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We investigate velocity statistics of homogeneous inelastic gases using the Boltzmann equation. Employing an approximate uniform collision rate, we obtain analytic results valid in arbitrary dimension. In the freely evolving case, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

Considering a gas of self-propelled particles with binary interactions, we derive the hydrodynamic equations governing the density and velocity fields from the microscopic dynamics, in the framework of the associated Boltzmann equation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-09 Eric Bertin , Michel Droz , Guillaume Grégoire

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

The one-dimensional piston shock problem is a classical result of shock wave theory. In this work, the analogous dispersive shock wave (DSW) problem for a dispersive fluid described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is analyzed.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-08-12 M. A. Hoefer , M. J. Ablowitz , P. Engels

We investigate the dynamics of an effectively one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with scattering length $a$ subjected to a spatially periodic modulation, $a=a(x)=a(x+L)$. This "collisionally inhomogeneous" BEC is described by a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Mason A. Porter , P. G. Kevrekidis , Boris A. Malomed , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We study the propagation of sound waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We find that the velocity of propagation of sound wavepackets decreases with increasing optical lattice depth, as predicted…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Menotti , M. Kramer , A. Smerzi , L. Pitaevskii , S. Stringari

Consider a linear Boltzmann equation posed on the Euclidian plane with a periodic system of circular holes and for particles moving at speed 1. Assuming that the holes are absorbing -- i.e. that particles falling in a hole remain trapped…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-26 Etienne Bernard , Emanuele Caglioti , Francois Golse

This paper studies the dynamical behavior near a new family of explicit self-similar solutions for the one dimensional Born-Infeld equation. This quasilinear scalar field equation arises from nonlinear electromagnetism, as well as branes in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Weiping Yan

We study exact solutions of the quasi-one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation with the (space, time)-modulated potential and nonlinearity and the time-dependent gain or loss term in Bose-Einstein condensates. In particular, based on…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-04-19 Zhenya Yan , Dongmei Jiang

We explore static and spherically symmetric solutions of the 4-dimensional semiclassical Einstein's equations using the quantum vacuum polarization of a conformal field as a source. These solutions may be of interest for \black{the study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-16 Pau Beltrán-Palau , Adrián del Río , José Navarro-Salas

In weak turbulence theory, the Kolmogorov-Zakharov spectra is a class of time-independent solutions to the kinetic wave equations. In this paper, we construct a new class of time-dependent isotropic solutions to the decaying turbulence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Avy Soffer , Minh-Binh Tran

In his 2007 monograph, D. Christodoulou proved a breakthrough result giving a detailed description of the formation of shocks in solutions to the relativistic Euler equations in three spatial dimensions. He assumed that the data have small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-24 Jared Speck

We considered the experimental realization of a Tamm medium that is optically equivalent to the collision of two linearly polarized gravitational plane waves as a piecewise homogeneous metamaterial. Our formulation was based on the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

We determine conditions under which a generic gauge invariant nonautonomous and inhomogeneous nonlinear partial differential equation in the two-dimensional space-time continuum can be transform into standard autonomous forms. In addition…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-19 Alex Mahalov , Sergei K. Suslov

We construct a generic asymptotic solution for modified gravity near a sudden singularity. This solution contains a fluid source with no equation of state and is function-counting stable, that is it has eleven independent arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 Ignatios Antoniadis , Spiros Cotsakis , Dimitrios Trachilis

A problem of self-energy and self-force for a charged point-like particle in a higher dimensional homogeneous gravitational field is considered. We study two cases, when a particle has usual electric charge and a case when it has a scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Valeri P. Frolov , Andrei Zelnikov

The Boltzmann-Nordheim equation is a modification of the Boltzmann equation, based on physical considerations, that describes the dynamics of the distribution of particles in a quantum gas composed of bosons or fermions. In this work we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Marc Briant , Amit Einav

In the present work we revisit the problem of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation parametrically, as a function of the relevant nonlinearity exponent, to examine the emergence of blow-up solutions, as traveling waveforms lose their…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-10-24 S. Jon Chapman , M. Kavousanakis , E. G. Charalampidis , I. G. Kevrekidis , P. G. Kevrekidis

A novel canonical Hamiltonian formalism is developed for long internal waves in a rotating environment. This includes the effects of background vorticity and shear on the waves. By restricting consideration to flows in hydrostatic balance,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuri V. Lvov , Esteban G. Tabak

The effective evolution of an inhomogeneous universe model in any theory of gravitation may be described in terms of spatially averaged variables. In Einstein's theory, restricting attention to scalar variables, this evolution can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Thomas Buchert