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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…

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The classical nonlinear oscillator, proposed by Mathews and Lakshmanan in 1974 and including a position-dependent mass in the kinetic energy term, is generalized in two different ways by adding an extra term to the potential. The solutions…

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We outline a general theory for the analysis of flow-distributed standing and travelling wave patterns in one-dimensional, open plug-flows of oscillatory chemical media. We treat both the amplitude and phase dynamics of small and…

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We prove the global stability of the Minkowski space viewed as the trivial solution of the Einstein-Vlasov system. To estimate the Vlasov field, we use the vector field and modified vector field techniques developed in [FJS15; FJS17]. In…

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Nonlinear waves in dispersive media can be succeptible to modulational instabilities. We examine a category of scalar equations, with general dispersion and monomial nonlinearity, including a large variety of KdV-like equations. For…

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We assume the macroscopic wave function of a Bose-Einstein condensate as a superposition of Gaussian wave packets, with time-dependent complex width parameters, insert it into the mean-field energy functional corresponding to the…

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We study the nonlinear stability of a large class of inhomogeneous steady state solutions to the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model. Under a simple criterion, we prove the nonlinear stability of steady states which are decreasing functions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Mohammed Lemou , Ana Maria Luz , Florian Mehats

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-20 H. A. Erbay , S. Erbay , A. Erkip

In this note, we report on recent findings concerning the spectral and nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of hyperbolic-parabolic systems of balance laws, as applied to the St. Venant equations of shallow water flow…

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Using the theory of $1+1$ hyperbolic systems we put in perspective the mathematical and geometrical structure of the celebrated circularly polarized waves solutions for isotropic hyperelastic materials determined by Carroll in Acta…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Giuseppe Saccomandi , Raffaele Vitolo

We analyze the Drinfeld-Sokolob-Wilson system, which features a dispersive, KdV type evolution with a dispersionless conservation law. We establish well-posedness with low regularity initial data $L^2({\mathbb T})\times L^2({\mathbb T})$…

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We consider stability of periodic travelling waves in the generalized reduced Ostrovsky equation with respect to co-periodic perturbations. Compared to the recent literature, we give a simple argument that proves spectral stability of all…

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We extend the One-Way Navier Stokes (OWNS) approach to support nonlinear interactions between waves of different frequencies, which will enable nonlinear analysis of instability and transition. In OWNS, the linearized Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-10 Michael K. Sleeman , Matthew T. Lakebrink , Tim Colonius

It is well known that the linear stability of solutions of partial differential equations which are integrable can be very efficiently investigated by means of spectral methods. We present here a direct construction of the eigenmodes of the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-06-18 Antonio Degasperis , Sara Lombardo , Matteo Sommacal

Motivated by Bresch, Desjardins, Gisclon and Sart (2008), in this paper, we study the influence of capillary number on an instability result related to the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations. Precisely, we investigate the instability of a…

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We investigate the Benjamin-Feir instability of small-amplitude gravity-capillary Stokes waves in deep water for the full water wave equations. While modulational instability has been classically predicted by formal asymptotic approaches,…

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