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We consider a version of the classical Hamiltonian Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) problem with a trilinear force-strain relation of soft-hard-soft type that is in general non-symmetric. In addition to the classical spatially localized solitary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-06-11 Anna Vainchtein , Lev Truskinovsky

In this note we study solitary wave solutions of a class of Whitham-Boussinesq systems which includes the bi-directional Whitham system as a special example. The travelling wave version of the evolution system can be reduced to a single…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Dag Nilsson , Yuexun Wang

In the present contribution we investigate some features of dynamical lattice systems near periodic traveling waves. First, following the formal averaging method of Whitham, we derive modulation systems expected to drive at main order the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Bugra Kabil , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

We determine the stability and instability of a sufficiently small and periodic traveling wave to long wavelength perturbations, for a nonlinear dispersive equation which extends a Camassa-Holm equation to include all the dispersion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Ashish K. Pandey

In this work, modulation of periodic interfacial waves on a conduit of viscous liquid is explored utilizing Whitham theory and Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) theory. Large amplitude periodic wave modulation theory does not require…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 Michelle D. Maiden , Mark. A. Hoefer

We study the modulational instability of a shallow water model, with and without surface tension, which generalizes the Whitham equation to include bi-directional propagation. Without surface tension, the small amplitude periodic traveling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Ashish Kumar Pandey

Boussinesq-type wave equations involve nonlinearities and dispersion. In this paper a Boussinesq-type equation with amplitude-dependent nonlinearities is presented. Such a model was proposed by Heimburg and Jackson (2005) for describing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-02-23 Jüri Engelbrecht , Kert Tamm , Tanel Peets

Recently, the Whitham and capillary-Whitham equations were shown to accurately model the evolution of surface waves on shallow water. In order to gain a deeper understanding of these equations, we compute periodic, traveling-wave solutions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-01 John D. Carter , Morgan Rozman

In this work we revisit the existence, stability and dynamics of unstable traveling solitary waves in the context of lattice dynamical systems. We consider a nonlinear lattice of an $\alpha$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam type with the additional feature…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-16 H. Duran , H. Xu , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Vainchtein

In the present work, we review two well-established quasi-continuum models of a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice with Hertzian type potentials, and utilize these two models to approximate the discrete dispersive shock waves (DDSWs) which are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-30 Su Yang

We show that periodic traveling waves with sufficiently small amplitudes of the Whitham equation, which incorporates the dispersion relation of surface water waves and the nonlinearity of the shallow water equations,are spectrally unstable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

Whitham modulation theory describes the zero dispersion limit of nonlinear waves by a system of conservation laws for the parameters of modulated periodic traveling waves. Here, admissible, discontinuous, weak solutions of the Whitham…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-24 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer

This paper is concerned with the detailed behaviour of roll-waves undergoing a low-frequency perturbation. We rst derive the so-called Whitham's averaged modulation equations and relate the well-posedness of this set of equations to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Pascal Noble , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

New results concerning the orbital stability of periodic traveling wave solutions for the "abcd" Boussinesq model will be shown in this manuscript. For the existence of solutions, we use basic tools of ordinary differential equations to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Gabriel E. Bittencourt Moraes , Guilherme de Loreno , Fábio Natali

This paper studies analytically the stability of solitary waves in a generalized Boussinesq equation with quadratic-cubic nonlinearity. For general values of two parameters a and b determining the system, unstable waves may occur. If…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-26 Heinrich Freistühler , Johannes Höwing

We examine the spectral stability and instability of periodic traveling waves for regularized long-wave models. Examples include the regularized Boussinesq, Benney--Luke, and Benjamin--Bona--Mahony equations. Of particular interest is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Jared C. Bronski , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Samuel Lee Wester

We consider propagation of instability fronts in conservative nonlinear wave systems by the Whitham method. Whitham modulation equations for periodic solutions of the generalized Klein-Gordon equation are solved in the limit of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-11 A. M. Kamchatnov

We consider the existence of periodic traveling waves in a bidirectional Whitham equation, combining the full two-way dispersion relation from the incompressible Euler equations with a canonical shallow water nonlinearity. Of particular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Mats Ehrnström , Mathew A. Johnson , Kyle M. Claassen

In this paper we prove the validity of a long wave Whitham approximation for a system consisting of a Boussinesq equation coupled with a Klein-Gordon equation. The proof is based on an infinite series of normal form transformations and an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Wolf-Patrick Düll , Kourosh Sanei Kashani , Guido Schneider

We prove the existence of a periodic traveling wave of extreme form of the Whitham equation that has a convex profile between consecutive stagnation points, at which it is known to feature a cusp of exactly $C^{1/2}$ regularity. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Alberto Enciso , Javier Gómez-Serrano , Bruno Vergara