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Building on work of Barker, Humpherys, Lafitte, Rudd, and Zumbrun in the shock wave case, we study stability of compressive, or "shock-like", boundary layers of the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with gamma-law pressure by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Nicola Costanzino , Jeffrey Humpherys , Toan Nguyen , Kevin Zumbrun

Using the energy method we investigate the stability of pure conduction in Pearson's model for B\'enard-Marangoni convection in a layer of fluid at infinite Prandtl number. Upon extending the space of admissible perturbations to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-18 Giovanni Fantuzzi , Andrew Wynn

We apply the convection stability criterion to a fluid in global thermodynamic equilibrium with a rigid rotation or with a constant acceleration along the streamlines. Different equations of state describing strongly interacting matter are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-16 Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski

We complete a full classification of non-degenerate traveling waves of scalar balance laws from the point of view of spectral and nonlinear stability/instability under (piecewise) smooth perturbations. A striking feature of our analysis is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Vincent Duchêne , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

The dynamics of wave groups is studied for long waves, using the framework of the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation and its generalizations. It is shown that the dynamics are richer than the corresponding results obtained just from the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-27 Andrei Marin , Adrian Stefan Carstea

In this paper, we consider the degenerate semi-linear Schr\"odinger and Korteweg-deVries equations in one spatial dimension. We construct special solutions of the two models, namely standing wave solutions of NLS and traveling waves, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Sevdzhan Hakkaev , Abba Ramadan , Atanas G. Stefanov

We study the zero-dispersion limit for a class of Korteweg--de Vries (KdV)-type initial-boundary value problems on the half-line, with Dirichlet boundary conditions assigned at \(x=0\). We focus on the outflow regime, where the solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Paolo Antonelli , Pierangelo Marcati , Laura V. Spinolo

We investigate the Cahn-Hilliard equation with nonlinear diffusion and non-degenerate mobility modeling phase separation phenomena in complex systems (e.g., crystals and polymers). Previous results in the literature on this model relied on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Monica Conti , Stefania Gatti , Andrea Giorgini , Giulio Schimperna

We establish sharp stability results for of non--selfadjoint the ascent and descent spectra under strong resolvent convergence (SRS), a natural framework for finite element approximations of non-selfadjoint and singularly perturbed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Marwa Ennaceur

We reconsider the unique continuation property for a general class of tensorial Klein-Gordon equations of the form \begin{align*} \Box_{g} \phi + \sigma \phi = \mathcal{G}(\phi,\nabla \phi) \text{,} \qquad \sigma \in \mathbb{R} \end{align*}…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Athanasios Chatzikaleas , Arick Shao

We investigate the existence and spectral stability of traveling wave solutions for a class of fourth-order semilinear wave equations, commonly referred to as beam equations. Using variational methods based on a constrained maximization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Vishnu Iyer , Ross Parker , Atanas G. Stefanov

The spectral problem associated with the linearization about solitary waves of spinor systems or optical coupled mode equations supporting gap solitons is formulated in terms of the Evans function, a complex analytic function whose zeros…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gianne Derks , Georg A. Gottwald

In this paper, we consider the spatially inhomogeneous diffusively driven inelastic Boltzmann equation in different cases: the restitution coefficient can be constant or can depend on the impact velocity (which is a more physically relevant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Isabelle Tristani

This work deals with a scalar nonlinear neutral delay differential equation issued from the study of wave propagation. A critical value of the coefficients is considered, where only few results are known. The difficulty follows from the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Stéphane Junca , Bruno Lombard

In this paper, we identify criteria that guarantees the nonlinear orbital stability of a given periodic traveling wave solution within the b-family Camassa-Holm equation. These periodic waves exist as 3-parameter families (up to spatial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Brett Ehrman , Mathew A. Johnson

In this study, we present a comprehensive global spectral analysis of the convection dispersion equation, which is also referred to in specific contexts as the Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation, to investigate the behaviour of high order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Lavanya V Salian , Vivek S Yadav , Rathan Samala , Rakesh Kumar

In the framework of hyperbolic conservation laws regularised by including diffusive and dispersive terms, we study monotone travelling waves for the generalised Rosenau-Korteweg de Vries equation. We establish existence as well as linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Gnord Maypaokha , Nabil Bedjaoui , Joaquim M. C. Correia , Michael Grinfeld

We study the existence and stability of periodic traveling-wave solutions for complex modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. We also discuss the problem of uniform continuity of the data-solution mapping.

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-10-30 Sevdzhan Hakkaev , Iliya D. Iliev , Kiril Kirchev

We prove a sufficient condition for nonlinear stability of relative equilibria in the planar $N$-vortex problem. This result builds on our previous work on the Hamiltonian formulation of its relative dynamics as a Lie--Poisson system. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Tomoki Ohsawa

In this paper, we study the stability of various difference approximations of the Euler-Korteweg equations. This system of evolution PDEs is a classical isentropic Euler system perturbed by a dispersive (third order) term. The Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Pascal Noble , Jean-Paul Vila