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The orbital instability of standing waves for the Klein-Gordon-Zakharov system has been established in two and three space dimensions under radially symmetric condition, see Ohta-Todorova (SIAM J. Math. Anal. 2007). In the one space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Silu Yin

Shockwaves provide a useful and rewarding route to the nonequilibrium properties of simple fluids far from equilibrium. For simplicity, we study a strong shockwave in a dense two-dimensional fluid. Here, our study of nonlinear transport…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-24 Wm. G. Hoover , Carol G. Hoover

Frequently encountered in nature, internal solitary waves in stratified fluids are well-observed and well-studied from the experimental, the theoretical, and the numerical perspective. From the mathematical point of view, these waves are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-03 Andreas Klaiber

This paper concerns the instability and stability of the trivial steady states of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier-slip boundary conditions in a slab domain in dimension two. The main results show that the stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Shijin Ding , Quanrong Li , Zhouping Xin

We establish that solitary stationary waves in three dimensional viscous incompressible fluids are a generic phenomenon and that every such solution is a vanishing wave-speed limit along a one parameter family of traveling waves. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Noah Stevenson , Ian Tice

In this paper, we investigate the instability of the spherical travelling wave solutions for the Transport-Stokes system in $\mathbb{R}^3$. First, a classical scaling argument ensures instability among all probability measures for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Matthieu Bonnivard , Amina Mecherbet

In this paper, we present new results regarding the orbital stability of solitary standing waves for the general fourth-order Schr\"odinger equation with mixed dispersion. The existence of solitary waves can be determined both as minimizers…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Handan Borluk , Gulcin M. Muslu , Fábio Natali

We present a comprehensive study of MHD waves and instabilities in a weakly ionised system, e.g., an interstellar molecular cloud. We determine all the critical wavelengths of perturbations across which the sustainable wave modes can change…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-01 Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias , Glenn E. Ciolek , S. A. Morton

Two-dimensional nonlinear gravity waves travelling in shallow water on a vertically sheared current of constant vorticity are considered. Using Euler equations, in the shallow water approximation, hyperbolic equations for the surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-04 Christian Kharif , Malek Abid

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

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Yong Zhang

We study the existence of traveling wave solutions to a unidirectional shallow water model which incorporates the full linear dispersion relation for both gravitational and capillary restoring forces. Using functional analytic techniques,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Mathew A. Johnson , J. Douglas Wright

In order to understand the nonlinear stability of many types of time-periodic travelling waves on unbounded domains, one must overcome two main difficulties: the presence of embedded neutral eigenvalues and the time-dependence of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Margaret Beck , Bjorn Sandstede , Kevin Zumbrun

In periodic wave motion, particles beneath the wave undergo a drift in the direction of wave propagation, a phenomenon known as Stokes drift. While extensive research has been conducted on Stokes drift in water wave flows, its counterpart…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-18 Luiz P. Palacio , Marcelo V. Flamarion , Tao Gao , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr

We study the structure, stability, and dynamics of dark solitary waves in parabolically trapped, collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with spatially periodic variations of the scattering length. This collisional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-03-04 Chang Wang , Kody J. H. Law , Panayotis. G. Kevrekidis , Mason A. Porter

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

For Nicholson's blowflies equation, a kind of reaction-diffusion equations with time-delay, when the ratio of birth rate coefficient and death rate coefficient satisfies $\frac{p}{\delta}>e$, the large time-delay $r>0$ usually causes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Ming Mei , Kaijun Zhang , Qifeng Zhang

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

We consider stratified steady water waves in a two dimensional channel. Our main subject is spectral properties of the Frechet derivatives of steady water Stokes waves. One of main results is the absence of subharmonic water waves in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Vladimir Kozlov

We compare dynamical and energetical stability criteria for vortex rings. It is argued that vortex rings will be intrinsically unstable against perturbations with short wavelengths below a critical wavelength, because the canonical vortex…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Uwe R. Fischer , Nils Schopohl