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We establish the asymptotic stability of lefton solutions-exponentially localized stationary solitary waves-for the $b$-family of equations with positive momentum density in the regime $b < -1$. Unlike the completely integrable Camassa-Holm…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Jun Wu , Yue Liu , Zhong Wang

We consider the Adlam-Allen (AA) system of partial differential equations which, arguably, is the first model that was introduced to describe solitary waves in the context of propagation of hydrodynamic disturbances in collisionless…

The forced Korteweg-de Vries (fKdV) equation describes incompressible inviscid free surface flows over some arbitrary topography. We investigate solitary and hydraulic fall solutions to the fKdV equation. Numerical results show that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-09 Keith C. H. Chan , Andrew C. Cullen , Simon R. Clarke

We study the Korteweg-de Vries-type equation dt u=-dx(dx^2 u+f(u)-B(t,x)u), where B is a small and bounded, slowly varying function and f is a nonlinearity. Many variable coefficient KdV-type equations can be rescaled into this equation. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Dejak , B. L. G. Jonsson

In this paper, we present exact divergence-free spectral method for solving the incompressible and resistive magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equations in two and three dimensions, as well as the efficient solution algorithm and unconditionally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Lechang Qin , Huiyuan Li , Zhiguo Yang

In this overview paper, we show existence of smooth solitary-wave solutions to the nonlinear, dispersive evolution equations of the form \begin{equation*} \partial_t u + \partial_x(\Lambda^s u + u\Lambda^r u^2) = 0, \end{equation*} where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Johanna Ulvedal Marstrander

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are analysed in the early Universe, in the inflationary era, assuming the Universe to be filled with a nonviscous fluid of the Zel'dovich type ($p=\rho$) in a metric of the de Sitter form. A spatially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-14 I. Brevik , H. B. Sandvik

We use MHD simulations to detect the nonlinear effects of torsional Alfv\'en wave propagation in a potential magnetic field with exponentially divergent field lines, embedded in a stratified solar corona. In Paper I we considered solutions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-10 Callum Boocock , David Tsiklauri

We present a new numerical method of special relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics with scalar resistivity that can treat a range of phenomena, from nonrelativistic to relativistic (shock, contact discontinuity, and Alfv\'en wave).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Makoto Takamoto , Tsuyoshi Inoue

We describe the interaction of parallel-propagating Alfv\'en waves with ion-acoustic waves and other Alfv\'en waves, in magnetized, high-$\beta$ collisionless plasmas. This is accomplished through a combination of analytical theory and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-15 Stephen Majeski , Matthew W. Kunz

We investigate the steepening of the magnetic fluctuation power law spectra observed in the inner solar wind for frequencies higher than 0.5 Hz. This high frequency part of the spectrum may be attributed to dispersive nonlinear processes.…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Galtier

This paper rigorously analyzes how the {\it large box limit} fundamentally alters the global existence theory and dynamics behavior of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system with small viscosity/resistivity $(0<\mu\ll 1)$ on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Li Xu , Jiahui Zhang

We consider linear instability of solitary waves of several classes of dispersive long wave models. They include generalizations of KDV, BBM, regularized Boussinesq equations, with general dispersive operators and nonlinear terms. We obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-04 Zhiwu Lin

The global regularity for the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations (MHD) in three dimensions is a long standing open problem of fluid dynamics and PDE theory. The Navier-Stokes equations can be viewed as a special case of MHD with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-18 Zhen Lei

The existence of solitary wave solutions of the one-dimensional version of the fractional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (fNLS) equation was analyzed by the authors in a previous work. In this paper, the asymptotic decay of the solitary waves is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Ángel Durán , Nuria Reguera

When solitary waves are characterized as homoclinic orbits of a finite-dimensional Hamiltonian system, they have an integer-valued topological invariant, the Maslov index. We are interested in developing a robust numerical algorithm to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-05-14 Frédéric Chardard , Frédéric Dias , Thomas J. Bridges

Finite-amplitude hydromagnetic Rossby waves in the magnetostrophic regime are studied. We consider the slow mode, which travels in the opposite direction to the hydrodynamic or fast mode, in the presence of a toroidal magnetic field and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-14 K. Hori , S. M. Tobias , C. A. Jones

Alfv\'enic motions are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and their observed properties are closely linked to those of photospheric p-modes. However, it is still unclear how a predominantly acoustic wave driver can produce these transverse…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Samuel Skirvin , Yuhang Gao , Tom Van Doorsselaere

We investigate the blow-up dynamics of smooth solutions to the one-dimensional wave equation with a quadratic spatial derivative nonlinearity, motivated by its applications in Effective Field Theory (EFT) in cosmology. Despite its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Tej-eddine Ghoul , Jie Liu , Nader Masmoudi

The investigation employed the reductive perturbation approach to study the nonlinear propagation of shear Alfvenic waves in an electron-positron (EP) plasma medium. Utilizing the solitary wave solution of the derivative nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 T. I. Rajib