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We investigate the spectral stability of small-amplitude shock profiles for the one-dimensional isothermal Navier-Stokes-Poisson system, which describes ion dynamics in a collision-dominated plasma. Specifically, we establish (i) bounds on…

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We consider a spectral problem associated with steady water waves of extreme form on the free surface of a rotational flow. It is proved that the spectrum of this problem contains arbitrary large negative eigenvalues and they are simple.…

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Here we present a numerical method for finding non-hydrostatic coastal-trapped wave and instability solutions to the non-hydrostatic Boussinesq equations in the presence of a background flow and complicated coastal topography. We use…

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We present a new numerical method for computing the pure-point spectrum associated with the linear stability of coherent structures. In the context of the Evans function shooting and matching approach, all the relevant information is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-07-06 Veerle Ledoux , Simon J. A. Malham , Vera Thummler

Fluid discontinuities, such as shock fronts and vortex sheets, can reflect waves and become unstable to corrugation. Analytical calculations of these phenomena are tractable in the simplest cases only, while their numerical simulations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 William Béthune

We study existence and stability of steady solutions of the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations on a finite interval with non characteristic boundary conditions, for general not necessarily small-amplitude data. We show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Benjamin Melinand , Kevin Zumbrun

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

We carry out the first rigorous numerical proof based on Evans function computations of stability of viscous shock profiles, for the system of isentropic gas dynamics with monatomic equation of state. We treat a selection of shock strengths…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Blake Barker , Kevin Zumbrun

In this paper, we examine the stability problem for viscous shock solutions of the isentropic compressible Navier--Stokes equations, or $p$-system with real viscosity. We first revisit the work of Matsumura and Nishihara, extending the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Blake Barker , Jeffrey Humpherys , Keith Rudd , Kevin Zumbrun

Granular flows in a narrow pipe are studied numerically by the model taking account of hydrodynamic effects of fluid surrounding particles. In the simulations density waves are observed over the wide range of the Stokes number, which…

adap-org · Physics 2012-08-29 Kengo Ichiki

We study standing periodic waves modeled by the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with the intensity-dependent dispersion coefficient. Spatial periodic profiles are smooth if the frequency of the standing waves is below the limiting frequency,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Fábio Natali , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Shuoyang Wang

Periodic travelling waves at the free surface of an incompressible inviscid fluid in two dimensions under gravity are numerically computed for an arbitrary vorticity distribution. The fluid domain over one period is conformally mapped from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-26 Alex Doak , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck

We study bifurcations and spectral stability of solitary waves in coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations (CNLS) on the line. We assume that the coupled equations possess a solution of which one component is identically zero, and call it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Kazuyuki Yagasaki , Shotaro Yamazoe

We present a rigorous numerical proof based on interval arithmetic computations categorizing the linearized and nonlinear stability of periodic viscous roll waves of the KdV-KS equation modeling weakly unstable flow of a thin fluid film on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-22 Blake Barker

We perform a complete spectral analysis of the linear three-dimensional Boltzmann BGK operator resulting in an explicit transcendental equation for the eigenvalues. Using the theory of finite-rank perturbations, we confirm the existence of…

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A weakly nonlinear spectrum and a strongly nonlinear spectrum coexist in a statistically steady state of elastic wave turbulence. The analytical representation of the nonlinear frequency is obtained by evaluating the extended self-nonlinear…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-15 Naoto Yokoyama , Masanori Takaoka

The linear eigenvalue problem governing the stability of the mechanical equilibrium of the fluid in a electrohydrodynamic (EHD) convection problem is investigated. The analytical study is one of bifurcation. This allows us to regain the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-26 Ioana Dragomirescu

We generalize the periodic Evans function approach recently used to study the spectral stability of Stokes wave and gravity-capillary (including Wilton ripples) in water of finite depth to study spectral stability of Stokes waves in water…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Zhao Yang

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability serves as a simple, well-defined setup for assessing the accuracy of different numerical methods for solving the equations of hydrodynamics. We use it to extend our previous analysis of the convergence and…

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