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Our aim in the present work is to develop approximations for the collisional dynamics of traveling waves in the context of granular chains in the presence of precompression. To that effect, we aim to quantify approximations of the relevant…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 Y. Shen , P. G. Kevrekidis , S. Sen , A. Hoffman

In the present work we study the nucleation of Dispersive shock waves (DSW) in the {defocusing}, discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (DNLS), a model of wide relevance to nonlinear optics and atomic condensates. Here, we study the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-11 Shrohan Mohapatra , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Su Yang , Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli

Dissipationless hydrodynamics regularized by dispersion describe a number of physical media including water waves, nonlinear optics, and Bose-Einstein condensates. As in the classical theory of hyperbolic equations where a non-convex flux…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer

The aim of this article is to study the attenuation of transient low-frequency waves in 2D lattices in both plane and antiplane problems. The main idea of this article is that analytical solutions to problems of mechanics of discrete…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-01-31 Nadezhda I. Aleksandrova

Discrete wave mechanics describes the evolution of classical or matter waves on a lattice, which is governed by a discretized version of the Schr\"odinger equation. While for a vanishing lattice spacing wave evolution of the continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Stefano Longhi

This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions and asymptotic spreading of delayed lattice differential equations without quasimonotonicity. The spreading speed is obtained by constructing auxiliary equations and using the theory…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-07 Shuxia Pan

Originally a model for wave propagation on the line, the Toda lattice is a wonderful case study in mechanics and symplectic geometry. In Flaschka's variables, it becomes an evolution given by a Lax pair on the vector space of real,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-08-14 Carlos Tomei

Dispersive shock waves (DSW) are a salient feature of long water waves often observed in tidal bores and tsunami/meteotsunami contexts. Their interaction with bathymetry is poorly understood. The shoreline hazard from tsunamis and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-13 Alex. Sheremet , Victor I. Shrira

The one-dimensional piston shock problem is a classical result of shock wave theory. In this work, the analogous dispersive shock wave (DSW) problem for a dispersive fluid described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is analyzed.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-08-12 M. A. Hoefer , M. J. Ablowitz , P. Engels

The thermomagnetic instability of the critical state in superconductors is analysed with account of the dissipation and dispersion. The possibility is demonstrated of the existance of a nonlinear shok wave describing the final stage of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 N. A. Taylanov

A system of first-order differential-difference equations with time lag describes the formation of density waves, called as quasi-solitons for dissipative systems in this paper. For co-moving density waves, the system reduces to some…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuji Igarashi , Katsmi Itoh , Ken Nakanishi , Kazuhiro Ogura , Ken Yokokawa

This work comes as the second part in a series of investigations into the dynamics of rotating waves as solutions to lattice dynamical systems. Such nonlinear waves as solutions to mathematical equations are of great interest throughout the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Jason J. Bramburger

In this paper we consider the Toda lattice $(\boldsymbol{p}(t); \boldsymbol{q}(t))$ at thermal equilibrium, meaning that its variables $(p_i)$ and $(e^{q_i-q_{i+1}})$ are independent Gaussian and Gamma random variables, respectively. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Amol Aggarwal

We demonstrate that a staggered parametric ac driving term can support stable progressive motion of a soliton in a Toda lattice with friction, while an unstaggered drivng force cannot. A physical context of the model is that of a chain of…

We give a survey of the long-time asymptotics for the Toda lattice with steplike constant initial data using the nonlinear steepest descent analysis and its extension based on a suitably chosen $g$-function. Analytic formulas for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Johanna Michor

We study the propagation of sound waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We find that the velocity of propagation of sound wavepackets decreases with increasing optical lattice depth, as predicted…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Menotti , M. Kramer , A. Smerzi , L. Pitaevskii , S. Stringari

In the present work we revisit the shock wave dynamics in a granular chain with precompression. By approximating the model by an $\alpha$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain, we leverage the connection of the latter in the strain variable…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-11-12 C. Chong , A. Geisler , P. G. Kevrekidis , G. Biondini

The paper studies the interaction of a longitudinal wave with transverse waves in general isotropic and unconstrained hyperelastic materials, including the possibility of dissipation. The dissipative term chosen is similar to the classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-25 Michel Destrade , Giuseppe Saccomandi

The Stokes wave problem in a constant vorticity flow is formulated via a conformal mapping as a modified Babenko equation. The associated linearized operator is self-adjoint, whereby efficiently solved by the Newton-conjugate gradient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-12 Sergey A. Dyachenko , Vera Mikyoung Hur

In this paper we consider the Toda lattice $(\mathbf{p}(t);\mathbf{q}(t))$ at thermal equilibrium, meaning that its variables $(p_j)$ and $(e^{q_j-q_{j+1}})$ are independent Gaussian and Gamma random variables, respectively. We show under…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Amol Aggarwal , Matthew Nicoletti