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We study the evolution of an accelerating hyperrelativistic shock under the presence of upstream inhomogeneities wrinkling the discontinuity surface. The investigation is conducted by means of numerical simulations using the PLUTO code for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Palma , A. Mignone , M. Vietri , L. Del Zanna

We consider the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in the fully resonant case (absence of the zero-mass term). We investigate conservation of small amplitude periodic-solutions for a large…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Guido Gentile , Michela Procesi

We examine the general question of statistical changes experienced by ensembles of nonlinear random waves propagating in systems ruled by integrable equations. In our study that enters within the framework of integrable turbulence, we…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 S. Randoux , P. Walczak , M. Onorato , P. Suret

A model of nonlinear elastic medium with internal structure is considered. The medium is assumed to contain cavities, microcracks or blotches of substances that differ sharply in physical properties from the base material. To describe the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-09-10 Vsevolod A. Vladimirov , Sergii Skurativskyi

We propose an approach to nonlinear evolution equations with large and decaying external potentials that addresses the question of controlling globally-in-time the nonlinear interactions of localized waves in this setting. This problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Fabio Pusateri , Avy Soffer

We study hyperbolic systems of one-dimensional partial differential equations under general, possibly non-local boundary conditions. A large class of evolution equations, either on individual 1-dimensional intervals or on general networks,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Marjeta Kramar Fijavž , Delio Mugnolo , Serge Nicaise

We derive rigorously the non-linear macroscopic system associated to a microscopic system of coupled quintic Schr\"odinger equations in the framework of discrete wave turbulence under a particular scaling law that describes the limiting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Shayan Zahedi

We extend the evolution mapping approach, originally proposed by Sanchez (2022) to describe non-linear matter density fluctuations, to statistics of the cosmic velocity field. This framework classifies cosmological parameters into shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Matteo Esposito , Ariel G. Sánchez , Julien Bel , Andrés N. Ruiz

Stroboscopic wavepacket basis sets [P. Bokes, F. Corsetti, R. W. Godby, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046402 (2008)] are specifically tailored for a description of time-dependent processes in extended systems like non-periodic geometries of various…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-27 P. Bokes

We study the dispersive properties of a linear equation in one spatial dimension which is inspired by models in peridynamics. The interplay between nonlocality and dispersion is analyzed in detail through the study of the asymptotics at low…

We consider one-dimensional hyperbolic PDEs, linear and nonlinear, with random initial data. Our focus is the {\em pointwise statistics,} i.e., the probability measure of the solution at any fixed point in space and time. For linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Alina Chertock , Pierre Degond , Amir Sagiv , Li Wang

This thesis deals with some theoretical aspects of deterministic freak wave generation in the wave basin of a hydrodynamic laboratory. We adopt the spatial nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation as a mathematical model to describe the deformation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-02 Natanael Karjanto

Wave front propagation with non-trivial bottom topography is studied within the formalism of hyperbolic long wave models. Evolution of non-smooth initial data is examined, and in particular the splitting of singular points and their short…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 R. Camassa , R. D'Onofrio , G. Falqui , G. Ortenzi , M. Pedroni

Pattern formation often occurs in spatially extended physical, biological and chemical systems due to an instability of the homogeneous steady state. The type of the instability usually prescribes the resulting spatio-temporal patterns and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-04-14 David Schueler , Sergio Alonso , Alessandro Torcini , Markus Baer

We study the nonlinear wave dynamics of one-dimensional chains of polycatenated rings. These interlocked structures support amplitude-dependent nonlinear wave propagation driven by tensile activation and internal structural flexibility,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Xiaoxiao Xiong , Reo Yanagi , Tingtao Zhou , Chiara Daraio

The dynamics of quantum systems can be approximated by the time propagation of Gaussian wave packets. Applying a time dependent variational principle, the time evolution of the parameters of the coupled Gaussian wave packets can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-01 T. Fabcic , J. Main , G. Wunner

We represent a version of multidimensional quasilinear partial differential equation (PDE) together with large manifold of particular solutions given in an integral form. The dimensionality of constructed PDE can be arbitrary. We call it…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-18 A. I. Zenchuk

The famous Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion model combines linear diffusion with the typical KPP reaction term, and appears in a number of relevant applications in biology and chemistry. It is remarkable as a mathematical model since it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vázquez

The stability properties of one-dimensional radiative shocks with a power-law cooling function of the form $\Lambda \propto \rho^2T^\alpha$ are the main subject of this work. The linear analysis originally presented by Chevalier & Imamura,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Mignone

Propagation of elastic waves in damaged media (concrete, rocks) is studied theoretically and numerically. Such materials exhibit a nonlinear behavior, with long-time softening and recovery processes (slow dynamics). A constitutive model…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-04-26 Harold Berjamin , Bruno Lombard , Guillaume Chiavassa , Nicolas Favrie