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In astrophysics and meteorology there exist numerous situations where flows exhibit small velocities compared to the sound speed. To overcome the stringent timestep restrictions posed by the predominantly used explicit methods for…

In order to understand the nonlinear stability of many types of time-periodic travelling waves on unbounded domains, one must overcome two main difficulties: the presence of embedded neutral eigenvalues and the time-dependence of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Margaret Beck , Bjorn Sandstede , Kevin Zumbrun

We perform the linear analysis of causality and stability for a minimal extended spin hydrodynamics up to second order of the gradient expansion. The first order spin hydrodynamics, with a rank-3 spin tensor being antisymmetric for only the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-23 Xin-Qing Xie , Dong-Lin Wang , Chen Yang , Shi Pu

The stability properties of one-dimensional radiative shocks with a power-law cooling function of the form $\Lambda \propto \rho^2T^\alpha$ are the main subject of this work. The linear analysis originally presented by Chevalier & Imamura,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Mignone

This work provides a ground for a quantitative interpretation of experiments on step bunching during sublimation of crystals with a pronounced Ehrlich-Schwoebel (ES) barrier in the regime of weak desorption. A strong step bunching…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Joachim Krug , Vesselin Tonchev , Stoyan Stoyanov , Alberto Pimpinelli

We address the existence and stability of transonic shocks for the two-dimensional steady rotating Euler system in an almost flat nozzle. Under the influence of the Coriolis force, we first establish a class of special transonic shock…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Zihao Zhang

The dynamics of tensile crack fronts restricted to advance in a plane are studied. In an ideal linear elastic medium, a propagating mode along the crack front with a velocity slightly less than the Rayleigh wave velocity, is found to exist.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Sharad Ramanathan , Daniel S. Fisher

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Jin Jia , Tao Luo

A new condition for the linear dissipative instability of the strong plane shock wave in an arbitrary medium is obtained. The instability of the shock is realized due to the flow instability behind its front, which is similar to the known…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-24 Sergey G. Chefranov

We study the two-dimensional structural stability of shock waves in a compressible isentropic inviscid elastic fluid in the sense of the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of discontinuous shock front solutions of the equations of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Alessandro Morando , Yuri Trakhinin , Paola Trebeschi

The archetypal instability of a structure is associated with the eponymous Euler beam, modeled as an inextensible curve which exhibits a supercritical bifurcation at a critical compressive load. In contrast, a soft compressible beam is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Ee Hou Yong , L. Mahadevan

The structure of whistler precursor in a quasi-perpendicular shock is studied within two-fluid approach in one-dimensional case. The complete set of equations is reduced to the KdV equation, if no dissipation is included. With a…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 G. Granit , M. Gedalin

The thermomagnetic instability of the critical state in superconductors is analysed with account of the dissipation and dispersion. The possibility is demonstrated of the existance of a nonlinear shok wave describing the final stage of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 N. A. Taylanov

We study the stability of a type of stratified flows of the two dimensional inviscid incompressible MHD equations with velocity damping. The exponential stability for the perturbation near certain stratified flow is investigated in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Yi Du , Wang Yang , Yi Zhou

The growth rate of long wavelength kinetic instabilities arising due to the interaction of a collimated beam of relativistic particles and a cold unmagnetized plasma are calculated in the ultra relativistic limit. For sufficiently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Itay Rabinak , Boaz Katz , Eli Waxman

This work establishes nonlinear orbital asymptotic stability of scalar radiative shock profiles, namely, traveling wave solutions to the simplified model system of radiating gas \cite{Hm}, consisting of a scalar conservation law coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia , Ramon Plaza , Toan Nguyen , Kevin Zumbrun

During stellar core collapse, which eventually leads to a supernovae explosion, the stalled shock is unstable due to the standing accretion shock instability (SASI). This instability induces large-scale non spherical oscillations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Jerome Guilet , Thierry Foglizzo

The phenomena of self-sustained shock wave oscillations over conical bodies with a blunt axisymmetric base subject to uniform high-speed flow are investigated in a hypersonic wind tunnel at Mach number $M = 6$. The flow and shock wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vaisakh Sasidharan , Subrahmanyam Duvvuri

We prove global in time dynamical stability of steady transonic shock solutions in divergent quasi-one-dimensional nozzles. We assume neither the smallness of the relative slope of the nozzle nor the weakness of the shock. Key ingredients…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-01 Jeffrey Rauch , Chunjing Xie , Zhouping Xin

In this study, a linear stability analysis is performed for different Weakly Compressible Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (WCSPH) methods on a 1D periodic domain describing an incompressible base flow. The perturbation equation can be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 Geoffroy Chaussonnet , Rainer Koch , Hans-Joerg Bauer