Three‐dimensional internal gravity‐capillary waves in finite depth

We consider three‐dimensional inviscid‐irrotational flow in a two‐layer fluid under the effects of gravity and surface tension, where the upper fluid is bounded above by a rigid lid and the lower fluid is bounded below by a flat bottom. We use a spatial dynamics approach and formulate the steady Euler equations as an infinite‐dimensional Hamiltonian system, where an unbounded spatial direction x is considered as a time‐like coordinate. In addition, we consider wave motions that are periodic in another direction z. By analyzing the dispersion relation, we detect several bifurcation scenarios, two of which we study further: a type of 00(is)(iκ₀) resonance and a Hamiltonian Hopf bifurcation. The bifurcations are investigated by performing a center‐manifold reduction, which yields a finite‐dimensional Hamiltonian system. For this finite‐dimensional system, we establish the existence of periodic and homoclinic orbits, which correspond to, respectively, doubly periodic travelling waves and oblique travelling waves with a dark or bright solitary wave profile in the x direction. The former are obtained using a variational Lyapunov‐Schmidt reduction and the latter by first applying a normal form transformation and then studying the resulting canonical system of equations.     

Quasi‐Periodic Almost‐Collision Orbits in the Spatial Three‐Body Problem

In a system of particles, quasi‐periodic almost‐collision orbits are collisionless orbits along which two bodies become arbitrarily close to each other—the lower limit of their distance is zero but the upper limit is strictly positive—and are quasi‐periodic in a regularized system up to a change of time. Their existence was shown in the restricted planar circular three‐body problem by A.~Chenciner and J. Llibre, and in the planar three‐body problem by J. Féjoz. In the spatial three‐body problem, the existence of a set of positive measure of such orbits was predicted by C. Marchal. In this article, we present a proof of this fact.© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

A Numerical Method for Computing Time‐Periodic Solutions in Dissipative Wave Systems

A numerical method is proposed for computing time‐periodic and relative time‐periodic solutions in dissipative wave systems. In such solutions, the temporal period, and possibly other additional internal parameters such as the propagation constant, are unknown priori and need to be determined along with the solution itself. The main idea of the method is to first express those unknown parameters in terms of the solution through quasi‐Rayleigh quotients, so that the resulting integrodifferential equation is for the time‐periodic solution only. Then this equation is computed in the combined spatiotemporal domain as a boundary value problem by Newton‐conjugate‐gradient iterations. The proposed method applies to both stable and unstable time‐periodic solutions; its numerical accuracy is spectral; it is fast‐converging; its memory use is minimal; and its coding is short and simple. As numerical examples, this method is applied to the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation and the cubic‐quintic Ginzburg–Landau equation, whose time‐periodic or relative time‐periodic solutions with spatially periodic or spatially localized profiles are computed. This method also applies to systems of ordinary differential equations, as is illustrated by its simple computation of periodic orbits in the Lorenz equations. MATLAB codes for all numerical examples are provided in the Appendices to illustrate the simple implementation of the proposed method.     

Homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits for near-integrable coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations

In this paper, a geometrical perturbation method is employed to prove the existence of heteroclinic orbits for the kinetic system of near-integrable coupled nonlinear Schrödinger (CNLS) equations. Furthermore, we obtain the persistence of homoclinic orbits for the perturbed CNLS equations with even and periodic boundary conditions.     

Rational and Semirational Solutions of the Nonlocal Davey–Stewartson Equations

In this paper, the partially party‐time () symmetric nonlocal Davey–Stewartson (DS) equations with respect to x is called x‐nonlocal DS equations, while a fully symmetric nonlocal DSII equation is called nonlocal DSII equation. Three kinds of solutions, namely, breather, rational, and semirational solutions for these nonlocal DS equations are derived by employing the bilinear method. For the x‐nonlocal DS equations, the usual (2 + 1)‐dimensional breathers are periodic in x direction and localized in y direction. Nonsingular rational solutions are lumps, and semirational solutions are composed of lumps, breathers, and periodic line waves. For the nonlocal DSII equation, line breathers are periodic in both x and y directions with parallels in profile, but localized in time. Nonsingular rational solutions are (2 + 1)‐dimensional line rogue waves, which arise from a constant background and disappear into the same constant background, and this process only lasts for a short period of time. Semirational solutions describe interactions of line rogue waves and periodic line waves.     

Effects of Quadratic Singular Curves in Integrable Equations

In this paper, the effects of quadratic singular curves in integrable wave equations are studied by using the bifurcation theory of dynamical system. Some new singular solitary waves (pseudo‐cuspons) and periodic waves are found more weak than regular singular traveling waves such as peaked soliton (peakon), cusp soliton (cuspon), cusp periodic wave, etc. We show that while the first‐order derivatives of the new singular solitary wave and periodic waves exist, their second‐order derivatives are discontinuous at finite number of points for the solitary waves or at infinitely countable points for the periodic wave. Moreover, an intrinsic connection is constructed between the singular traveling waves and quadratic singular curves in the phase plane of traveling wave system. The new singular periodic waves, pseudo‐cuspons, and compactons emerge if corresponding periodic orbits or homoclinic orbits are tangent to a hyperbola, ellipse, and parabola. In particular, pseudo‐cuspon is proposed for the first time. Finally, we study the qualitative behavior of the new singular solitary wave and periodic wave solutions through theoretical analysis and numerical simulation.     

D'Alembert‐type solution of the Cauchy problem for the Boussinesq‐Klein‐Gordon equation

In this paper, we construct a weakly‐nonlinear d'Alembert‐type solution of the Cauchy problem for the Boussinesq‐Klein‐Gordon (BKG) equation. Similarly to our earlier work based on the use of spatial Fourier series, we consider the problem in the class of periodic functions on an interval of finite length (including the case of localized solutions on a large interval), and work with the nonlinear partial differential equation with variable coefficients describing the deviation from the oscillating mean value. Unlike our earlier paper, here we develop a novel multiple‐scales procedure involving fast characteristic variables and two slow time scales and averaging with respect to the spatial variable at a constant value of one or another characteristic variable, which allows us to construct an explicit and compact d'Alembert‐type solution of the nonlinear problem in terms of solutions of two Ostrovsky equations emerging at the leading order and describing the right‐ and left‐propagating waves. Validity of the constructed solution in the case when only the first initial condition for the BKG equation may have nonzero mean value follows from our earlier results, and is illustrated numerically for a number of instructive examples, both for periodic solutions on a finite interval, and localized solutions on a large interval. We also outline an extension of the procedure to the general case, when both initial conditions may have nonzero mean values. Importantly, in all cases, the initial conditions for the leading‐order Ostrovsky equations by construction have zero mean, while initial conditions for the BKG equation may have nonzero mean values.     

Heteroclinic orbits between rotating waves of semilinear parabolic equations on the circle

We investigate heteroclinic orbits between equilibria and rotating waves for scalar semilinear parabolic reaction-advection-diffusion equations with periodic boundary conditions. Using zero number properties of the solutions and the phase shift equivariance of the equation, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a heteroclinic connection between any pair of hyperbolic equilibria or rotating waves.     

Noncompact‐type Krasnoselskii fixed‐point theorems and their applications

In this paper, we first establish some user‐friendly versions of fixed‐point theorems for the sum of two operators in the setting that the involved operators are not necessarily compact and continuous. These fixed‐point results generalize, encompass, and complement a number of previously known generalizations of the Krasnoselskii fixed‐point theorem. Next, with these obtained fixed‐point results, we study the existence of solutions for a class of transport equations, the existence of global solutions for a class of Darboux problems on the first quadrant, the existence and/or uniqueness of periodic solutions for a class of difference equations, and the existence and/or uniqueness of solutions for some kind of perturbed Volterra‐type integral equations. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Zero‐Hopf bifurcation in the FitzHugh–Nagumo system

We characterize the values of the parameters for which a zero‐Hopf equilibrium point takes place at the singular points, namely, O (the origin), P₊, and P_? in the FitzHugh–Nagumo system. We find two two‐parameter families of the FitzHugh–Nagumo system for which the equilibrium point at the origin is a zero‐Hopf equilibrium. For these two families, we prove the existence of a periodic orbit bifurcating from the zero‐Hopf equilibrium point O. We prove that there exist three two‐parameter families of the FitzHugh–Nagumo system for which the equilibrium point at P₊ and at P_? is a zero‐Hopf equilibrium point. For one of these families, we prove the existence of one, two, or three periodic orbits starting at P₊ and P_?. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Instability of cnoidal‐peak for the NLS‐δ equation

We study the existence and stability of standing waves for the periodic cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a point defect determined by the periodic Dirac distribution at the origin. We show that this model admits a smooth curve of periodic‐peak standing wave solutions with a profile determined by the Jacobi elliptic function of cnoidal type. Via a perturbation method and continuation argument, we obtain that in the repulsive defect, the cnoidal‐peak standing wave solutions are unstable in $H^1_{per}$ with respect to perturbations which have the same period as the wave itself. Global well‐posedness is verified for the Cauchy problem in $H^1_{per}$ .     

Transverse Spectral Stability of Small Periodic Traveling Waves for the KP Equation

The Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (KP) equation possesses a four‐parameter family of one‐dimensional periodic traveling waves. We study the spectral stability of the waves with small amplitude with respect to two‐dimensional perturbations which are either periodic in the direction of propagation, with the same period as the one‐dimensional traveling wave, or nonperiodic (localized or bounded). We focus on the so‐called KP‐I equation (positive dispersion case), for which we show that these periodic waves are unstable with respect to both types of perturbations. Finally, we briefly discuss the KP‐II equation, for which we show that these periodic waves are spectrally stable with respect to perturbations that are periodic in the direction of propagation, and have long wavelengths in the transverse direction.     

On homoclinic bifurcation emanating from Takens-Bogdanov points in Hamiltonian systems

The paper is devoted to studying the bifurcation of periodic and homoclinic orbits in a 2n-dimensional Hamiltonian system with 1 parameter from a TB-point (Hamiltonian saddle node). In addition to the proof of existence, the paper gives an expansion formula of the bifurcating homoclinic orbits. With the help of center manifold reduction and a blow up transformation, the problem is focused on studying a planar Hamiltonian system, the proof for the perturbed homoclinic and periodic orbits is elementary in the sense that it uses only implicit function arguments. Two applications to travelling waves in PDEs are shown.     

Infinitely many homoclinic orbits for a class of second‐order damped differential equations

We investigate the existence and multiplicity of homoclinic orbits for the second‐order damped differential equations For Equation 1 where L(t) and W(t,u) are neither autonomous nor periodic in t. Under certain assumptions on g, L, and W, we get infinitely many homoclinic orbits for superquadratic, subquadratic and concave–convex nonlinearities cases by using fountain theorem and dual fountain theorem in critical point theory. These results generalize and improve some existing results in the literature. Copyright © 2015 JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Existence of bound and ground states for a class of Kirchhoff‐Schrödinger equations involving critical Trudinger‐Moser growth

In this paper, we discuss the existence of bound and ground state solutions for a class of fractional Kirchhoff equations defined on the whole real line. The equation involves a nonlinear term with critical exponential growth in the Trudinger‐Moser sense. We deal with periodic and asymptotically periodic potential, which may change sign. We handle with the lack of compactness because of the unboundedness of the domain and the critical behavior of the nonlinearity. The main theorems are stated without the well‐known Ambrosetti‐Rabinowitz condition at infinity.     

Time‐periodic solution to the compressible nematic liquid crystal flows in periodic domain

In this paper, we consider the time‐periodic solution to a simplified version of Ericksen‐Leslie equations modeling the compressible hydrodynamic flow of nematic liquid crystals with a time‐periodic external force in a periodic domain in . By using an approach of parabolic regularization and combining with the topology degree theory, we establish the existence of the time‐periodic solution to the model under some smallness and symmetry assumptions on the external force. Then, we give the uniqueness of the periodic solution of this model.     

Transverse spectral instabilities in Konopelchenko–Dubrovsky equation

We study the transverse spectral stability of the one-dimensional small-amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions of the (2+1)-dimensional Konopelchenko–Dubrovsky (KD) equation. We show that these waves are transversely unstable with respect to two-dimensional perturbations that are periodic in both directions with long wavelength in the transverse direction. We also show that these waves are transversely stable with respect to perturbations which are either mean-zero periodic or square-integrable in the direction of the propagation of the wave and periodic in the transverse direction with finite or short wavelength. We discuss the implications of these results for special cases of the KD equation—namely, KP-II and mKP-II equations.     

Existence of one non‐trivial anti‐periodic solution for second‐order impulsive differential inclusions

The existence of one non‐trivial solution for a second‐order impulsive differential inclusion is established. More precisely, a recent critical point result is exploited, in order to prove the existence of a determined open interval of positive eigenvalues for which the considered problem admits at least one non‐trivial anti‐periodic solution. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Localized boundary‐domain singular integral equations of Dirichlet problem for self‐adjoint second‐order strongly elliptic PDE systems

The paper deals with the three‐dimensional Dirichlet boundary value problem (BVP) for a second‐order strongly elliptic self‐adjoint system of partial differential equations in the divergence form with variable coefficients and develops the integral potential method based on a localized parametrix. Using Green's representation formula and properties of the localized layer and volume potentials, we reduce the Dirichlet BVP to a system of localized boundary‐domain integral equations. The equivalence between the Dirichlet BVP and the corresponding localized boundary‐domain integral equation system is studied. We establish that the obtained localized boundary‐domain integral operator belongs to the Boutet de Monvel algebra. With the help of the Wiener–Hopf factorization method, we investigate corresponding Fredholm properties and prove invertibility of the localized operator in appropriate Sobolev (Bessel potential) spaces. Copyright © 2016 The Authors Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Stability of two‐dimensional magnetohydrodynamic motions in the periodic case

We investigate the stability of two‐dimensional periodic solutions to magnetohydrodynamics equations in the class of three‐dimensional periodic solutions. We show the existence of global, strong three‐dimensional solutions to magnetohydrodynamics equations, which are close to two‐dimensional solutions. The advantage of our approach is that neither these solutions nor the external forces have to vanish at infinity. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.