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The present work provides well-posedness and exponential decay results for the Blackstock-Crighton-Kuznetsov equation arising in the modeling of nonlinear acoustic wave propagation in thermally relaxing viscous fluids. First, we treat the…

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The Lidov-Kozai (LK) mechanism plays an important role in the secular evolution of many hierarchical triple systems. The standard LK mechanism consists of large-amplitude oscillations in eccentricity and inclination of a binary subject to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bin Liu , Diego J. Muñoz , Dong Lai

This paper is focused on the modified Zakharov-Kusnetsov equation. We prove the associated Cauchy problem is locally (in time) well-posed in $H^s(\R \times \T)$ for $s >1$. The new ingredient in this work is a trilinear estimate in the…

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In this paper we discuss the dissipative property of near-equilibrium classical solutions to the Cauchy problem of the Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann System in the whole space $\R^3$ when the positive charged ion flow provides a spatially uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-12 Renjun Duan

In hierarchical triple systems, the inner binary is slowly perturbed by a distant companion, giving rise to large-scale oscillations in eccentricity and inclination, known as von-Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai (ZLK) oscillations. Stable systems with a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 Evgeni Grishin

We develop computer assisted arguments for proving the existence of transverse homoclinic connecting orbits, and apply these arguments for a number of non-perturbative parameter and energy values in the spatial equilateral circular…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-12-05 J. D. Mireles James , Maxime Murray

Irregular satellites, orbiting at large distances from their host planets, are subject to strong solar perturbations that render long-term orbital predictions particularly challenging. Building upon the extended Brown Hamiltonian framework…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Hanlun Lei , Xiaoyan Leng , Evgeni Grishin

Circumplanetary discs can be linearly unstable to the growth of disc tilt in the tidal potential of the star-planet system. We use three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to characterize the disc conditions needed for instability,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Rebecca G. Martin , Zhaohuan Zhu , Philip J. Armitage , Chao-Chin Yang , Hans Baehr

The classical two-body system with Lorentz-invariant Coulomb interaction V=-k/rho is solved in 3+1 dimensions using the manifestly covariant Hamiltonian mechanics of Stueckelberg. Particular solutions for the reduced motion are obtained…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 M. A. Trump , W. C. Schieve

The set of transverse homoclinic intersections for a saddle-focus equilibrium in the planar equilateral restricted four-body problem admit certain simple homoclinic orbits which form the skeleton of the complete homoclinic intersection --…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Maxime Murray , Jason Mireles-James

Genetic systems with multiple loci can have complex dynamics. For example, mean fitness need not always increase and stable cycling is possible. Here, we study the dynamics of a genetic system inspired by the molecular biology of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-10 Timothy W. Russell , Matthew J. Russell , Francisco Úbeda , Vincent A. A. Jansen

We provide a statistical and correlational analysis of the spatial and energetic properties of equilibrium configurations of a few-body system of two to eight equally charged classical particles that are confined on a one-dimensional…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 J. M. Dörre , F. K. Diakonos , P. Schmelcher

Within the relaxation time approximation under a constant mass profile, we investigate the collective dynamics of a system of massive relativistic particles described by the Maxwell-Boltzmann equilibrium distribution. We analytically derive…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Ali Hataei , Roya Heydari , Farid Taghinavaz

In the circular case of the coplanar Restricted Three-body Problem, we studied how the family of quasi-satellite (QS) periodic orbits allows to define an associated libration center. Using the averaged problem, we highlighted a validity…

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In many exoplanetary systems with `hot Jupiters', it is observed that the spin axes of host stars are highly misaligned to planetary orbital axes. In this study, a possible channel is investigated for producing such a misalignment under a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Hanlun Lei , Yan-Xiang Gong

We consider the planar circular restricted three-body problem (PCRTBP), as a model for the motion of a spacecraft relative to the Earth-Moon system. We focus on the Lagrange equilibrium points $L_1$ and $L_2$. There are families of Lyapunov…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Marian Gidea , Rafael de la Llave , Maxwell Musser

We study the non-equilibrium relaxational dynamics of a probe particle linearly coupled to a thermally fluctuating scalar field and subject to a harmonic potential, which provides a cartoon for an optically trapped colloid immersed in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-28 Davide Venturelli , Francesco Ferraro , Andrea Gambassi

We revisit the secular 3D planetary three-body problem aiming to provide a unified formalism for studying the structure of the phase space for progressively higher values of the mutual inclination $i_{mut}$ between the two planets' orbits.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Rita Mastroianni , Christos Efthymiopoulos

We are interested in the classical ill-posed Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation. One method to approximate the solution associated with compatible data consists in considering a family of regularized well-posed problems depending on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Laurent Bourgeois , Lucas Chesnel