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This article is concerned with the mathematical analysis of a class of a nonlinear fractional Schrodinger equations with a general Hartree-type integrand. We prove existence and uniqueness of global-in-time solutions to the associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Y. Cho , M. M. Fall , H. Hajaiej , P. A. Markowich , S. Trabelsi

The Whitham equation is a nonlocal, nonlinear partial differential equation that models the temporal evolution of spatial profiles of surface displacement of water waves. However, many laboratory and field measurements record time series at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 John D. Carter , Diane Henderson , Panayotis Panayotaros

Whitham modulation theory describes the zero dispersion limit of nonlinear waves by a system of conservation laws for the parameters of modulated periodic traveling waves. Here, admissible, discontinuous, weak solutions of the Whitham…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-24 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer

We prove that the modulational instability criterion of the formal Whitham modulation theory agrees with the spectral stability of long wavelength perturbations of periodic travelling wave solutions to the generalized Whitham equation. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-02 William A. Clarke , Robert Marangell , Wesley R. Perkins

The travelling wave problem for a particular bidirectional Whitham system modelling surface water waves is under consideration. This system firstly appeared in [Dinvay, Dutykh, Kalisch 2018], where it was numerically shown to be stable and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Evgueni Dinvay , Dag Nilsson

Recently, two different proofs for large and intermediate-size solitary waves of the nonlocally dispersive Whitham equation have been presented, using either global bifurcation theory or the limit of waves of large period. We give here a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Mathias Nikolai Arnesen , Mats Ehrnstrom , Atanas G. Stefanov

In the present contribution we investigate some features of dynamical lattice systems near periodic traveling waves. First, following the formal averaging method of Whitham, we derive modulation systems expected to drive at main order the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Bugra Kabil , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

The behavior of solutions of the finite-genus Whitham equations for the weak dispersion limit of the defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation is investigated analytically and numerically for piecewise-constant initial data. In particular,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 Gino Biondini , Yuji Kodama

The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of surface waves on shallow water that combines the unidirectional linear dispersion relation of the Euler equations with a weakly nonlinear approximation based on the KdV equation. We show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 John D. Carter , Marc Francius , Christian Kharif , Henrik Kalisch , Malek Abid

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

In this paper, we study a nonlocal nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (MMT model). We investigate the effect of the nonlocal operator appearing in the nonlinearity on the long-term behavior of solutions, and we identify the conditions under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Amin Esfahani , Gulcin M. Muslu

A regularized Boussinesq equation is studied as a dispersive, long-wave (quasicontinuum) approximation of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice with a general cubic interaction force. Explicit periodic traveling wave solutions in terms of Jacobi…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-14 Mark A. Hoefer , Anna Vainchtein

The study of hyperbolic waves involves various notions which help characterise how these structures evolve. One important facet is the notion of \emph{genuine nonlinearity}, namely the ability for shocks and rarefactions to form instead of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Daniel James Ratliff

We present a new approach for search of coexisting classes of localised modes admitted by the repulsive (defocusing) scalar or vector nonlinear Schr\"odinger-type equations. The approach is based on the observation that generic solutions of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-04-10 G. L. Alfimov , I. V. Barashenkov , A. P. Fedotov , V. V. Smirnov , D. A. Zezyulin

We show existence of small solitary and periodic traveling-wave solutions in Sobolev spaces ${\mathrm{H}^s}$, ${ s > 0 }$, to a class of nonlinear, dispersive evolution equations of the form \begin{equation*} u_t + \left(Lu+ n(u)\right)_x =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Fredrik Hildrum

We consider the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a potential in one space dimension. Under the assumptions that the potential is generic, sufficiently localized, and does not have bound states, we obtain the long time asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Pierre Germain , Fabio Pusateri , Frederic Rousset

We derive the Whitham modulation equations for the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation via a multiple scales expansion and averaging two conservation laws over one oscillation period of its periodic traveling wave solutions. We then use the Whitham…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-11-12 Gino Biondini , Alexander Chernyavsky

We study the Cauchy problem for the Whitham modulation equations for monotone increasing smooth initial data. The Whitham equations are a collection of one-dimensional quasi-linear hyperbolic systems. This collection of systems is…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Grava

We consider the nonlinear wave modulation of arbitrary amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions of the Ostrovsky equation, which arises as a model for the unidirectional propagation of small-amplitude, weakly nonlinear surface and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Mathew A. Johnson , Jeffrey Oregero , Wesley R. Perkins

Using similarity transformations we construct explicit nontrivial solutions of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with potentials and nonlinearities depending on time and on the spatial coordinates. We present the general theory and use it…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Juan Belmonte-Beitia , Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Vadym Vekslerchik , Vladimir V. Konotop