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The thermomagnetic instability of the critical state in superconductors is analysed with account of the dissipation and dispersion. The possibility is demonstrated of the existance of a nonlinear shok wave describing the final stage of the…
We study the weak universality of the two-dimensional fractional nonlinear wave equation. For a sequence of Hamiltonians of high-degree potentials scaling to the fractional $\Phi_2^4$, we first establish a \emph{sufficient and almost…
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…
In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem for a nonlinear wave equation with frictional and viscoelastic damping terms. Our aim is to obtain the threshold, to classify the global existence of solution for small data or the finite time…
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We study the stochastic viscous nonlinear wave equations (SvNLW) on $\mathbb T^2$, forced by a fractional derivative of the space-time white noise $\xi$. In particular, we consider SvNLW with the singular additive forcing $D^\frac{1}{2}\xi$…
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