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This paper concerns the stabilizing effect of viscosity on the vortex sheets. It is found that although a vortex sheet is not a time-asymptotic attractor for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, a viscous wave that approximates the…

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Confirming a conjecture of Lyng--Raoofi--Texier--Zumbrun, we show that stability of strong detonation waves in the ZND, or small-viscosity, limit is equivalent to stability of the limiting ZND detonation together with stability of the…

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Within the framework developed in \cite{Gr, JLL, RT1}, we rigorously establish the nonlinear instability of roll solutions to the two-dimensional generalized Swift-Hohenberg equation (gSHE). Our analysis is based on spectral information…

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We study for the Richard-Gavrilyuk model of inclined shallow water flow, an extension of the classical Saint Venant equations incorporating vorticity, the new feature of convective-wave solutions analogous to contact discontinuitis in…

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We consider an inverse scattering problem and its near-field approximation at high frequencies. We first prove, for both problems, Lipschitz stability results for determining the low-frequency component of the potential. Then we show that,…

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The present work shows that essentially all small-amplitude periodic traveling waves of the electronic Euler-Poisson system are spectrally unstable. This instability is neither modulational nor co-periodic, and thus requires an unusual…

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We consider quasilinear generalizations of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and dispersive perturbations of the Euler equations for compressible fluids, either in Lagrangian or in Eulerian coordinates. In particular, our framework includes…

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We are concerned with the stability of steady multi-wave configurations for the full Euler equations of compressible fluid flow. In this paper, we focus on the stability of steady four-wave configurations that are the solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Matthew Rigby

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…

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We consider the problem of spectral stability of traveling wave solutions $u=\gamma(x-Wt)$ for a system of viscous conservation laws $\partial_t u + \partial_x F(u) = \partial^2_x u$. Such solutions correspond to heteroclinic trajectories…

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We study the existence and stability of the standing waves for the periodic cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a point defect determined by a periodic Dirac distribution at the origin. This equation admits a smooth curve of…

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For 2D compressible Euler equations of isentropic gas, we prove the structural stability of mixed Riemann configurations containing centered rarefaction waves and surfaces of discontinuities (such as shock waves or vortex sheets), by…

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