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We study a semi-classical Schr{\"o}dinger equation which describes the dynamics of an electron in a crystal in the presence of impurities. It is well-known that under suitable assumptions on the initial data, the wave function can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Victor Chabu , Clotilde Fermanian-Kammerer , Fabricio Macià

We present a statistical description of the propagation of short pulses in long optical fibers, taking into account the Kerr and nonlocal nonlinearities on an equal footing. We use the Wigner approach on the modified nonlinear Schroedinger…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. K. Shukla , M. Marklund

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) of the defocusing radial nonlinear Schr\"odinger (rNLS) equation in two spatial dimensions are studied. This equation arises naturally in Bose-Einstein condensates, water waves and nonlinear optics. A unified…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-07-19 Mark J. Ablowitz , Justin T. Cole , Igor Rumanov

In this paper, we study the nonlinear periodic Westervelt equation with excitations located within a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$, where $d \in \{2,3\}$, subject to Robin boundary conditions. This problem is of particular interest for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Benjamin Rainer , Barbara Kaltenbacher

In this Series, we study the weakly nonlinear dynamics of chemically active particles near the threshold for spontaneous motion. In this part, we focus on steady solutions and develop an `adjoint method' for deriving the nonlinear amplitude…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-18 Ory Schnitzer

The semiclassical limit of the derivative nonlinear Schrodinger equation with periodic initial conditions is studied analytically and numerically. The spectrum of the associated scattering problem for a certain class of initial conditions,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-12-01 Zachery Wolski , Zechuan Zhang , Gino Biondini , Gregor Kovačič

The Whitham equation was proposed as a model for surface water waves that combines the quadratic flux nonlinearity $f(u) = \tfrac{1}{2}u^2$ of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and the full linear dispersion relation $\Omega(k) = \sqrt{k\tanh…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-01 Adam L. Binswanger , Mark A. Hoefer , Boaz Ilan , Patrick Sprenger

The Whitham equation is a nonlocal, nonlinear partial differential equation that models the temporal evolution of spatial profiles of surface displacement of water waves. However, many laboratory and field measurements record time series at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 John D. Carter , Diane Henderson , Panayotis Panayotaros

We theoretically describe the quasi one-dimensional transverse spreading of a light pulse propagating in a nonlinear optical material in the presence of a uniform background light intensity. For short propagation distances the pulse can be…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-30 M. Isoard , A. M. Kamchatnov , N. Pavloff

We consider nonlinear Schrodinger equations with either local or nonlocal nonlinearities. In addition, we include periodic potentials as used, for example, in matter wave experiments in optical lattices. By considering the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-08 Rémi Carles , Christof Sparber

We establish nonlinear stability and asymptotic behavior of traveling periodic waves of viscous conservation laws under localized perturbations or nonlocalized perturbations asymptotic to constant shifts in phase, showing that long-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-12 Mathew A. Johnson , Pascal Noble , L. Miguel Rodrigues , Kevin Zumbrun

The generation of finite energy packets of X-waves is analysed in normally dispersive cubic media by using an X-wave expansion. The 3D nonlinear Schroedinger model is reduced to a 1D equation with anomalous dispersion. Pulse splitting and…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Claudio Conti

An initial-boundary value problem for a model of stimulated Raman scattering was considered in [Moskovchenko E.A., Kotlyarov V.P., J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43 (2010), 055205, 31 pages]. The authors showed that in the long-time range…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 Rustem R. Aydagulov , Alexander A. Minakov

This paper is concerned with the detailed behaviour of roll-waves undergoing a low-frequency perturbation. We rst derive the so-called Whitham's averaged modulation equations and relate the well-posedness of this set of equations to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Pascal Noble , Luis Miguel Rodrigues

The addition of higher order asymptotic corrections to the Korteweg-de Vries equation results in the extended Korteweg-de Vries equation. These higher order terms destabilise the dispersive shock wave solution, also termed an undular bore…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-02-15 Saleh Baqer , Noel F. Smyth

This paper investigates the initial-boundary value problem for weakly coupled systems of time-fractional subdiffusion equations with spatially and temporally varying coupling coefficients. By combining the energy method with the coercivity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Kazuma Wada

We solve the Cauchy problem for the Korteweg-de Vries equation with initial conditions which are steplike Schwartz-type perturbations of finite-gap potentials under the assumption that the respective spectral bands either coincide or are…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-09-09 Iryna Egorova , Katrin Grunert , Gerald Teschl

A slightly modified variant of the cubic periodic one-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equation is shown to admit weak solutions for all initial data in certain function spaces wider than L^2. These solutions depend uniformly continuously…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Christ

The small dispersion limit of solutions to the Camassa-Holm (CH) equation is characterized by the appearance of a zone of rapid modulated oscillations. An asymptotic description of these oscillations is given, for short times, by the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-08 S. Abenda , T. Grava , C. Klein

This study employs spectral methods to capture the behaviour of wave equation with dispersive-nonlinearity. We describe the evolution of hump initial data and track the conservation of the mass and energy functionals. The…

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