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This paper sets out to explore the modulational (or Benjamin-Feir) instability of a monochromatic wave propagating in the presence of damping such as that induced by sea-ice on the ocean surface. The fundamental wave motion is modelled…

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This paper studies finite-time stability and instability theorems in probability sense for stochastic nonlinear systems. Firstly, a new sufficient condition is proposed to guarantee that the considered system has a global solution.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Weihai Zhang , Liqiang Yao

We consider Gaussian random waves on hyperbolic spaces and establish variance asymptotics and central limit theorems for a large class of their integral functionals, both in the high-frequency and large domain limits. Our strategy of proof…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Francesco Grotto , Giovanni Peccati

The problem of interest in this article are waves on a layer of finite depth governed by the Euler equations in the presence of gravity, surface tension, and vertical electric fields. Perturbation theory is used to identify canonical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-13 Matthew Hunt , Emilian Parau , Jean-Marc Vanden-broeck , Demetrios Papageorgiou

Nonlinear hydroelastic waves along a compressed ice sheet lying on top of a two-dimensional fluid of infinite depth are investigated. Based on a Hamiltonian formulation of this problem and by applying techniques from Hamiltonian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Philippe Guyenne , Adilbek Kairzhan , Catherine Sulem

The problem of propagating nonlinear acoustic waves is considered; the solution to which, both with and without damping, having been obtained to-date starting from the Navier-Stokes-Duhem equations together with the continuity and thermal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Markus Scholle

We study the modulational instability of smooth, small-amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions to the $b$-family of Novikov equation with cubic nonlinearity with an arbitrary coefficient $b>0$. Our approach is based on applying spectral…

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Maslov indices are integers that appear in semiclassical wave functions and quantization conditions. They are often notoriously difficult to compute. We present methods of computing the Maslov index that rely only on typically elementary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-19 Ilya Esterlis , Hal M. Haggard , Austin Hedeman , Robert G. Littlejohn

The generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with full dispersion (FDNLS) is considered in the semiclassical regime. The Whitham modulation equations are obtained for the FDNLS equation with general linear dispersion and a generalized,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-09-26 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer , Boaz Ilan

We study the properties of the asymptotic Maslov index of invariant measures for time-periodic Hamiltonian systems on the cotangent bundle of a compact manifold M. We show that if M has finite fundamental group and the Hamiltonian satisfies…

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We consider the Ostrovsky and short pulse models in a symmetric spatial interval, subject to periodic boundary conditions. For the Ostrovsky case, we revisit the classical periodic traveling waves and for the short pulse model, we…

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Solitary waves in a general nonlinear lattice are discussed, employing as a model the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a spatially periodic nonlinear coefficient. An asymptotic theory is developed for long solitary waves, that span a…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-05 Guenbo Hwang , T. R. Akylas , Jianke Yang

We study the stability of a four parameter family of spatially periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation to two classes of perturbations: periodic perturbations with the same periodic structure as…

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We extend a result on renormalized oscillation theory, originally derived for Sturm-Liouville and Dirac-type operators on arbitrary intervals in the context of scalar coefficients, to the case of general Hamiltonian systems with block…

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A noisy damping parameter in the equation of motion of a nonlinear oscillator renders the fixed point of the system unstable when the amplitude of the noise is sufficiently large. However, the stability diagram of the system can not be…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Nicolas Leprovost , Sébatien Aumaitre , Kirone Mallick

The paper deals with the problem of existence of a convergent "strong" normal form in the neighbourhood of an equilibrium, for a finite dimensional system of differential equations with analytic and time-dependent non-linear term. The…

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Nonlinear wave propagation is studied analytically in a dissipative, self-gravitating Bose Einstein condensate, in the framework of Gross-Pitaevskii model. The linear dispersion relation shows that the effect of dissipation is to suppress…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-27 Biswajit Sahu , Anjana Sinha , R. Roychoudhury

Traveling waves in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates whose dynamics is described by the Manakov limit of the Gross-Pitaevskii equations are considered in general situation with relative motion of the components when their chemical…

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