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In this paper, we study the numerical stabilization of a 1D system of two wave equations coupled by velocities with an internal, local control acting on only one equation. In the theoretical part of this study, we distinguished two cases.…
An initial-boundary value problem for the $n$-dimensional wave equation is considered. A three-level explicit in time and conditionally stable 4th-order compact scheme constructed recently for $n=2$ and the square mesh is generalized to the…
We analyze the inverse spectral problem on the half line associated with elastic surface waves. Here, we focus on Love waves. Under certain generic conditions, we establish uniqueness and present a reconstruction scheme for the S- wavespeed…
Given a half-harmonic map $u\in \dot H^{\frac{1}{2},2}(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{S}^1)$ minimizing the fractional Dirichlet energy under Dirichlet boundary conditions in $\mathbb{R}\setminus I$, we show the existence of a second half-harmonic map,…
We apply the version of the method of simplest equation called modified method of simplest equation for obtaining exact traveling wave solutions of a class of equations that contain as particular case a nonlinear PDE that models shallow…
Steady-state and transient antiplane dynamic processes in a structured solids consisting of uniform periodic square-cell lattices connected by a lattice layer of different bond stiffnesses and point masses are analyzed. A semi-infinite…
We study the Cauchy problem for a quasilinear wave equation with low-regularity data. A space-time $L^2$ estimate for the variable coefficient wave equation plays a central role for this purpose. Assuming radial symmetry, we establish the…
The KPII equation is an integrable nonlinear PDE in 2+1 dimensions (two spatial and one temporal), which arises in several physical circumstances, including fluid mechanics where it describes waves in shallow water. It provides a…
We identify a large class of systems of semilinear wave equations, on fixed accelerated expanding FLRW spacetimes, with nearly at spatial slices, for which we prove small data future global well-posedness. The family of systems we consider…
We study travelling waves on a two--dimensional lattice with linear and nonlinear coupling between nearest particles and a periodic nonlinear substrate potential. Such a discrete system can model molecules adsorbed on a substrate crystal…
We consider the existence of spatially localized traveling wave solutions of the mass-in-mass lattice. Under an anti-resonance condition first discovered by Kevrekidis, Stefanov and Xu, we prove that such solutions exist in two…
In this paper, we consider a wave equation with strong damping and logarithmic nonlinearity. This paper aims to study the local and global existence, uniqueness and the uniform energy decay rate of a weak solution under some sufficient…
We consider a system of coupled nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations in one space dimension. First, we prove the existence of multi-speed solitary waves, i.e solutions to the system with each component behaving at large times as a solitary…
Explicit harmonic and wave maps are typically available only in highly symmetric or constant-curvature settings, where additional symmetry or integrability structures are present. We develop a reduction framework for pseudo-Riemannian…
In relation to spatiotemporal intermittency, as it can be observed in coupled map lattices, we study the stability of different wavelengths in competition. Introducing a two dimensional map, we compare its dynamics with the one of the whole…
We study the defocusing semilinear wave equation in ${\mathbb{R}}\times{\mathbb{R}}^2\backslash{\mathcal K}$ with the Dirichlet boundary condition, where ${\mathcal K}$ is a star-shaped obstacle with smooth boundary. We first show that the…
We study an inverse problem for the fractional wave equation with a potential by the measurement taking on arbitrary subsets of the exterior in the space-time domain. We are interested in the issues of uniqueness and stability estimate in…
Sufficient conditions for wave breaking are found for the short-pulse equation describing wave packets of few cycles on the ultra-short pulse scale. The analysis relies on the method of characteristics and conserved quantities of the…
We study half-space linear kinetic equations with general boundary conditions that consist of both given incoming data and various type of reflections, extending our previous work [LLS14] on half-space equations with incoming boundary…
We fill the two main remaining gaps in the full classification of non-degenerate planar traveling waves of scalar balance laws from the point of view of spectral and nonlinear stability/instability under smooth perturbations. On one hand we…