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We consider a non-linear system modelling the dynamics of a linearly elastic body immersed in an incompressible viscous fluid, without damping on the elastic part. We prove local existence of strong solutions and global existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Karoline Disser , Michelle Luckas

Solid state physics deals with systems composed of atoms with strongly bound electrons. The tunneling probability of each electron is determined by interactions that typically extend to neighboring sites, as their corresponding wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-27 F. Ramírez-Ramírez , E. Flores-Olmedo , G. Báez , E. Sadurní , R. ~A. Méndez-Sánchez

Two methods are explained to exactly solve Maxwell's equations where permittivity, permeability and conductivity may vary in space. In the constitutive relations, retardation is regarded. If the material properties depend but on one…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-20 Ulrich Brosa

We show that the water waves system is locally wellposed in weighted Sobolev spaces which allow for interfaces with corners. No symmetry assumptions are required. These singular points are not rigid: if the initial interface exhibits a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Diego Cordoba , Alberto Enciso , Nastasia Grubic

The existence of periodic waves propagating downstream on the surface of a two-dimensional infinitely deep water under gravity is established for a general class of vorticities. When reformulated as an elliptic boundary value problem in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-02 Vera Mikyoung Hur

An instantaneous sub-surface disturbance in a two-dimensional elastic half-space is considered. The disturbance propagates through the elastic material until it reaches the free surface, after which it propagates out along the surface. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-18 Lawrence K. Forbes , Stephen J. Walters , Anya M. Reading

Topological systems are inherently robust to disorder and continuous perturbations, resulting in dissipation-free edge transport of electrons in quantum solids, or reflectionless guiding of photons and phonons in classical wave systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 Xiang Ni , Matthew Weiner , Andrea Alù , Alexander B. Khanikaev

Inertial waves in convective regions of stars exhibit topological properties linked to a Chern number of 1. The first of these is a unique, unidirectional, prograde oscillation mode within the cavity, which propagates at arbitrarily low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Armand Leclerc , Guillaume Laibe , Nicolas Perez

Vortex dynamics are intriguing and challenging across multiple physics fields. In optics, customized spatiotemporally structured optical fields, especially spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOV), offer the potential to tailor light via…

The exotic physics emerging at singularities has long attracted intense theoretical and experimental attention. In non-Hermitian systems, exceptional points (EPs), unique spectral singularities, have given rise to a host of intriguing wave…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-14 Kai Bai , Chen Lin , Jia-Zheng Li , Meng Xiao

We study stationary capillary-gravity waves in a two-dimensional body of water that rests above a flat ocean bed and below vacuum. This system is described by the Euler equations with a free surface. Our main result states that there exist…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Mats Ehrnström , Samuel Walsh , Chongchun Zeng

Hyperuniform materials, characterized by their suppressed density fluctuations and vanishing structure factors as the wave number approaches zero, represent a unique state of matter that straddles the boundary between order and randomness.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-08-20 Yiwen Tang , Xinzhi Li , Dapeng Bi

This paper is concerned with the theoretical study of plasmonic resonances for linear elasticity governed by the Lam\'e system in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and their application for cloaking due to anomalous localized resonances. We derive a very…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Hongjie Li , Jinhong Li , Hongyu Liu

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of two-dimensional water waves characterized by a significant adverse constant vorticity over flows without stagnation points. Surprisingly, we discover qualitative distinctions between this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Evgeniy Lokharu

We derive some more results on the nature of the singularities arising in the collapse of inhomogeneous dust spheres. (i) It is shown that there are future-pointing radial and non-radial time-like geodesics emerging from the singularity if…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Brien C. Nolan , Filipe C. Mena

The linear natural and forced oscillations of a hemispherical bubble on a solid substrate are under theoretical consideration. The contact line dynamics is taken into account with the Hocking condition, which eventually leads to interaction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-05-20 Sergey Shklyaev , Arthur V. Straube

Linearly polarized elastic waves propagating in a linear path have been extensively explored in numerous applications from biomedical imaging to structural health monitoring. However, elastic waves propagating in a circularly polarized…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Mohamed Roshdy , Osama R. Bilal

We investigate the diffraction of singularities of solutions to the linear elastic equation on manifolds with edge singularities. Such manifolds are modeled on the product of a smooth manifold and a cone over a compact fiber. For the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Vitaly Katsnelson

As widely studied topological singularities, bound states in the continuum (BICs) have revealed rich physical properties through their momentum-space topology. Here, we reveal and experimentally demonstrate that magnetically induced chiral…

The spatio-temporal dynamics of separation bubbles induced to form in a fully-developed turbulent boundary layer (with Reynolds number based on momentum thickness of the boundary layer of 490) over a flat plate are studied via direct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-04 Wen Wu , Charles Meneveau , Rajat Mittal