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It is a matter of experience that nonlinear waves in dispersive media, propagating primarily in one direction, may appear periodic in small space and time scales, but their characteristics --- amplitude, phase, wave number, etc. --- slowly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Jared C. Bronski , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

The Whitham equation is a nonlocal, nonlinear partial differential equation that models the temporal evolution of spatial profiles of surface displacement of water waves. However, many laboratory and field measurements record time series at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 John D. Carter , Diane Henderson , Panayotis Panayotaros

This paper is concerned with the detailed behaviour of roll-waves undergoing a low-frequency perturbation. We rst derive the so-called Whitham's averaged modulation equations and relate the well-posedness of this set of equations to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Pascal Noble , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

Short-wave perturbations in a relaxing medium, governed by a special reduction of the Ostrovsky evolution equation, and later derived by Whitham, are studied using the gradient-holonomic integrability algorithm.The bi-Hamiltonicity and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-02-26 Nikolai Bogolubov , Anatoliy Prykarpatsky , Ilona Gucwa , Jolanta Golenia

We consider the existence of periodic traveling waves in a bidirectional Whitham equation, combining the full two-way dispersion relation from the incompressible Euler equations with a canonical shallow water nonlinearity. Of particular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Mats Ehrnström , Mathew A. Johnson , Kyle M. Claassen

We study the dynamical symmetries of a class of two-dimensional superintegrable systems on a 2-sphere, obtained by a procedure based on the Marsden-Weinstein reduction, by considering its shape-invariant intertwining operators. These are…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 J. A. Calzada , J. Negro , M. A. del Olmo

We determine the stability and instability of a sufficiently small and periodic traveling wave to long wavelength perturbations, for a nonlinear dispersive equation which extends a Camassa-Holm equation to include all the dispersion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Ashish K. Pandey

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

In this paper, we are interested in studying the modulational dynamics of interfacial waves rising buoyantly along a conduit of a viscous liquid. Formally, the behavior of modulated periodic waves on large space and time scales may be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Mathew A. Johnson , Wesley R. Perkins

In this paper, we first extend the explicit formula \cite{gerard2023explicit} for the classical Benjamin-Ono equation to each flow of the Benjamin-Ono hierarchy on line. We then use this representation to derive two main applications.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Patrick Gérard , Jiao He

We present a fundamental solution to an initial value problem for the KdV-Whitham system in an explicit integral form. Monotonically decreasing initial data with finite number of breaking points are considered. Generating function for the…

solv-int · Physics 2008-02-03 G. A. El

The rigorous asymptotic analysis for the Riemann problem of the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger hydrodynamics is a very interesting problem with many challenges. To date, the full analysis of this problem remains open. In this work,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Deng-Shan Wang , Peng Yan

We consider the Lagrangian formalism of the deformations of Whitham systems having Dubrovin-Zhang form. As an example the case of modulated one-phase solutions of the non-linear "V-Gordon" equation is considered.

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ya. Maltsev

We study the dynamics of a two-level system described by a slowly varying Hamiltonian and weakly coupled to the Ohmic environment. We follow the Bloch--Redfield perturbative approach to include the effect of the environment on qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Canran Xu , Amrit Poudel , Maxim G. Vavilov

It is proved that modulation in time and space of periodic wave trains, of the defocussing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, can be approximated by solutions of the Whitham modulation equations, in the hyperbolic case, on a natural time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Thomas J. Bridges , Anna Kostianko , Sergey Zelik

The multiphase Whitham modulation equations with $N$ phases have $2N$ characteristics which may be of hyperbolic or elliptic type. In this paper a nonlinear theory is developed for coalescence, where two characteristics change from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Thomas J. Bridges , Daniel J. Ratliff

The travelling wave problem for a particular bidirectional Whitham system modelling surface water waves is under consideration. This system firstly appeared in [Dinvay, Dutykh, Kalisch 2018], where it was numerically shown to be stable and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Evgueni Dinvay , Dag Nilsson

Partial differential equations endowed with a Hamiltonian structure, like the Korteweg--de Vries equation and many other more or less classical models, are known to admit rich families of periodic travelling waves. The stability theory for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-09 Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage , Pascal Noble , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

New travelling wave solutions to the Fornberg-Whitham equation are investigated. They are characterized by two parameters. The expresssions for the periodic and solitary wave solutions are obtained.

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-08-07 Jiangbo Zhou , Lixin Tian

We present a computational analysis of a 2$\times$2 hyperbolic system of balance laws whose solutions exhibit complex nonlinear behavior. Traveling-wave solutions of the system are shown to undergo a series of bifurcations as a parameter in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-13 Dmitry I. Kabanov , Aslan R. Kasimov