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We study the existence and stability of periodic traveling-wave solutions for the quadratic and cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations in one space dimension.

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A two-dimensional generalized cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with complex coefficients for the group dispersion and nonlinear terms is used to investigate the evolution of a finite-amplitude localized initial perturbation. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dian Zhao , M. Y. Yu

Solitary waves in a general nonlinear lattice are discussed, employing as a model the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a spatially periodic nonlinear coefficient. An asymptotic theory is developed for long solitary waves, that span a…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-05 Guenbo Hwang , T. R. Akylas , Jianke Yang

It is shown how to compute the instability rates for the double-periodic solutions to the cubic NLS (nonlinear Schrodinger) equation by using the Lax linear equations. The wave function modulus of the double-periodic solutions is periodic…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-01-01 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

The two-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation admits a large family of one-dimensional bounded traveling-wave solutions. All such solutions may be written in terms of an amplitude and a phase. Solutions with piecewise constant…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Roger J. Thelwell , John D. Carter , Bernard Deconinck

We introduce spatiotemporal optical dark X solitary waves of the (2+1)D {hyperbolic} nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE), that rules wave propagation in a self-focusing and normally dispersive medium. These analytical solutions are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-01 F. Baronio , S. Wabnitz , S. Chen , M. Onorato , S. Trillo , Y. Kodama

We prove the existence of a new type of solutions to a nonlinear Schr\"odinger system. These solutions, which we call "multi-speeds solitary waves", are behaving at large time as a couple of scalar solitary waves traveling at different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Isabella Ianni , Stefan Le Coz

In this paper, we study the nonlinear dispersive waves including the rarefaction and dispersive shock waves in the discrete modified KdV equation through the numerical simulations of the dispersive Riemann problems. In particular, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-06 Su Yang

We study stability of solitary wave solutions for the fractional generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation $$ \partial_t u- \partial_{x_1} D^{\alpha}u+ \tfrac{1}{m}\partial_{x_1}(u^m)=0, ~ (x_1,\dots,x_d)\in \mathbb{R}^d, \, \, t\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Oscar Riaño , Svetlana Roudenko

We show global asymptotic stability of solitary waves of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in space dimension 1. Furthermore, the radiation is shown to exhibit long range scattering if the nonlinearity is cubic at the origin, or standard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Charles Collot , Pierre Germain

The parametrically driven, damped nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation has two cn- and two dn-wave solutions. We show that one pair of the cn and dn solutions is unstable for any combination of the driver's strength, dissipation coefficient and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-01-04 I. V. Barashenkov , M. A. Molchan

The linear stability of rapid granular flow on a slope under gravity against the longitudinal perturbation is analyzed using hydrodynamic equations. It is demonstrated that the steady flow uniform along the flow direction becomes unstable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Namiko Mitarai , Hiizu Nakanishi

We develop a stability theory for two-dimensional periodic traveling waves of general parabolic systems, possibly including conservation laws. In particular, we identify a diffusive spectral stability assumption and prove that it implies…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 L. Miguel Rodrigues , Aric Wheeler

The $2$D Benney-Luke equation is an isotropic model which describes long water waves of small amplitude in $3$D whereas the KP-II equation is a unidirectional model for long waves with slow variation in the transverse direction. In the case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Tetsu Mizumachi , Yusuke Shimabukuro

In this paper, we investigate the spectral instability of periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation to long wavelength transverse perturbations in the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation. By…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-09 Mathew A. Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

The propagation of small amplitude stationary profile nonlinear solitary waves in a pair plasma is investigated employing the reductive perturbation technique via well-known Korteweg de Vries (KdV) and modified KdV (mKdV) equations, we tend…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Tanvir I. Rajib

We consider the periodic standing waves in the derivative nonlinear Schrodinger (DNLS) equation arising in plasma physics. By using a newly developed algebraic method with two eigenvalues, we classify all periodic standing waves in terms of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-05-19 Jinbing Chen , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Jeremy Upsal

The extended KdV equation is a nonlinear dispersive wave model that is asymptotically or variationally derived from the full dispersive Euler shallow water waves equations when gravity-capillary and higher order nonlinear effects are taken…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-15 Saleh Baqer , Hamid Said

We study travelling wave solutions to Korteweg--de Vries type equations which have double power nonlinearities with integer indices, such as the Gardner equation, and fractional dispersion. Whether these equations have ground state…

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