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We consider the semilinear wave equation $V(x) u_{tt} -u_{xx}+q(x)u = \pm f(x,u)$ for three different classes (P1), (P2), (P3) of periodic potentials $V,q$. (P1) consists of periodically extended delta-distributions, (P2) of periodic step…
We consider a new nonlocal formulation of the water-wave problem for a free surface with an irrotational flow based on the work of Ablowitz, Fokas, and Musslimani and presented in the recent work of Oliveras. The main focus of the short…
The final goal of this paper is to prove existence of local (strong) solutions to a (fully nonlinear) porous medium equation with blow-up term and nondecreasing constraint. To this end, the equation, arising in the context of Damage…
We consider the defocusing, energy subcritical wave equation $\partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = -|u|^{p-1} u$ in dimension $d \in \{3,4,5\}$ and prove the exterior scattering of solutions if $3\leq d \leq 5$ and $1+6/d<p<1+4/(d-2)$. More…
The paper deals with initial-boundary value problems for the linear wave equation whose solutions stabilize to zero in a finite time. We prove that problems in this class remain exponentially stable in $L^2$ as well as in $C^2$ under small…
In this paper we analyze the use of time splitting techniques for solving shallow water equation. We discuss some properties that these schemes should satisfy so that interactions between the source term and the shock waves are controlled.…
In this paper, the discretization of a nonlinear wave equation whose nonlinear term is a power function is introduced. The difference equation derived by discretizing the nonlinear wave equation has solutions which show characteristics…
In previous paper we have shown that there is a special kind of nonlinear electrodynamics - Curvilinear Wave Electrodynamics (CWED), whose equations are mathematically equivalent to the equations of quantum electrodynamics. The purpose of…
We consider a perturbed energy critical focusing Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation in three dimensions. We construct solitary wave solutions for focusing subcritical perturbations as well as defocusing supercritical perturbations. The…
We show that the finite time blow up solutions for the co-rotational Wave Maps problem constructed in [7,15] are stable under suitably small perturbations within the co-rotational class, provided the scaling parameter $\lambda(t) =…
Periodic waves in the fractional Korteweg-de Vries equation have been previously characterized as constrained minimizers of energy subject to fixed momentum and mass. Here we characterize these periodic waves as constrained minimizers of…
We study asymptotic stability of solitary wave solutions in the one-dimensional Benney-Luke equation, a formally valid approximation for describing two-way water wave propagation. For this equation, as for the full water wave problem, the…
We study existence and stability of standing waves for coupled nonlinear Hartree type equations \[ -i\frac{\partial}{\partial t}\psi_j=\Delta \psi_j+\sum_{k=1}^m \left(W\star |\psi_k|^p \right)|\psi_j|^{p-2}\psi_j, \] where…
In this paper, we prove pointwise decay rates for cubic and higher order nonlinear wave equations, including quasilinear wave equations, on asymptotically flat and time-dependent spacetimes. We assume that the solution to the linear…
We derive a new generalization of the nonlinear variational wave equation. We prove existence of local, smooth solutions for this system. As a limiting case, we recover the nonlinear variational wave equation.
It is known that for some time periodic potentials $q(t, x) \geq 0$ having compact support with respect to $x$ some solutions of the Cauchy problem for the wave equation $\partial_t^2 u - \Delta_x u + q(t,x)u = 0$ have exponentially…
In this paper, we prove the nonlinear stability under localized perturbations of spectrally stable time-periodic source defects of reaction-diffusion systems. Consisting of a core that emits periodic wave trains to each side, source defects…
For the quasilinear wave equation \partial_t^2u - \Delta u = u_t u_{tt}, we analyze the long-time behavior of classical solutions with small (not rotationally invariant) data. We give a complete asymptotic expansion of the lifespan and…
This paper presents a novel method for obtaining the probability wave of breaking ($P_b$) of deep water, dominant wind-sea waves (that is, waves made of the energy within $\pm$30\% of the peak wave frequency) derived from Gaussian wave…
We prove that solutions to the critical wave equation below can not be global if the initial values are positive somewhere and nonnegative. This completes the solution to the famous blow up conjecture about critical semilinear wave…