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We theoretically describe the quasi one-dimensional transverse spreading of a light pulse propagating in a nonlinear optical material in the presence of a uniform background light intensity. For short propagation distances the pulse can be…

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Extracting governing physical laws from computational or experimental data is crucial across various fields such as fluid dynamics and plasma physics. Many of those physical laws are dissipative due to fluid viscosity or plasma collisions.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Yubin Lu , Xiaofan Li , Chun Liu , Qi Tang , Yiwei Wang

Here, the perturbation equation for a dissipative medium is derived from the first principle from the linearized compressible Navier-Stokes equation without Stokes's hypothesis. The dispersion relations of this generic governing equation…

We present and explore a new shock-capturing particle hydrodynamics approach. Our starting point is a commonly used discretization of smoothed particle hydrodynamics. We enhance this discretization with Roe's approximate Riemann solver, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 S. Rosswog

In this article we study the so-called water tank system. In this system, the behavior of water contained in a 1-D tank is modelled by Saint-Venant equations, with a scalar distributed control. It is well-known that the linearized systems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Jean-Michel Coron , Amaury Hayat , Shengquan Xiang , Christophe Zhang

This note aims at the following problem. In an ideal density dependent fluid system, is the total energy dissipated on shock type discontinuities? To this end, we study the local energy balance for weak solutions to the isentropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Marco Inversi

The driven, cylindrical, free interface between two miscible, Stokes fluids with high viscosity contrast have been shown to exhibit dispersive hydrodynamics. A hallmark feature of dispersive hydrodynamic media is the dispersive resolution…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-08-20 Dalton V. Anderson , Michelle D. Maiden , Mark A. Hoefer

Diffusing-wave spectroscopy is a powerful technique which consists in measuring the temporal correlation function of the intensity of light multiply scattered by a medium. In this paper, we apply this technique to cold atoms under purely…

We study the formation and dynamics of shock waves initiated by a repulsive potential in a superfluid unitary Fermi gas by using the order-parameter equation. In the theoretical framework, the regularization process of shock waves mediated…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-03 Wen Wen , Tiankun Shui , Yafei Shan , Changping Zhu

The propagation of incoherent elastic energy in a three-dimensional solid due to the scattering by many, randomly placed and oriented, pinned dislocation segments, is considered in a continuum mechanics framework. The scattering mechanism…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-20 Dmitry Churochkin , Fernando Lund

We show the relevance of the dispersive analogue of the shock waves in the FPU dynamics. In particular we give strict numerical evidences that metastable states emerging from low frequency initial excitations, are indeed constituted by…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Lorenzoni , Simone Paleari

This article presents a theoretical study of the scaling properties of the kinetic energy spectrum in compressible turbulence. From the fundamental symmetries and linear transformations of the microscopic action, we derive exact relations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-16 Olivier Coquand

It has long been a standard practice to neglect diffusive effects in stability analyses of detonation waves. Here, with the principal aim of quantifying the impact of these oft-neglected effects on the stability characteristics of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Blake Barker , Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

In this paper, we study one-dimensional linear Schr\"odinger equations with multiple moving potentials, known as transfer charge models. Focusing on the non-self-adjoint setting that arises in the study of solitons, we systematically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Gong Chen , Abdon Moutinho

In this study, we investigate the dispersive properties of smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (SPM) in a strongly magnetized medium by using linear analysis. In modern SPM, a correction term proportional to the divergence of the…

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We investigate the three-dimensional compressible Euler-Maxwell system, a model for simulating the transport of electrons interacting with propagating electromagnetic waves in semiconductor devices. First, we show the global well-posedness…

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Except for the universe, all quantum systems are open, and according to quantum state diffusion theory, many systems localize to wave packets in the neighborhood of phase space points. This is due to decoherence from the interaction with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Todd A. Brun , Ian C. Percival , Rüdiger Schack

Split form schemes for Euler and Navier-Stokes equations are useful for computation of turbulent flows due to their better robustness. This is because they satisfy additional conservation properties of the governing equations like kinetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-03 Vikram Singh , Praveen Chandrashekar

The properties of a quantum dissipative scalar field is analyzed by Caldeira-Leggett model in strong-coupling regime. The Lagrangian of the total system is canonically quantized and the full Hamiltonian is diagonalized using Fano technique.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Marjan Jafari , Fardin Kheirandish

We analyze statistical probability distributions of intensities collected by diffraction techniques like Low-Energy Electron Diffraction. A simple theoretical model based in hard-sphere potentials and LEED formalism is investigated for…

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