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We interpret the forward Maxwell equation with up to third order induced polarizations and get so called nonlinear wave equation in frequency domain (NWEF), which is based on Maxwell wave equation and using slowly varying spectral amplitude…

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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

In the present treatise, a stability analysis of the bottom boundary layer under solitary waves based on energy bounds and nonmodal theory is performed. The instability mechanism of this flow consists of a competition between streamwise…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-25 Joris C. G. Verschaeve , Geir K. Pedersen , Cameron Tropea

We obtain a general solution for the probability density function of wave intensities in non-stationary Wave Turbulence. The solution is expressed in terms of the wave action spectrum evolving according the the wave-kinetic equation. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yeontaek Choi , Young-Sam Kwon , Sanggyu Jo , Sergey Nazarenko

We study the evolution of nonlinear surface gravity water-wave packets developing from modulational instability over an uneven bottom. A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) with coefficients varying in space along propagation is used as…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-04 Andrea Armaroli , Alexis Gomel , Amin Chabchoub , Maura Brunetti , Jérôme Kasparian

At a horizontally homogeneous isothermal atmosphere approximation, we derive an ordinary six-order differential equation describing linear disturbances with consideration for heat conductivity and viscosity of medium. The wave problem may…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 G. V. Rudenko

We prove that traveling waves in viscous compressible liquids are a generic phenomenon. The setting for our result is a horizontally infinite, finite depth layer of compressible, barotropic, viscous fluid, modeled by the free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Noah Stevenson , Ian Tice

Gravitational waves sourced by amplified scalar perturbations are a common prediction across a wide range of cosmological models. These scalar curvature fluctuations are inherently nonlinear and typically non-Gaussian. We argue that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 A. J. Iovino , S. Matarrese , G. Perna , A. Ricciardone , A. Riotto

In this note, we announce a general result resolving the long-standing question of nonlinear modulational stability, or stability with respect to localized perturbations, of periodic traveling-wave solutions of the generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-22 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

In this work, starting by suitable superpositions of equal-frequency Bessel beams, we develop a theoretical and experimental methodology to obtain localized stationary wave fields, with high transverse localization, whose longitudinal…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Zamboni-Rached , E. Recami , H. E. Hernandez-Figueroa

This paper considers two-dimensional steady solitary waves with constant vorticity propagating under the influence of gravity over an impermeable flat bed. Unlike in previous works on solitary waves, we allow for both internal stagnation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Susanna V. Haziot , Miles. H. Wheeler

We prove an asymptotic stability result for the water wave equations linearized around small solitary waves. The equations we consider govern irrotational flow of a fluid with constant density bounded below by a rigid horizontal bottom and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-03 Robert L. Pego , Shu-Ming Sun

In this paper, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs) produced by remote compact astrophysical sources. To describe such GWs properly, we introduce three scales, $\lambda, \; L_c$ and $L$, denoting, respectively, the typical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jared Fier , Xiongjun Fang , Bowen Li , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang , Tao Zhu

The viscously dominated, low Reynolds' number dynamics of multi-phase, compacting media can lead to nonlinear, dissipationless/dispersive behavior when viewed appropriately. In these systems, nonlinear self-steepening competes with wave…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-01-31 Nicholas K. Lowman , Mark A. Hoefer

A general linear gauge-invariant equation for dispersive gravitational waves (GWs) propagating in matter is derived. This equation describes, on the same footing, both the usual tensor modes and the gravitational modes strongly coupled with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-12 Deepen Garg , I. Y. Dodin

We consider a system of equations for the description of nonlinear waves in a liquid with gas bubbles. Taking into account high order terms with respect to a small parameter, we derive a new nonlinear partial differential equation for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-14 Nikolay A. Kudryashov , Dmitry I. Sinelshchikov , Alexander K. Volkov

A one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate may experience nonlinear periodic modulations known as "cnoidal waves". We argue that such structures represent promising candidates for the study of supersolidity-related phenomena in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-17 Giovanni I. Martone , Alessio Recati , Nicolas Pavloff

We present a comprehensive study of MHD waves and instabilities in a weakly ionised system, e.g., an interstellar molecular cloud. We determine all the critical wavelengths of perturbations across which the sustainable wave modes can change…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-01 Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias , Glenn E. Ciolek , S. A. Morton

Using a matched asymptotic expansion we analyze the two-dimensional, near- critical reflection of a weakly nonlinear, internal gravity wave from a sloping boundary in a uniformly stratified fluid. Taking a distinguished limit in which the…

patt-sol · Physics 2017-05-17 T. Dauxois , W. R. Young

We employ multiple-scale analysis to systematically derive analytical approximations describing the cosmological propagation of gravitational waves beyond general relativity, in a framework with two interacting spin-2 fields with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Marco de Cesare , Mairi Sakellariadou , Benjamin Sutton