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In this article, we investigate observability-related properties of the Korteweg-de Vries equation with a discontinuous main coefficient, coupled by suitable interface conditions. The main result is a novel two-parameter Carleman estimate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Cristóbal Loyola

We investigate stability the dynamical properties of one-dimensional interwires polar soliton molecules in a biwire setup with dipole moments aligned perpendicularly to the line of motion and in opposite directions in different wires.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-08-06 Khelifa Mohammed Elhadj , Abdelaali Boudjemaa , U. Al Khawaja

The goal of this work is to determine classes of traveling solitary wave solutions for Lattice Boltzmann schemes by means of an hyperbolic ansatz. It is shown that spurious solitary waves can occur in finite-difference solutions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Claire David , Pierre Sagaut

We address Euler's equations for irrotational gravity waves in an infinitely deep fluid rewritten in conformal variables. Stokes waves are traveling waves with the smooth periodic profile. In agreement with the previous numerical results,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Sergey Dyachenko , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We study existence of helical solitons in the vector modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equations, one of which is integrable, whereas another one is non-integrable. The latter one describes nonlinear waves in various physical systems,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Yury A. Stepanyants

Spiral wave patterns observed in models of cardiac arrhythmias and chemical oscillations develop alternans and stationary line defects, which can both be thought of as period-doubling instabilities. These instabilities are observed on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Stephanie Dodson , Bjorn Sandstede

In this paper, we prove the nonlinear stability under localized perturbations of spectrally stable time-periodic source defects of reaction-diffusion systems. Consisting of a core that emits periodic wave trains to each side, source defects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Margaret Beck , Toan T. Nguyen , Björn Sandstede , Kevin Zumbrun

We consider the KP-I and gKP-I equations in $\mathbb{R}\times (\mathbb{R}/2\pi \mathbb{Z})$. We prove that the KdV soliton with subcritical speed $0<c<c^*$ is orbitally stable under the global KP-I flow constructed by Ionescu and Kenig…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Frédéric Rousset , Nikolay Tzvetkov

We explore a prototypical two-dimensional model of the nonlinear Dirac type and examine its solitary wave and vortex solutions. In addition to identifying the stationary states, we provide a systematic spectral stability analysis,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-06-01 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena , A. Comech , R. Lan

This paper studies the behavior of solitons in the Korteweg-de Vries equation under the influence of multiplicative noise. We introduce stochastic processes that track the amplitude and position of solitons based on a rescaled frame…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Rik W. S. Westdorp , Hermen Jan Hupkes

The Novikov-Veselov (NV) equation is a dispersive (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear evolution equation that generalizes the (1+1)-dimensional Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation. This paper considers the stability of plane wave soliton solutions of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-05 Ryan Croke , Jennifer Mueller , Andreas Stahel

The relevance of perturbed forms of the Korteweg-de Vries equation to a range of physical problems is discussed. Solutions which are perturbations of solitary travelling wave solutions are then considered, focussing predominantly on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-24 Paul Hammerton , Dane Grundy

Asymptotic stability is with no doubts an essential property to be studied for any system. This analysis often becomes very difficult for coupled systems and even harder when different timescales appear. The singular perturbation method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Swann Marx , Eduardo Cerpa

We consider stability of periodic travelling waves in the generalized reduced Ostrovsky equation with respect to co-periodic perturbations. Compared to the recent literature, we give a simple argument that proves spectral stability of all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Anna Geyer , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

This work is divided into two parts. First, we analyze the existence of positive bound and ground states for a second order stationary system coming from a coupled system of nonlinear Schr\"odinger--Korteweg-de Vries equations. Second, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Rasiel Fabelo

We review asymptotic stability of solitary waves for nonlinear dispersive equations set on the line. Our focus is threefold: first, the nonlinear Schrodinger equation; second, the notion of full asymptotic stability (which states that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Pierre Germain

We consider the interplay between nonlocal nonlinearity and randomness for two different nonlinear Schr\"odinger models. We show that stability of bright solitons in presence of random perturbations increases dramatically with the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-06-07 F. Maucher , W. Krolikowski , S. Skupin

Contraction-driven self-propulsion of a large class of living cells can be modeled by a Keller-Segel system with free boundaries. The ensuing "active" system, exhibiting both dissipation and anti-dissipation, features stationary and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Leonid Berlyand , C. Alex Safsten , Lev Truskinovsky

The work presented here emanates from questions arising from experimental observations of the propagation of surface water waves. The experiments in question featured a periodically moving wavemaker located at one end of a flume that…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2019-06-13 Jerry L. Bona , Jonatan Lenells

We modify the nonlinear shallow water equations, the Korteweg-de Vries equation, and the Whitham equation, to permit constant vorticity, and examine wave breaking, or the lack thereof. By wave breaking, we mean that the solution remains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Vera Mikyoung Hur