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Starting from the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equation we revisit the dimensional reduction to an effective one-dimensional wave-equation that describes the longitudinal dynamics of a Bose condensate in an axially-symmetric external potential.…
Decay rates for the energy of solutions of the damped wave equation on the torus are studied. In particular, damping invariant in one direction and equal to a sum of squares of nonnegative functions with a particular number of derivatives…
We show that, in ideal-spin hydrodynamics, the components of the spin tensor follow damped wave equations. The damping rate is related to nonlocal collisions of the particles in the fluid, which enter at first order in $\hbar$ in a…
We study space--time isogeometric discretizations of the linear acoustic wave equation that use splines of arbitrary degree p, both in space and time. We propose a space--time variational formulation that is obtained by adding a…
We consider the damped hyperbolic equation in one space dimension $\epsilon u_{tt} + u_t = u_{xx} + F(u)$, where $\epsilon$ is a positive, not necessarily small parameter. We assume that $F(0)=F(1)=0$ and that $F$ is concave on the interval…
This paper investigates the problem of time-harmonic acoustic scattering in an inhomogeneous medium with a complex topological structure. Specifically, the medium is anisotropic and contains several disjoint sound-soft obstacles. This model…
We establish spectral, linear, and nonlinear stability of the vanishing and slow-moving travelling waves that arise as time asymptotic solutions to the Fisher-Stefan equation. Nonlinear stability is in terms of the limiting equations that…
We consider a model for internal waves described by a zero order pseudo-differential Hamiltonian $P$ damped by a second order viscosity term $i \nu Q$. Under Morse-Smale or similar weaker global conditions on the classical dynamics, we…
We explore the small mass limit of a stochastic wave equation (SWE) driven by cylindrical $\alpha$-stable noise, where $\alpha\in (1,2)$, and prove that it converges to a stochastic heat equation. We establish its well-posedness, and in…
We propose a model for frequency-dependent damping in the linear wave equation. After proving well-posedness of the problem, we study qualitative properties of the energy. In the one-dimensional case, we provide an explicit analysis for…
In this paper, we study discrete Bessel functions which are solutions to the discretization of Bessel differential equations when the forward and the backward difference replace the time derivative. We focus on the discrete Bessel equations…
The shear viscosity eta_s(w) of dilute polymer solutions (of flexible coils) has been classically measured and interpreted in terms of the Zimm modes. We point out that the longitudinal viscosity eta_l(w) is the sum of two components…
In this paper we study a semilinear wave equation with nonlinear, time-dependent damping in one space dimension. For this problem, we prove a well-posedness result in $W^{1,\infty}$ in the space-time domain $(0,1)\times [0,+\infty)$. Then…
In this paper, we investigate the energy decay of the solution to a viscoelastic wave equation with variable exponents logarithmic nonlinearity and weak damping in a bounded domain. We establish an explicit general decay result under mild…
In this paper we consider a wave model with non-effective mass and dissipation terms and provide asymptotic descriptions of its representation of solutions. In particular we conclude sharp estimates for a corresponding energy and estimates…
We investigate the convergence, in the small mass limit, of the stationary solutions of a class of stochastic damped wave equations, where the friction coefficient depends on the state and the noisy perturbation if of multiplicative type.…
We consider the stabilization problem on a manifold with boundary for a wave equation with measure-valued linear damping. For a wide class of measures, containing Dirac masses on hypersurfaces as well as measures with fractal support, we…
Motivated by recent progress in trapping Bose-Einstein condensed atoms in toroidal potentials, we examine solitary-wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation subject to periodic boundary conditions. When the circumference of the…
The collision of a quantum Gaussian wave packet with a square barrier is solved explicitly in terms of known functions. The obtained formula is suitable for performing fast calculations or asymptotic analysis. It also provides physical…
Magneto-acoustic waves in partially ionized plasmas are damped due to elastic collisions between charged and neutral particles. Here, we use a linearized two-fluid model to describe the influence of this collisional interaction on the…