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The nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation and the Whitham modulation equations both describe slowly varying, locally periodic nonlinear wavetrains, albeit in differing amplitude-frequency domains. In this paper, we take advantage of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-05-01 T. Congy , G. A. El , M. A. Hoefer , M. Shearer

In the present work we study the nucleation of Dispersive shock waves (DSW) in the {defocusing}, discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (DNLS), a model of wide relevance to nonlinear optics and atomic condensates. Here, we study the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-11 Shrohan Mohapatra , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Su Yang , Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) of the defocusing radial nonlinear Schr\"odinger (rNLS) equation in two spatial dimensions are studied. This equation arises naturally in Bose-Einstein condensates, water waves and nonlinear optics. A unified…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-07-19 Mark J. Ablowitz , Justin T. Cole , Igor Rumanov

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs), which connect states of different amplitude via a modulated wave train, form generically in nonlinear dispersive media subjected to abrupt changes in state. The primary tool for the analytical study of DSWs is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-06-23 Christopher Chong , Michael Herrmann , P. G. Kevrekidis

In this paper, we study the nonlinear dispersive waves including the rarefaction and dispersive shock waves in the discrete modified KdV equation through the numerical simulations of the dispersive Riemann problems. In particular, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-06 Su Yang

An analysis of discrete systems is important for understanding of various physical processes, such as excitations in crystal lattices and molecular chains, the light propagation in waveguide arrays, and the dynamics of Bose-condensate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-08-06 E. N. Tsoy , B. A. Umarov

This paper probes the dispersive shock waves (DSWs) theory in nonlinear optical systems through Whitham modulation theory for the high-order Chen-Lee-Liu (HOCLL) equation. We systematically derived the one-phase periodic solutions and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Hua-Ying Ren , Rui Guo , Jian-Wen Zhang

In this paper, we study a non-integrable discrete lattice model which is a variant of an integrable discretization of the standard Hopf equation. Interestingly, a direct numerical simulation of the Riemann problem associated with such a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-08 Su Yang

We demonstrate the controllable generation of distinct types of dispersive shock-waves emerging in a quantum droplet bearing environment with the aid of step-like initial conditions. Dispersive regularization of the ensuing hydrodynamic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-20 Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli , Simeon I. Mistakidis , Garyfallia C. Katsimiga , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the study of wave propagation in nonlinear photonic lattices. The interplay between nonlinearity and periodicity has led researchers to manipulate light and discover new and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-26 Mark J. Ablowitz , Justin T. Cole

The fractional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (fDNLS) is studied on a periodic lattice from the analytic and dynamic perspective by varying the mesh size $h>0$ and the nonlocal L\'evy index $\alpha \in (0,2]$. We show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Brian Choi

We study a dispersive counterpart of the classical gas dynamics problem of the interaction of a shock wave with a counter-propagating simple rarefaction wave often referred to as the shock wave refraction. The refraction of a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-28 G. A. El , V. V. Khodorovskii , A. M. Leszczyszyn

In dispersive media, hydrodynamic singularities are resolved by coherent wavetrains known as dispersive shock waves (DSWs). Only dynamically expanding, temporal DSWs are possible in one-dimensional media. The additional degree of freedom…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-11-01 M. A. Hoefer , G. A. El , A. M. Kamchatnov

It is shown that the generalized discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation can be reduced in a small amplitude approximation to the KdV, mKdV, KdV(2) or the fifth-order KdV equations, depending on values of the parameters. In dispersionless…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 A. M. Kamchatnov , A. Spire , V. V. Konotop

For nonlinear dispersive systems, the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation can usually be derived as a formal approximation equation describing slow spatial and temporal modulations of the envelope of a spatially and temporally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Max Heß

We study the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (DNLS) in an annular geometry with on-site defects. The dynamics of a traveling plane-wave maps onto an effective ''non-rigid pendulum'' Hamiltonian. The different regimes include the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Trombettoni , A. Smerzi , A. R. Bishop

We derive and analyze, analytically and numerically, two first-order continuum models to approximate the nonlinear dynamics of granular crystal lattices, focusing specifically on solitary waves, periodic waves, and dispersive shock waves.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-11 Su Yang , Gino Biondini , Christopher Chong , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We present the full classification of wave patterns evolving from an initial step-like discontinuity for arbitrary choice of boundary conditions at the discontinuity location in the DNLS equation theory. In this non-convex dispersive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-01-22 A. M. Kamchatnov

The focusing Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation is the simplest universal model describing the modulation instability (MI) of quasi monochromatic waves in weakly nonlinear media, and MI is considered the main physical mechanism for the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-03-11 F. Coppini , P. G. Grinevich , P. M. Santini

The viscously dominated, low Reynolds' number dynamics of multi-phase, compacting media can lead to nonlinear, dissipationless/dispersive behavior when viewed appropriately. In these systems, nonlinear self-steepening competes with wave…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-01-31 Nicholas K. Lowman , Mark A. Hoefer
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