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We demonstrate that the method of coupled Gaussian wave packets is a full-fledged alternative to direct numerical solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation of condensates with electromagnetically induced attractive 1/r interaction, or with…

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We consider the non-monotone degenerate diffusion equation with time delay. Different from the linear diffusion equation, the degenerate equation allows for semi-compactly supported traveling waves. In particular, we discover…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Tianyuan Xu , Shanming Ji , Ming Mei , Jingxue Yin

Continuing a line of investigation initiated by Texier and Zumbrun on dynamics of viscous shock and detonation waves, we show that a linearly unstable Lax-type viscous shock solution of a semilinear strictly parabolic system of conservation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-11-10 Kevin Zumbrun

This paper is concerned with the stability of standing waves for the mass-critical Hartree equation with a focusing perturbation by the variational method. The profile decomposition theory is employed to prove the attainability of the cross…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Guoyi Fu , Shanshan Fu , Xiaoguang Li , Jian Zhang , Shihui Zhu

We are concerned with the dynamical behavior of solutions to semilinear wave systems with time-varying damping and nonconvex force potential. Our result shows that the dynamical behavior of solution is asymptotically stable without any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Zhe Jiao , Yong Xu , Lijing Zhao

Bose-Einstein condensates with an attractive 1/r interaction and with dipole-dipole interaction are investigated in the framework of the Gaussian variational ansatz introduced by S. Rau, J. Main, and G. Wunner [Phys. Rev. A, submitted]. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-08-17 Stefan Rau , Jörg Main , Holger Cartarius , Patrick Köberle , Günter Wunner

We consider a delay differential equation that occurs in the study of chronic myelogenous leukemia. After shortly reminding some previous results concerning the stability of equilibrium solutions, we concentrate on the study of stability of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Anca-Veronica Ion , Raluca-Mihaela Georgescu

We apply spectral stability theory to investigate nonlinear gravity waves in the atmosphere. These waves are determined by modulation equations that result from Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin theory. First, we establish that plane waves, which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-25 Mark Schlutow , Erik Wahlén , Philipp Birken

We consider the modulationally stable version of the Kaup-Boussinesq system which models propagation of nonlinear waves in various physical systems. It is shown that the Whitham modulation equations for this model have a new type of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-10-12 Sergey K. Ivanov , Anatoly M. Kamchatnov

We present a method to compute dispersive shock wave solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation that emerge from initial data with step-like boundary conditions at infinity. We derive two different Riemann-Hilbert problems associated with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Deniz Bilman , Thomas Trogdon

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

Strong discontinuities in solutions of the gas dynamic equations under isentropic conditions, i.e., with continuity of entropy at the discontinuity, are examined. Solutions for a standard shock wave with continuity of energy at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-28 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , S. G. Moiseenko

A new type of instability - electrokinetic instability - and an unusual transition to chaotic motion near a charge-selective surface was studied by numerical integration of the Nernst-Planck-Poisson-Stokes system and a weakly nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-17 E. A. Demekhin , N. V. Nikitin , V. S. Shelistov

We demonstrate that the amplitudes of optical solitons in nonlinear multisequence optical waveguide coupler systems with weak linear and cubic gain-loss exhibit large stable oscillations along ultra-long distances. The large stable…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-03-28 Avner Peleg , Debananda Chakraborty

When the steady states at infinity become unstable through a pattern forming bifurcation, a travelling wave may bifurcate into a modulated front which is time-periodic in a moving frame. This scenario has been studied by B.Sandstede and…

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We examine the dynamics of solutions to nonlinear Schrodinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equations that arise due to Hamiltonian Hopf (HH) bifurcations--the collision of pairs of eigenvalues on the imaginary axis. To this end, we use inverse…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 Roy H. Goodman

Extending results of Oh and Zumbrun in dimensions $d\ge 3$, we establish nonlinear stability and asymptotic behavior of spatially-periodic traveling-wave solutions of viscous systems of conservation laws in critical dimensions $d=1,2$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-08 Mathew A. Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

Many physical systems exhibit limit cycle oscillations induced by Hopf bifurcations. In aerospace engineering, limit cycle oscillations arise from undesirable Hopf bifurcation phenomena such as aeroelastic flutter and transonic buffet. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Sicheng He , Max Howell , Daning Huang , Eirikur Jonsson , Galen W. Ng , Joaquim R. R. A. Martins

In this paper, we analyse the dynamics of a pattern-forming system close to simultaneous Turing and Turing--Hopf instabilities, which have a 1:1 spatial resonance, that is, they have the same critical wave number. For this, we consider a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Bastian Hilder , Christian Kuehn

We present a new method for analyzing the global stability of the Sedov-von Neumann-Taylor self-similar solutions, describing the asymptotic behavior of spherical decelerating shock waves, expanding into ideal gas with density \propto…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Doron Kushnir , Eli Waxman , Dov Shvarts