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We prove high-frequency modulational instability of small-amplitude Stokes waves in deep water under longitudinal perturbations, providing the first isola of unstable eigenvalues branching off from $\mathtt{i}\frac34$. Unlike the finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Massimiliano Berti , Alberto Maspero , Paolo Ventura

We study the stability of Stokes waves on a free surface of an ideal fluid of infinite depth. For small steepness the modulational instability dominates the dynamics, but its growth rate is vastly surpassed for steeper waves by an…

This paper studies both existence and spectral stability properties of bounded spatially periodic traveling wave solutions to a large class of scalar viscous balance laws in one space dimension with a reaction function of monostable or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Enrique Alvarez , Ramon G. Plaza

In this paper, we prove global existence of weak solutions for the stationary compressible Navier-Stokes equations with an anisotropic and nonlocal viscous term in a periodic domain. This gives an answer to an open problem important for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-10 D. Bresch , Cosmin Burtea

Steady linear gravity waves of small amplitude travelling on a current of constant vorticity are found. For negative vorticity we show the appearance of internal waves and vortices, wherein the particle trajectories are not any more closed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-12-05 Mats Ehrnstrom , Gabriele Villari

We study the spectral stability properties of periodic traveling waves in the sine-Gordon equation, including waves of both subluminal and superluminal propagation velocities as well as waves of both librational and rotational types. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Christopher K. R. T. Jones , Robert Marangell , Peter D. Miller , Ramon G. Plaza

Periodic water waves of permanent form traveling at constant speed, the so-called Stokes waves, are studied in water of fixed finite depth using methods previously used in water of infinite depth. We apply our methods to waves of varying…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-01 Eleanor Byrnes , Bernard Deconinck , Anastassiya Semenova

This paper proves long-standing conjectures regarding the existence of infinitely many high-frequency modulational instability ``isolas" for a Stokes wave in arbitrary depth $ \mathtt{h} > 0 $, under longitudinal perturbations. We provide a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Massimiliano Berti , Livia Corsi , Alberto Maspero , Paolo Ventura

It is well-known that the rarefaction wave, one of the basic wave patterns to the hyperbolic conservation laws, is nonlinearly stable to the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations (cf. [14,15,12,17]). In the present paper we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Lin-an Li , Yi Wang

We consider the quadratic and cubic KP - I and NLS models in $1+2$ dimensions with periodic boundary conditions. We show that the spatially periodic travelling waves (with period $K$) in the form $u(t,x,y)=\vp(x-c t)$ are spectrally and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-15 Sevdzhan Hakkaev , Milena Stanislavova , Atanas Stefanov

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-18 T. T. H. Bui , P. van Heijster , R. Marangell

Periodic travelling waves are considered in the class of reduced Ostrovsky equations that describe low-frequency internal waves in the presence of rotation. The reduced Ostrovsky equations with either quadratic or cubic nonlinearities can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Edward R. Johnson , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We numerically investigate transverse stability and instability of so-called cnoidal waves, i.e., periodic traveling wave solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation, under the time-evolution of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-22 C. Klein , C. Sparber

We study the existence of traveling wave solutions to a unidirectional shallow water model which incorporates the full linear dispersion relation for both gravitational and capillary restoring forces. Using functional analytic techniques,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Mathew A. Johnson , J. Douglas Wright

We consider the stability and instability of periodic travling waves for Korteweg-de Vries type equations with fractional dispersion and other nonlinear dispersive equations. We establish that a constrained minimizer for the related…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

We describe traveling waves in a basic model for three-dimensional water-wave dynamics in the weakly nonlinear long-wave regime. Small solutions that are periodic in the direction of translation (or orthogonal to it) form an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Robert L. Pego , Jose Raul Quintero

We study the spectral stability of smooth, small-amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions of the Novikov equation, which is a Camassa-Holm type equation with cubic nonlinearities. Specifically, we investigate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Brett Ehrman , Mathew A. Johnson , Stéphane Lafortune

We consider stability of periodic travelling waves in the generalized reduced Ostrovsky equation with respect to co-periodic perturbations. Compared to the recent literature, we give a simple argument that proves spectral stability of all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Anna Geyer , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We study the transverse spectral stability of the one-dimensional small-amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions of the (2+1)-dimensional Konopelchenko-Dubrovsky (KD) equation. We show that these waves are transversely unstable with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Bhavna , Ashish Kumar Pandey , Sudhir Singh

We investigate the Benjamin-Feir (or modulational) instability of Stokes waves, i.e., small-amplitude, one-dimensional periodic gravity waves of permanent form and constant velocity, in water of finite and infinite depth. We develop a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-22 Ryan Creedon , Bernard Deconinck