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Consider the dynamics of a gas bubble in an inviscid, compressible liquid with surface tension. Kinematic and dynamic boundary conditions couple the bubble surface deformation dynamics with the dynamics of waves in the fluid. This system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-14 A. M. Shapiro , M. I. Weinstein

We consider the resonant system of amplitude equations for the conformally invariant cubic wave equation on the three-sphere. Using the local bifurcation theory, we characterize all stationary states that bifurcate from the first two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 P. Bizon , D. Hunik-Kostyra , D. E. Pelinovsky

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…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick N. McGraw , Michael Menzinger

Two types of stable, highly localized Faraday's resonant standing waves with multiple crests and troughs are observed in the alcoholic solution partly filled in a Hele-Shaw cell vertically oscillated with a single frequency. These oscillons…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-01 Xiaochen LI , Dali Xu , Shijun Liao

We study standing periodic waves modeled by the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with the intensity-dependent dispersion coefficient. Spatial periodic profiles are smooth if the frequency of the standing waves is below the limiting frequency,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Fábio Natali , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Shuoyang Wang

Travelling-wave solutions are shown to bifurcate from relative periodic orbits in plane Poiseuille flow at Re = 2000 in a saddle-node infinite period bifurcation. These solutions consist in self-sustaining sinuous quasi-streamwise streaks…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Subhendu Rawat , Carlo Cossu , François Rincon

We study I-balls/oscillons, which are long-lived, quasi-periodic, and spatially localized solutions in real scalar field theories. Contrary to the case of Q-balls, there is no evident conserved charge that stabilizes the localized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-21 Kyohei Mukaida , Masahiro Takimoto , Masaki Yamada

In this work, starting by suitable superpositions of equal-frequency Bessel beams, we develop a theoretical and experimental methodology to obtain localized stationary wave fields, with high transverse localization, whose longitudinal…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Zamboni-Rached , E. Recami , H. E. Hernandez-Figueroa

A recent study demonstrated the existence of oscillons -- extremely long-lived localized configurations that undergo regular oscillations in time -- in spontaneously broken SU(2) gauge theory with a fundamental Higgs particle whose mass is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Graham

Oscillons, i.e., immobile spatially localized but temporally oscillating structures, are the subject of intense study since their discovery in Faraday wave experiments. However, oscillons can also disappear and reappear at a shifted spatial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-12-10 Edgar Knobloch , Hannes Uecker , Arik Yochelis

The emergence of localised vibrations in cyclic and symmetric rotating structures, such as bladed disks of aircraft engines, has challenged engineers in the past few decades. In the linear regime, localised states may arise due to a lack of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-09-26 Filipe Fontanela , Aurelien Grolet , Loic Salles , Amin Chabchoub , Alan Champneys , Sophoclis Patsias , Norbert Hoffmann

In this work, we report on the possibility of occurrence of oscillon configurations in the fourth state of matter. Oscillons are extremely long-lived, time-periodic, spatially-localised scalar field structures. Starting from a scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-21 R. A. C. Correa , W. de Paula , T. Frederico , O. Oliveira , F. E. M. Silveira

We study the formation of steady waves in two-dimensional fluids under a current with mean velocity $c$ flowing over a periodic bottom. Using a formulation based on the Dirichlet-Neumann operator, we establish the unique continuation of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Walter Craig , Carlos García-Azpeitia

Since the early works[1-4] on the so-called nondiffracting waves (called also Localized Waves), a great deal of results has been published on this important subject, from both the theoretical and the experimental point of view. Initially,…

General Physics · Physics 2010-01-31 Michel Zamboni-Rached , Erasmo Recami , Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa

Oscillons are spatially localized, time-periodic and long-lived configurations that were primarily proposed in scalar field theories with attractive self-interactions. In this letter, we demonstrate that oscillons also exist in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Hong-Yi Zhang , Mudit Jain , Mustafa A. Amin

The motion of a thin layer of granular material on a plate undergoing sinusoidal vibrations is considered. We develop equations of motion for the local thickness and the horizontal velocity of the layer. The driving comes from the violent…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Jens Eggers , Hermann Riecke

In this paper we investigate the emergence of time-periodic and and time-quasiperiodic (sometimes infinitely long lived and sometimes very long lived or metastable) solutions of discrete nonlinear wave equations: discrete sine Gordon,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Kevrekidis , M. I. Weinstein

We investigate the time-periodic solutions to the nonlinear wave and beam equations and uncover their intricate, fractal-like structure. In particular, we identify a new class of large-energy solutions with complex mode compositions and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Filip Ficek , Maciej Maliborski

This paper is devoted to the modeling of longitudinal strain waves in a rod composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic material characterized by frequency-dependent second- and third-order elastic constants. We demonstrate that long waves in such…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-01-17 F. E. Garbuzov , Y. M. Beltukov

We consider the dynamics of monodisperse bubbly fluid confined by two plane solid walls and subjected to small-amplitude high-frequency transversal oscillations. The frequency these oscillations is assumed to be high in comparison with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sergey Shklyaev , Arthur V. Straube