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The Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation is used to model surface waves in wave tanks of hydrodynamic laboratories. Analysis of the linearized NLS equation shows that its harmonic solutions with a small amplitude modulation have a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-25 N. Karjanto , E. van Groesen , P. Peterson

We introduce a setting based on the one-dimensional (1D) nonlinear Schroedinger equation (NLSE) with the self-focusing (SF) cubic term modulated by a singular function of the coordinate, |x|^{-a}. It may be additionally combined with the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-04 Olga V. Borovkova , Valery E. Lobanov , Boris A. Malomed

We consider the interplay between nonlocal nonlinearity and randomness for two different nonlinear Schr\"odinger models. We show that stability of bright solitons in presence of random perturbations increases dramatically with the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-06-07 F. Maucher , W. Krolikowski , S. Skupin

I review the basic ``gravitational instability'' model for the growth of structure in the expanding Universe. This model requires the existence of small initial irregularities in the density of a largely uniform universe. These grow through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Coles

We study a deformation of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation recently derived in the context of deformation of hierarchies of integrable systems. This systematic method also led to known integrable equations such as the Camassa-Holm…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-08-24 Alexis Arnaudon

We consider the modulational instability of nonlinearly interacting two-dimensional waves in deep water, which are described by a pair of two-dimensional coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations. We derive a nonlinear dispersion relation.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. K. Shukla , I. Kourakis , B. Eliasson , M. Marklund , L. Stenflo

Soliton gases represent large random soliton ensembles in physical systems that display integrable dynamics at the leading order. Despite significant theoretical developments and observational evidence of ubiquity of soliton gases in fluids…

The dynamical equations describing the evolution of a self-gravitating fluid can be rewritten in the form of a Schrodinger equation coupled to a Poisson equation determining the gravitational potential. This wave-mechanical representation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Coles , Kate Spencer

The non-stationary nonlinear models of magnetostatic waves propagation in layered ferromagnetic structures are developed. This models are based on use of the coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations for amplitude of a bending around taking…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Malugina , Yu. P. Sharaevsky

We study the nonlinear stage of the modulation instability of a condensate in the framework of the focusing Nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger Equation. We find a general N-solitonic solution of the focusing NLSE in the presence of a condensate by…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-08-09 V. E. Zakharov , A. A. Gelash

We consider the dynamics of internal envelope solitons in a two-layer rotating fluid with a linearly varying bottom. It is shown that the most probable frequency of a carrier wave which constitutes the solitary wave is the frequency where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-25 Yury Stepanyants

We investigate the dynamics of solitons of the cubic Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation (NLSE) with the following perturbations: non-parametric spatio-temporal driving of the form $f(x,t) = a \exp[i K(t) x]$, damping, and a linear term which…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-11 Franz G. Mertens , Niurka R. Quintero , A. R. Bishop

We investigate the propagation of partially coherent beams in spatially nonlocal nonlinear media with a logarithmic type of nonlinearity. We derive analytical formulas for the evolution of the beam parameters and conditions for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Wieslaw Krolikowski , Ole Bang , John Wyller

The nonlinear Schrodinger equation supports solitons -- self-interacting, localized states that behave as nearly independent objects. We exhibit solitons with self-induced nonreciprocal dynamics in a discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-15 Pedro Fittipaldi de Castro , Wladimir Alejandro Benalcazar

In this paper we study the interaction of Gaussian solitons in a dispersive and nonlinear media with log-law nonlinearity. The model is described by the coupled logarithmic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations, which is a nonintegrable system…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-04-14 Rafael M. P. Teixeira , Wesley B. Cardoso

We investigate the dynamics of travelling oscillating solitons of the cubic NLS equation under an external spatiotemporal forcing of the form $f(x,t) = a \exp[iK(t)x]$. For the case of time-independent forcing a stability criterion for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-11 Franz G. Mertens , Niurka R. Quintero , I. V. Barashenkov , A. R. Bishop

Irrotational ow of a spherical thin liquid layer surrounding a rigid core is described using the defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Accordingly, azimuthal moving nonlinear waves are modeled by periodic dark solitons expressed by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-08-04 A. S. Carstea , A. Ludu

The stability and dynamical properties of the so-called resonant nonlinear Schr\"odinger (RNLS) equation, are considered. The RNLS is a variant of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation with the addition of a perturbation used to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-03-05 F. Williams , F. Tsitoura , T. P. Horikis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We study the fractional three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with exponential saturating nonlinearity. In the case of the L\'{e}vy index $\alpha=1.9$, this equation can be considered as a model equation to describe…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-07-09 Volodymyr M. Lashkin , Oleg K. Cheremnykh

The Schr\"odinger-Poisson formalism has found a number of applications in cosmology, particularly in describing the growth by gravitational instability of large-scale structure in a universe dominated by ultra-light scalar particles. Here…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Peter Coles , Aoibhinn Gallagher