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We prove that all irrotational planar periodic traveling waves of sufficiently small-amplitude are spectrally unstable as solutions to three-dimensional inviscid finite-depth gravity water-waves equations., Comment: 29 pages, 1 figure

We develop a complete stability theory for two-dimensional periodic traveling waves of reaction-diffusion systems. More precisely, we identify a diffusive spectral stability assumption, prove that it implies nonlinear stability and provide a sharp asymptotic description of the dynamics resulting from both localized and critically nonlocalized perturbations. In particular, we show that the long-time behavior is governed at leading order by a second-order Whitham modulation system and elucidate how the intertwining of diffusive and dispersive effects may enhance decay rates. The latter requires a non trivial extension of the large-time estimates for constant-coefficient hyperbolic-parabolic operators to some classes of systems with no particular structure, including on one hand systems with a scalar-like - but not scalar - hyperbolic part and a cross-diffusion, and on the other hand anisotropic systems with dispersion.

We fill the two main remaining gaps in the full classification of non-degenerate planar traveling waves of scalar balance laws from the point of view of spectral and nonlinear stability/instability under smooth perturbations. On one hand we investigate the impact on the classification of allowing to restrict perturbations by further localization constraints, the so-called convective stability analysis. On the other hand, in the multidimensional case we extend the existing analysis to general perturbations, relaxing the artificial restriction, assumed so far, that initial perturbations are supported away from characteristic points. A striking feature of the latter analysis is that it involves infinite-dimensional families of genuinely multidimensional traveling waves that live near the perturbed planar traveling wave., Comment: 27 pages, 1 figure

We experimentally demonstrate resonance of first-order vector vortex beams (VVB) with a triangular optical cavity. We also show that, due to their symmetry properties, the so-called radial and azimuthal VVBs do not resonate at the same cavity length, which could be explored to use the triangular resonator as a mode sorter. In addition, an intracavity Pancharatnam phase shifter (PPS) is implemented in order to compensate for any birefringent phase that the cavity mirrors may introduce.

Extending work of Yang-Zumbrun for the hydrodynamically stable case of Froude number F < 2, we categorize completely the existence and convective stability of hydraulic shock profiles of the Saint Venant equations of inclined thin-film flow. Moreover, we confirm by numerical experiment that asymptotic dynamics for general Riemann data is given in the hydrodynamic instability regime by either stable hydraulic shock waves, or a pattern consisting of an invading roll wave front separated by a finite terminating Lax shock from a constant state at plus infinity. Notably, profiles, and existence and stability diagrams are all rigorously obtained by mathematical analysis and explicit calculation.

In this note, we extend the detailed study of the linearized dynamics obtained for cnoidal waves of the Korteweg--de Vries equation in \cite{JFA-R} to small-amplitude periodic traveling waves of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations that are not subject to Benjamin--Feir instability. With the adapted notion of stability, this provides for such waves, global-in-time bounded stability in any Sobolev space, and asymptotic stability of dispersive type. When doing so, we actually prove that such results also hold for waves of arbitrary amplitude satisfying a form of spectral stability designated here as dispersive spectral stability., Comment: 15 pages

We study for the Richard-Gavrilyuk model of inclined shallow water flow, an extension of the classical Saint Venant equations incorporating vorticity, the new feature of convective-wave solutions analogous to contact discontinuitis in inviscid conservation laws. These are traveling waves for which fluid velocity is constant and equal to the speed of propagation of the wave, but fluid height and/or enstrophy (thus vorticity) varies. Together with hydraulic shocks, they play an important role in the structure of Riemann solutions., Comment: 35 pages, 10 figures

This work proposes the use of Genetic Algorithms (GA) in tracing and recognizing the pericardium contour of the human heart using Computed Tomography (CT) images. We assume that each slice of the pericardium can be modelled by an ellipse, the parameters of which need to be optimally determined. An optimal ellipse would be one that closely follows the pericardium contour and, consequently, separates appropriately the epicardial and mediastinal fats of the human heart. Tracing and automatically identifying the pericardium contour aids in medical diagnosis. Usually, this process is done manually or not done at all due to the effort required. Besides, detecting the pericardium may improve previously proposed automated methodologies that separate the two types of fat associated to the human heart. Quantification of these fats provides important health risk marker information, as they are associated with the development of certain cardiovascular pathologies. Finally, we conclude that GA offers satisfiable solutions in a feasible amount of processing time.

For strictly entropic Riemann shock solutions of strictly hyperbolic systems of balance laws, we prove that exponential spectral stability implies large-time asymptotic orbital stability. As a preparation, we also prove similar results for constant solutions of initial value and initial boundary value problems, that seem to be new in this generality. Main key technical ingredients include the design of a nonlinear change of variables providing a hypocoercive Kawashima-type structure with dissipative boundary conditions in the high-frequency regime and the explicit identification of most singular parts of the linearized evolution, both being deduced from the mere spectral assumption.

The present contribution proves the asymptotic orbital stability of viscous regularizations of stable Riemann shocks of scalar balance laws, uniformly with respect to the viscosity/diffusion parameter $\epsilon$. The uniformity is understood in the sense that all constants involved in the stability statements are uniform and that the corresponding multiscale $\epsilon$-dependent topology reduces to the classical $W^{1,\infty}$-topology when restricted to functions supported away from the shock location. Main difficulties include that uniformity precludes any use of parabolic regularization to close regularity estimates, that the global-in-time analysis is also spatially multiscale due to the coexistence of nontrivial slow parts with fast shock-layer parts, that the limiting smooth spectral problem (in fast variables) has no spectral gap and that uniformity requires a very precise and unusual design of the phase shift encoding orbital stability. In particular, our analysis builds a phase that somehow interpolates between the hyperbolic shock location prescribed by the Rankine-Hugoniot conditions and the non-uniform shift arising merely from phasing out the non-decaying $0$-mode, as in the classical stability analysis for fronts of reaction-diffusion equations.

The present contribution contains a quite extensive theory for the stability analysis of plane periodic waves of general Schr{\"o}dinger equations. On one hand, we put the one-dimensional theory, or in other words the stability theory for longitudinal perturbations, on a par with the one available for systems of Korteweg type, including results on co-periodic spectral instability, nonlinear co-periodic orbital stability, side-band spectral instability and linearized large-time dynamics in relation with modulation theory, and resolutions of all the involved assumptions in both the small-amplitude and large-period regimes. On the other hand, we provide extensions of the spectral part of the latter to the multi-dimensional context. Notably, we provide suitable multi-dimensional modulation formal asymptotics, validate those at the spectral level and use them to prove that waves are always spectrally unstable in both the small-amplitude and the large-period regimes.

The Pencil Code is a highly modular physics-oriented simulation code that can be adapted to a wide range of applications. It is primarily designed to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) of compressible hydrodynamics and has lots of add-ons ranging from astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to meteorological cloud microphysics and engineering applications in combustion. Nevertheless, the framework is general and can also be applied to situations not related to hydrodynamics or even PDEs, for example when just the message passing interface or input/output strategies of the code are to be used. The code can also evolve Lagrangian (inertial and noninertial) particles, their coagulation and condensation, as well as their interaction with the fluid., Comment: 7 pages, submitted to the Journal for Open Source Software (JOSS)

Motivated by the ongoing study of dispersive shock waves in non integrable systems, we propose and analyze a set of wave parameters for periodic waves of a large class of Hamiltonian partial differential systems -- including the generalized Korteweg de Vries equations and the Euler-Korteweg systems -- that are well-behaved in both the small amplitude and small wavelength limits. We use this parametrization to determine fine asymptotic properties of the associated modulation systems, including detailed descriptions of eigenmodes. As a consequence, in the solitary wave limit we prove that modulational instability is decided by the sign of the second derivative -- with respect to speed, fixing the endstate -- of the Boussinesq moment of instability; and, in the harmonic limit, we identify an explicit modulational instability index, of Benjamin--Feir type., Comment: 65 pages

In the present letter, we consider homogeneous and isotropic noncommutative cosmological models induced by a symplectic formalism coupled to phantom perfect fluids and a cosmological constant. After computing the field equations, we solve them to find the scalar factor dynamics. We restrict our attention to expansive solutions, that may represent the present expansion of our Universe. Those solutions generate {\it big rip} singularities. We study how the parameters, of those models, modify the time it takes to the scalar factor expands from zero till infinity, at the {\it big rip}., Comment: Modified version with 23 pages, 7 figures and more references

Fluid approximations to cosmic ray (CR) transport are often preferred to kinetic descriptions in studies of the dynamics of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies, because they allow simpler analytical and numerical treatments. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the ISM usually incorporate CR dynamics as an advection-diffusion equation for CR energy density, with anisotropic, magnetic field-aligned diffusion with the diffusive flux assumed to obey Fick's law. We compare test-particle and fluid simulations of CRs in a random magnetic field. We demonstrate that a non-Fickian prescription of CR diffusion, which corresponds to the telegraph equation for the CR energy density, can be easily calibrated to match the test particle simulations with great accuracy. In particular, we consider a random magnetic field in the fluid simulation that has a lower spatial resolution than that used in the particle simulation to demonstrate that an appropriate choice of the diffusion tensor can account effectively for the unresolved (subgrid) scales of the magnetic field. We show that the characteristic time which appears in the telegraph equation can be physically interpreted as the time required for the particles to reach a diffusive regime and we stress that the Fickian description of the CR fluid is unable to describe complex boundary or initial conditions for the CR energy flux., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

In this work, we will analyze a noncommutative (NC) version of the Friedmann-Robert-Walker cosmological models within the gravitational Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz theory. The matter content of the models is described by a perfect fluid and the constant curvature of the spatial sections may be positive, negative or zero. In order to obtain this theory, we will use the Faddeev-Jackiw symplectic formalism to introduce, naturally, space-time noncommutativity inside the equations that provide the dynamics of the theory. We will investigate, in details, the classical field equations of a particular version of the NC models. The equations will be modified, with respect to the commutative ones, by the introduction of a NC parameter. We will demonstrate that various NC models, with different types of matter and spatial constant curvatures, show several interesting and new results relative to the corresponding commutative ones. We will pay special attention to some cases, where the NC model predicts a scale factor accelerated expansion, which may describe the current state of our Universe., Comment: 27 pages. Preprint format

We carry out a systematic analytical and numerical study of spectral stability of discontinuous roll wave solutions of the inviscid Saint Venant equations, based on a periodic Evans-Lopatinski determinant analogous to the periodic Evans function of Gardner in the (smooth) viscous case, obtaining a complete spectral stability diagram useful in hydraulic engineering and related applications. In particular, we obtain an explicit low-frequency stability boundary, which, moreover, matches closely with its (numerically-determined) counterpart in the viscous case. This is seen to be related to but not implied by the associated formal first-order Whitham modulation equations., Comment: 45 pages, 11 figures

We provide a detailed study of the dynamics obtained by linearizing the Korteweg-de Vries equation about one of its periodic traveling waves, a cnoidal wave. In a suitable sense, linearly analogous to space-modulated stability, we prove global-in-time bounded stability in any Sobolev space, and asymptotic stability of dispersive type. Furthermore, we provide both a leading-order description of the dynamics in terms of slow modulation of local parameters and asymptotic modulation systems and effective initial data for the evolution of those parameters. This requires a global-in-time study of the dynamics generated by a non normal operator with non constant coefficients. On the road we also prove estimates on oscillatory integrals particularly suitable to derive large-time asymptotic systems that could be of some general interest.