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This note is devoted to the linear stability of the Couette flow for the non-isentropic compressible Euler equations in a domain $\mathbb{T}\times \mathbb{R}$. Exploiting the several conservation laws originated from the special structure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Xiaoping Zhai

We study the nonlinear dynamics of the kinetic wave equation associated to the FPU problem and prove stability of the non-singular Rayleigh-Jeans equilibria. The lack of a spectral gap for the linearized problem leads to polynomial decay,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Pierre Germain , Joonhyun La , Angeliki Menegaki

The maximization of the (generalized) Rayleigh quotient is a central problem in numerical linear algebra. Conventional algorithms for its computation typically rely on matrix-adjoint products, making them sensitive to errors arising from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Jonas Bresch , Oleh Melnyk , Martin Schoen , Gabriele Steidl

Variational principles play a fundamental role in deriving evolution equations of physics. They are working well in case of nondissipative evolution but for dissipative systems they are not unique, not predictive and not constructive. With…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-02 Péter Ván , Róbert Kovács

We examine the generation and subsequent evolution of Rayleigh Taylor instability in anisotropic binary Bose-Einstein condensates. Considering a pancake-shaped geometry, to initiate the instability we tune the intraspecies interaction and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-10-02 Arko Roy , S. Gautam , D. Angom

We describe a method to extract from experimental data the important dynamical modes in spatio-temporal patterns in a system driven out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Using a novel optical technique for controlling fluid flow, we create an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-05-03 Adam C. Perkins , Roman O. Grigoriev , Michael F. Schatz

The effect of rotation upon the classical two-layer Rayleigh-Taylor instability is considered theoretically and compared with previous experimental results. In particular we consider a two-layer system with an axis of rotation that is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-03 Matthew M. Scase , Kyle A. Baldwin , Richard J. A. Hill

We introduce a stochastic fractional calculus. As an application, we present a stochastic fractional calculus of variations, which generalizes the fractional calculus of variations to stochastic processes. A stochastic fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-10 Houssine Zine , Delfim F. M. Torres

An extension of the finite and infinite Lie groups properties of complex numbers and functions of complex variable is proposed. This extension is performed exploiting hypercomplex number systems that follow the elementary algebra rules. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Catoni , Paolo Zampetti

The theory of string-like continuous curves and discrete chains have numerous important physical applications. Here we develop a general geometrical approach, to systematically derive Hamiltonian energy functions for these objects. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Shuangwei Hu , Ying Jiang , Antti J. Niemi

In this work, we systematically generalize the Evans function methodology to address vector systems of discrete equations. We physically motivate and mathematically use as our case example a vector form of the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 V. M. Rothos , P. G. Kevrekidis

We derive a self-consistent hydrodynamic theory of coupled binary-fluid-surfactant systems from the underlying microscopic physics using Rayleigh's variational principle. At the microscopic level, surfactant molecules are modelled as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-25 Alexandra J. Hardy , Samuel Cameron , Steven McDonald , Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Elsen Tjhung

Unitary representations of the Galilei group are studied in phase space, in order to describe classical and quantum systems. Conditions to write in general form the generator of time translation and Lagrangians in phase space are then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 M. C. B. Fernandes , F. C. Khanna , M. G. R. Martins , A. E. Santana , J. D. M. Vianna

In high-energy physics, coordinate noncommutativity represents the core idea that space itself can be quantized, as expressed through the frameworks of string theory and noncommutative field theory. Influence of such a noncommutativity on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Salim Medjber , Hacene Bekkar , Salah Menouar , Jeong Ryeol Choi

We perform a bifurcation analysis of the steady states of Rayleigh--B\'enard convection with no-slip boundary conditions in two dimensions using a numerical method called deflated continuation. By combining this method with an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-19 Nicolas Boullé , Vassilios Dallas , Patrick E. Farrell

We have previously formulated a simple criterion for deducing the intervals of oscillations in the solutions of second-order linear homogeneous differential equations. In this work, we extend analytically the same criterion to the cubic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 Qutaibeh D. Katatbeh , Dimitris M. Christodoulou

We define a nonlinear thermodynamical formalism which translates into dynamical system theory the statistical mechanics of generalized mean-field models, extending investigation of the quadratic case by Leplaideur and Watbled. Under…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Jérôme Buzzi , Benoît Kloeckner , Renaud Leplaideur

The threshold conditions to convective instability in a semi-infinite porous layer saturated by a fluid are determined. The classical setup for this problem in geothermal fluid dynamics was originally modelled by Wooding in 1960. Its…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-30 A. Barletta , D. A. S. Rees

We consider the four waves spatial homogeneous kinetic equation arising in wave turbulence theory. We study the long-time behaviour and existence of solutions around the Rayleigh-Jeans equilibrium solutions. For cut-off'd frequencies, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Angeliki Menegaki

The conceptual picture underlying resolvent analysis(RA) is that the nonlinear term in the Navier-Stokes(NS) equations provides an intrinsic forcing to the linear dynamics, a description inspired by control theory. The inverse of the linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-28 Benedikt Barthel , Salvador Gomez , Beverley McKeon