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In this manuscript we first give the explicit variational structure of the nonlinear elastic waves for isotropic, homogeneous, hyperelastic materials in 2-D. Based on this variational structure, we suggest a null condition which is a kind…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-25 Dongbing Zha

We discuss the behavior of solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (NLSE) as they interact with complex potentials, using a four parameter variational approximation based on a dissipation functional formulation of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-21 Franz G. Mertens , Fred Cooper , Edward Arevalo , Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena , A. R. Bishop

A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with variable coefficients for surface waves on a large-scale steady nonuniform current has been derived without the assumption of a relative smallness of the velocity of the current. This equation can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-14 V. P. Ruban

We investigate the relation between pluri-Lagrangian hierarchies of $2$-dimensional partial differential equations and their variational symmetries. The aim is to generalize to the case of partial differential equations the recent findings…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-12-17 Matteo Petrera , Mats Vermeeren

Long-range e.g. Coulomb-like interactions for (quantized) topological charges are observed experimentally in liquid crystals, bringing open question this article is exploring: how far can we take this resemblance with particle physics?…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-14 Jarek Duda

We are concerned with underlying connections between fluids, elasticity, isometric embedding of Riemannian manifolds, and the existence of wrinkled solutions of the associated nonlinear partial differential equations. In this paper, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Amit Acharya , Gui-Qiang Chen , Siran Li , Marshall Slemrod , Dehua Wang

This is a study of the Euler equations for free surface water waves in the case of varying bathymetry, considering the problem in the shallow water scaling regime. In the case of rapidly varying periodic bottom boundaries this is a problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Walter Craig , David Lannes , Catherine Sulem

We consider nematic liquid crystals in a bounded, convex polyhedron described by a director field n(r) subject to tangent boundary conditions. We derive lower bounds for the one-constant elastic energy in terms of topological invariants.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A Majumdar , JM Robbins , M Zyskin

We develop a variational technique for some wide classes of nonlinear evolutions. The novelty here is that we derive the main information directly from the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations. In particular, we prove that not only the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-09 Arkady Poliakovsky

We consider the Poiseuille flow of nematic liquid crystals via the full Ericksen-Leslie model. The model is described by a coupled system consisting of a heat equation and a quasilinear wave equation. In this paper, we will construct an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Geng Chen , Majed Sofiani

The variational principle and the corresponding differential equation for geodesic circles in two dimensional (pseudo)-Riemannian space are being discovered. The relationship with the physical notion of uniformly accelerated relativistic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-25 Roman Ya. Matsyuk

The direct method based on the definition of conserved currents of a system of differential equations is applied to compute the space of conservation laws of the (1+1)-dimensional wave equation in the light-cone coordinates. Then Noether's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Roman O. Popovych , Alexei F. Cheviakov

We show that symmetric and positive profiles of ground-state standing-wave of the non-linear Schr\"odinger equation are non-degenerate and unique up to a translation of the argument and multiplication by complex numbers in the unit sphere.…

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We investigate the qualitative dynamics of smooth solutions to the radially symmetric isentropic compressible Euler equations, focusing specifically on the evolution of rarefactive and compressive wave characters across three distinct…

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After a brief introduction to several variational problems in the study of shapes of thin thickness structures, we deal with variational problems on 2-dimensional surface in 3-dimensional Euclidian space by using exterior differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. C. Tu , Z. C. Ou-Yang

We study a simplified system of the original Ericksen--Leslie equations for the flow of nematic liquid crystals. This is a coupled non-parabolic dissipative dynamic system. We show the convergence of global classical solutions to single…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-04 Hao Wu

This paper is concerned with the Riemann problem of one-dimensional Euler equations with a singular source. The exact solution of this Riemann problem contains a stationary discontinuity induced by the singular source, which is different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Changsheng Yu , Tiegang Liu , Chengliang Feng

Whether singularities can form in fluids remains a foundational unanswered question in mathematics. This phenomenon occurs when solutions to governing equations, such as the 3D Euler equations, develop infinite gradients from smooth initial…

This paper is devoted to the study of solitary waves and solitons whose existence is related to the ratio energy/charge. These solitary waves are called hylomorphic. This class includes the Q-balls, which are spherically symmetric solutions…

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