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We investigate the stability and long-term behavior of spatially periodic plane waves in the complex Klein-Gordon equation under localized perturbations. Such perturbations render the wave neither localized nor periodic, placing its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Emile Bukieda , Louis Garénaux , Björn de Rijk

The two-dimensional free-boundary problem describing steady gravity waves with vorticity on water of finite depth is considered. It is proved that no small-amplitude waves are supported by a horizontal shear flow whose free surface is still…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolay Kuznetsov

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 consider the spectra of the 2-dim gravity waves of finite depth linearized at a uniform monotonic shear flow $U(x_2)$, $x_2 \in (-h, 0)$, where the wave numbers $k$ of the horizontal variable $x_1$ is treated as a parameter. Our main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Xiao Liu , Chongchun Zeng

The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of small-amplitude, unidirectional waves of all wavelengths on shallow water. It has been shown to accurately model the evolution of waves in laboratory experiments. We compute…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 John D. Carter

We present the derivation of generic equations describing the long gravity waves in incompressible fluid with decaying effect. We show that in this theory the only restriction to the surface deviation is connected with the stability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-26 Vladimir I. Kruglov

We present explicit solutions for the ordinary differential equations system describing the motion of the particles beneath small-amplitude capillary-gravity waves which propagate on the surface of an irrotational water flow with a flat…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Delia Ionescu-Kruse

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.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Vladimir Kozlov , Evgeniy Lokharu

We study the instability of standing-wave solutions $e^{i\omega t}\phi_{\omega}(x)$ to the inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation $$i\phi_t=-\triangle\phi+|x|^2\phi-|x|^b|\phi|^{p-1}\phi, \qquad \in\mathbb{R}^N, $$ where $ b > 0 $…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Jianqing Chen , Yue Liu

The present study describes, first, an efficient algorithm for computing capillary-gravity solitary waves solutions of the irrotational Euler equations with a free surface and, second, provides numerical evidences of the existence of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Didier Clamond , Denys Dutykh , Angel Duran

Recently, Dyachenko & Zakharov (2011) have derived a compact form of the well known Zakharov integro-differential equation for the third order Hamiltonian dynamics of a potential flow of an incompressible, infinitely deep fluid with a free…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Francesco Fedele , Denys Dutykh

Using variational methods, we construct approximate solutions for the Gross-Pitaevski equation which concentrate on circles in $\R^3$. These solutions will help to show that the $L^2$ flow is unstable for the usual topology and for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Laurent Thomann

In this paper we derive a new formulation of the water waves equations with vorticity that generalizes the well-known Zalkarov-Craig-Sulem formulation used in the irrotational case. We prove the local well-posedness of this formulation, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Angel Castro , David Lannes

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

In this paper, we study the standing wave solutions of Klein--Gordon equation with logarithmic nonlinearity. The existence of the standing wave solution related to the ground state $\phi_0(x)$ is obtained. Further, we prove the instability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Lijia Han , Yue Qiu , Xiaohong Wang

We consider two-dimensional periodic gravity water waves with constant nonzero vorticity $\gamma$, in infinite depth and with periodic boundary conditions. We prove that, if the characteristic wave number $\frac{\gamma^2}{g}$ is rational,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Beatrice Langella , Alberto Maspero , Federico Murgante , Shulamit Terracina

In this paper, we prove the existence of two-dimensional, traveling, capillary-gravity, water waves with compactly supported vorticity. Specifically, we consider the cases where the vorticity is a $\delta$-function (a point vortex), or has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Jalal Shatah , Samuel Walsh , Chongchun Zeng

We develop a theory of turbulence of weak random gravity waves on surface of deep water in which the main nonlinear process at high-frequency part of the spectrum is a nonlocal interaction with a strong low-frequency component. The latter…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-05 A. O. Korotkevich , S. V. Nazarenko , Y. Pan , J. Shatah

In this paper, we investigate the modulational stability of periodic traveling waves in a local model for shallow water waves, which is an extended version of the Hunter-Saxton equation. We construct a family of small-amplitude periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Lili Fan , Xin Zhang , Hongjun Gao

The main goal of this paper is to present orbital stability results of periodic standing waves for the one-dimensional logarithmic Klein-Gordon equation. To do so, we first use compactness arguments and a non-standard analysis to obtain the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Fábio Natali , Eleomar Cardoso