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Two-dimensional reductions of the KP-Whitham system, namely the overdetermined Whitham modulation system for five dependent variables that describe the periodic solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation, are studied and…
The nonlinear Schroedinger equation has several families of quasi-periodic travelling waves, each of which can be parametrized up to symmetries by two real numbers: the period of the modulus of the wave profile, and the variation of its…
The nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is widely used as an approximate model for the evolution in time of the water wave envelope. In the context of simulating ocean waves, initial conditions are typically generated from a measured power…
Multi-time wave functions are wave functions that have a time variable for every particle, such as $\phi(t_1,x_1,\ldots,t_N,x_N)$. They arise as a relativistic analog of the wave functions of quantum mechanics but can be applied also in…
The semi-classical Korteweg-deVries equation for step-like data is considered with a small parameter in front of the highest derivative. Using perturbation analysis Whitham theory is constructed to higher order. This allows the order one…
Whitham modulation theory for certain two-dimensional evolution equations of Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) type is presented. Three specific examples are considered in detail: the KP equation, the two-dimensional Benjamin-Ono (2DBO) equation…
In this paper, we consider the nonlinear fractional Schr\"odinger equations with Hartree type nonlinearity. We obtain the existence of standing waves by studying the related constrained minimization problems by applying the…
We prove wave breaking --- bounded solutions with unbounded derivatives --- in the nonlinear nonlocal equation which combines the dispersion relation of water waves and a nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, provided that the slope…
We study propagation of phase space singularities for the initial value Cauchy problem for a class of Schr\"odinger equations. The Hamiltonian is the Weyl quantization of a quadratic form whose real part is non-negative. The equations are…
We establish nonlinear stability and asymptotic behavior of traveling periodic waves of viscous conservation laws under localized perturbations or nonlocalized perturbations asymptotic to constant shifts in phase, showing that long-time…
The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of small-amplitude, unidirectional waves of all wavelengths on shallow water. It has been shown to accurately model the evolution of waves in laboratory experiments. We compute…
We are concerned with numerical approximations of breather solutions for the cubic Whitham equation which arises as a water-wave model for interfacial waves. The model combines strong nonlinearity with the non-local character of the…
This is the second part of a two-paper series studying the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with quasi-periodic initial data. In this paper, we focus on the quasi-periodic Cauchy problem for the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation.…
This paper investigates the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a singular convolution potential. It demonstrates the local well-posedness of this equation in a modified Sobolev space linked to the energy. Additionally, we derive…
We consider the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on $\mathbb{R}^2$, $iu_t + u_{xx} + u_{yy} + \lambda|u|^\sigma u =0$, $\lambda\in \mathbb{R}$, $\sigma>0$. We introduce new functional spaces over which the initial…
In this paper, we prove the global existence of H\"older continuous solutions for the Cauchy problem of a family of partial differential equations, named as $\lambda$-family equations, where $\lambda$ is the power of nonlinear wave speed.…
We prove the existence of a new type of solutions to a nonlinear Schr\"odinger system. These solutions, which we call "multi-speeds solitary waves", are behaving at large time as a couple of scalar solitary waves traveling at different…
In this work, modulation of periodic interfacial waves on a conduit of viscous liquid is explored utilizing Whitham theory and Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) theory. Large amplitude periodic wave modulation theory does not require…
Assuming initial data have small weighted $H^4\times H^3$ norm, we prove global existence of solutions to the Cauchy problem for systems of quasi-linear wave equations in three space dimensions satisfying the null condition of Klainerman.…
In this paper, we complement recent results of Bronski and Johnson and of Johnson and Zumbrun concerning the modulational stability of spatially periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation. In this…