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We study a linear model for the propagation of hydro-acoustic waves and tsunami in a stratified free-surface ocean. A formulation was previously obtained by linearizing the compressible Euler equations. The new formulation is obtained by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Juliette Dubois , Sébastien Imperiale , Anne Mangeney , Jacques Sainte-Marie

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) are expanding nonlinear wave trains that arise when dispersion regularizes a steepening front, a phenomenon observed in fluids, plasmas, optics, and superfluids. Here we report the first experimental…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 H. McCright , I. G. Abel , I. Haber , P. G. O'Shea , B. L. Beaudoin

We consider the long-time behavior of solutions to the two dimensional non-homogeneous Euler equations under the Boussinesq approximation posed on a periodic channel. We study the linearized system near a linearly stratified Couette flow…

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We study the behavior of perturbations in a compressible one-dimensional inviscid gas with an ambient state consisting of constant pressure and periodically-varying density. We show through asymptotic analysis that long-wavelength…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-27 David I. Ketcheson , Giovanni Russo

We extend the formalism of the statistical theory developed for the 2D Euler equation to the case of shallow water system. Relaxation equations towards the maximum entropy state are proposed, which provide a parametrization of sub-grid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. H. Chavanis , J. Sommeria

We consider a non acoustic chain of harmonic oscillators with the dynamics perturbed by a random local exchange of momentum, such that energy and momentum are conserved. The macroscopic limits of the energy density, momentum and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Tomasz Komorowski , Stefano Olla

Linear stability of a plane shock waves in ultrarelativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics is investigated. The properties of the amplitudes of perturbations of physical quantities are studied depending on the components of the wave vector of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-21 Aleksandr Kovalenko

We develop a general approach to the description of dispersive shock waves (DSWs) for a class of nonlinear wave equations with a nonlocal Benjamin-Ono type dispersion term involving the Hilbert transform. Integrability of the governing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-03-06 G. A. El , L. T. K. Nguyen , N. F. Smyth

It is shown that the generalized discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation can be reduced in a small amplitude approximation to the KdV, mKdV, KdV(2) or the fifth-order KdV equations, depending on values of the parameters. In dispersionless…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 A. M. Kamchatnov , A. Spire , V. V. Konotop

The aim of this article is to study the limiting behavior of the solutions for the scaled generalized Euler equations of compressible fluid flow. When the initial data is of Riemann type, we showed the existence of solution which consists…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Manas Ranjan Sahoo , Abhrojyoti Sen

We study the dynamics of shock-tracking probe particles in driven diffusive systems and also in equilibrium systems. In a driven system, they induce a diverging timescale that marks the crossover between a passive scalar regime at early…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sakuntala Chatterjee , Mustansir Barma

Hamilton's principle plays a central role in fluid mechanics as a fundamental tool for deriving governing equations, analyzing conservation laws, and designing structure-preserving numerical schemes. However, its classical formulation is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 François Gay-Balmaz , Cheng Yang

In the hydrodynamic theory, the non-equilibrium dynamics of a many-body system is approximated, at large scales of space and time, by irreversible relaxation to local entropy maximisation. This results in a convective equation corrected by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Friedrich Hübner , Leonardo Biagetti , Jacopo De Nardis , Benjamin Doyon

The quantum dynamics of a simplest dissipative system, a particle moving in a constant external field , is exactly studied by taking into account its interaction with a bath of Ohmic spectral density. We apply the main idea and methods…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-17 Sun , C. P , L. H. Yu

We study the scattering of the quantized electromagnetic field from a linear, dispersive dielectric using the scattering formalism for quantum fields. The medium is modeled as a collection of harmonic oscillators with a number of distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Mark Hillery , Peter D. Drummond

In this article, I study the diffusive behavior for a quantum test particle interacting with a dilute background gas. The model I begin with is a reduced picture for the test particle dynamics given by a quantum linear Boltzmann equation in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jeremy Clark

We study the dispersive properties of a linear equation in one spatial dimension which is inspired by models in peridynamics. The interplay between nonlocality and dispersion is analyzed in detail through the study of the asymptotics at low…

We extend beyond the Euler scales the hydrodynamic theory for quantum and classical integrable models developed in recent years, accounting for diffusive dynamics and local entropy production. We review how the diffusive scale can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Jacopo De Nardis , Denis Bernard , Benjamin Doyon

We model the diffusive shock acceleration of particles in a system of two colliding shock waves and present a method to solve the time-dependent problem analytically in the test-particle approximation and high energy limit. In particular,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Thibault Vieu , Stefano Gabici , Vincent Tatischeff

In this paper, we derive the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations for electronic two-band systems in arbitrary dimension and with generic power-law dispersion relations. We focus on the hydrodynamic transport regime, where such systems offer a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-28 E. Di Salvo , P. Cosme , L. Fritz