L. G. Jonsson , I. M. Sigal

A system of two-dimensional nonlinear equations of hydrodynamics is considered. It is shown that for the this system in the general case a solution with weak discontinuity-type singularity behaves as a square root of S(x,y,t), where…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vitaly V. Bulatov , Yuriy V. Vladimirov , Vasily A. Vakorin

Fully localised solitary waves are travelling-wave solutions of the three-dimensional gravity-capillary water wave problem which decay to zero in every horizontal spatial direction. Their existence for water of finite depth has recently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Boris Buffoni , Mark D. Groves , Erik Wahlén