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We investigate nonlinear periodic and solitary two-dimensional rolling waves in a falling two-layer liquid film in the regime of non-zero Reynolds numbers. At any flow rate, a falling two-layer liquid film is known to be linearly unstable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-28 Andrey Pototsky , Ivan S. Maksymov

We study the waves at the interface between two thin horizontal layers of immiscible fluids subject to high-frequency horizontal vibrations. Previously, the variational principle for energy functional, which can be adopted for treatment of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-22 Denis S. Goldobin , Anastasiya V. Pimenova , Kseniya V. Kovalevskaya , Dmitry V. Lyubimov , Tatyana P. Lyubimova

In this paper, we propose a numerical framework to study the shapes, dynamics and the stabilities of the self-localized solutions of the nonlinear wave blocking problem. With this motivation, we use the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-16 Cihan Bayindir

In this paper we consider the spectral and nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of a generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. In particular, we resolve the long-standing question of nonlinear modulational stability by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Blake Barker , Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

Building on a previous study that analyses surface waves in magnetic slabs embedded in a non-magnetic external environment, in this study the model is generalised and external magnetic fields are added. The slab is assumed to be thin, with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 William Oxley , Noémi Kinga Zsámberger , Róbert Erdélyi

We use the helicoidal Peyrard-Bishop model of DNA in the current work. We solve a dynamical equation of motion using a continuum approximation, resulting in kink-solitary waves that travel along the chain. We demonstrate that, whereas…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Anna Batova , Dragana Ranković , Slobodan Zdravković

We aim to study the standing fundamental kink mode of coronal loops in the nonlinear regime, investigating the changes in energy evolution in the cross-section and oscillation amplitude of the loop which are related to nonlinear effects, in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-02 N. Magyar , T. Van Doorsselaere

The role of short-wave instabilities on geostrophic turbulence is studied in a simplified model consisting of three layers in the quasi-geostrophic approximation. The linear stability analysis shows that short-wave instabilities are created…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-21 Gualtiero Badin

In this paper, we investigate the wave solutions of a stochastic rotating shallow water model. This approximate model provides an interesting simple description of the interplay between waves and random forcing ensuing either from the wind…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-02 Etienne Mémin , Long Li , Noé Lahaye , Gilles Tissot , Bertrand Chapron

This paper presents a novel methodology for the direct numerical modeling and simulation of turbulent flows. The kinetic model equation is firstly extended to turbulent flow with the account of coupled evolution of kinetic, thermal, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

The purpose of this paper is to prove that, for a large class of nonlinear evolution equations known as scalar viscous balance laws, the spectral (linear) instability condition of periodic traveling wave solutions implies their orbital…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Enrique Álvarez , Jaime Angulo Pava , Ramón G. Plaza

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

A nonlinear Schrodinger equation arising from light propagation down an inhomogeneous medium is considered. The inhomogeneity is reflected through a non-uniform coefficient of the non-linear term in the equation. In particular, a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Marangell , C. K. R. T. Jones , H. Susanto

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

To show that steadily propagating nonlinear waves in active matter can be driven internally, we develop a prototypical model of a topological kink moving with a constant supersonic speed. We use a model of a bi-stable mass-spring (FPU)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-01 Nikolai Gorbushin , Lev Truskinovsky

Two-dimensional free-surface flow over localised topography is examined with the emphasis on the stability of hydraulic-fall solutions. A Gaussian topography profile is assumed with a positive or negative amplitude modelling a bump or a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jack S. Keeler , Mark G. Blyth

The modulational instability and discrete matter wave solitons in dipolar BEC, loaded into a deep optical lattice, are investigated analytically and numerically. The process of modulational instability of nonlinear plane matter waves in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Rojas-Rojas , R. A. Vicencio , M. I. Molina , F. Kh. Abdullaev

A large class of multidimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equations admit localized nonradial standing wave solutions that carry nonzero intrinsic angular momentum. Here we provide evidence that certain of these spinning excitations are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert L. Pego , Henry A. Warchall

We study experimentally, in a large-scale basin, the propagation of unidirectional deep water gravity waves stochastically modulated in phase. We observe the emergence of nonlinear localized structures that evolve on a stochastic wave…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-10-19 A Cazaubiel , G. Michel , S Lepot , B Semin , S Aumaître , M Berhanu , Félicien Bonnefoy , Eric Falcon