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In this article we study the spectral, linear and nonlinear stability of stationary shock profile solutions to the Lax-Wendroff scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws. We first clarify the spectral stability of such solutions depending on…

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This study analyzes steady periodic hydroelastic waves propagating on the water surface of finite depth beneath nonlinear elastic membranes. Unlike previous work \cite{BaldiT,BaldiT1,Toland,Toland1}, our formulation accommodates rotational…

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Discrete nonlinear systems support a rich variety of localized and extended wave phenomena, with their dynamics sensitively dependent on the symmetries of the underlying interaction forces within the lattice. Odd elasticity, emerging in…

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Scroll waves are three-dimensional analogs of spiral waves. The linear stability spectrum of untwisted and twisted scroll waves is computed for a two-variable reaction-diffusion model of an excitable medium. Different bands of modes are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Herve Henry , Vincent Hakim

The focusing critical wave equation in three dimensions exhibits a special class of static solutions which are linearly unstable. These solutions decay like an inverse first power. We construct small codimension one stable manifolds in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joachim Krieger , Wilhelm Schlag

A third order parabolic operator L_\epsilon typical of a non linear wave operator cal L_0 perturbed by viscous terms, is analyzed. Some particular solutions related to L_0 are explicitly determined and the initial value problem for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 M. De Angelis , E. Mazziotti

We identify a new type of pattern formation in spatially distributed active systems. We simulate one-dimensional two-component systems with predator-prey local interaction and pursuit-evasion taxis between the components. In a sufficiently…

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Motivated by the analysis of the propagation of internal waves in a stratified ocean, we consider in this article the incompressible Euler equations with variable density in a flat strip, and we study the evolution of perturbations of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Benoit Desjardins , David Lannes , Jean-Claude Saut

This paper explores the exponential stability of two nonlinear wave equations coupled through their velocities. The analysis is divided into two main cases. First, we consider a system where one equation is damped, while the other…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Alhabib Moumni , Cristina Pignotti , Jawad Salhi , Mouhcine Tilioua

We investigate the stability of traveling front solutions to nonlinear diffusive-dispersive equations of Burgers type, with a primary focus on the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers (KdVB) equation, although our analytical findings extend more…

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In this work we revisit a classical problem of traveling waves in a damped Frenkel-Kontorova lattice driven by a constant external force. We compute these solutions as fixed points of a nonlinear map and obtain the corresponding kinetic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-04 A. Vainchtein , J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , H. Xu

We consider the damped hyperbolic equation in one space dimension $\epsilon u_{tt} + u_t = u_{xx} + F(u)$, where $\epsilon$ is a positive, not necessarily small parameter. We assume that $F(0)=F(1)=0$ and that $F$ is concave on the interval…

patt-sol · Physics 2007-05-23 Th. Gallay , G. Raugel

We consider the problem of dynamical stability for the $n$-vortex of the Ginzburg-Landau model. Vortices are one of the main examples of topological solitons, and their dynamic stability is the basic assumption of the asymptotic ``particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-09 José M. Palacios , Fabio Pusateri

In this article we are concerned with the existence and orbital stability of traveling wave solutions of a general class of nonlocal wave equations: $ u_{tt}-Lu_{xx}=B(\pm |u|^{p-1}u)_{xx}$, $ p>1$. The main characteristic of this class of…

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Localization of waves by disorder is a fundamental physical problem encompassing a diverse spectrum of theoretical, experimental and numerical studies in the context of metal-insulator transition, quantum Hall effect, light propagation in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-06 Sergej Flach

Under natural spectral stability assumptions motivated by previous investigations of the associated spectral stability problem, we determine sharp $L^p$ estimates on the linearized solution operator about a multidimensional planar periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Myunghyun Oh , Kevin Zumbrun

We are concerned with rigorous mathematical analysis of shock diffraction by two-dimensional convex cornered wedges in compressible fluid flow governed by the nonlinear wave system. This shock diffraction problem can be formulated as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Xuemei Deng , Wei Xiang

Ill posed linear and nonlinear initial value problems may be stabilized, that it converted to to well posed initial value problems, by the addition of purely nonscalar linear dispersive terms. This is a stability analog of the Turing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Guy Metivier , Jeffrey Rauch

We study nonlinear stability of pulled fronts in scalar parabolic equations on the real line of arbitrary order, under conceptual assumptions on existence and spectral stability of fronts. In this general setting, we establish sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Montie Avery , Arnd Scheel

In this paper we focus on a discrete physical model describing granular crystals, whose equations of motion can be described by a system of differential difference equations (DDEs). After revisiting earlier continuum approximations, we…

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