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We prove the existence on long time scales of the solutions to the Cauchy problem for a version of weakly transverse Boussinesq systems arising in the modeling of surface water waves. This system is much more complicated than the isotropic Boussinesq systems because dispersion is only present in the x-direction, leading to anisotropic eigenvalues in the linearized system. This anisotropic character leads to loss of y-derivatives for the solutions. To overcome this main difficulty our strategy is to symmetrize the system by introducing suitable good unknowns in the sense of [3]., Comment: 45 pages

This paper aims to show that the Cauchy problem of the Burgers equation with a weakly dispersive perturbation involving the Bessel potential (generalization of the Fornberg-Whitham equation) can exhibit wave breaking for initial data with large slope. We also comment on the dispersive properties of the equation.

This article represents a first step toward understanding the long-time dynamics of solutions for the Intermediate Long Wave equation (ILW). While this problem is known to be both completely integrable and globally well-posed in $H^{\frac{3}{2}}$, much less seems to be known concerning its long-time dynamics. Here we prove well-posedness at much lower regularity, namely an $L^2$ global well-posedness result. Then we consider the case of small and localized data and show that the solutions disperse up to cubic timescale., Comment: 42 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1701.08476, fixed typos

We present a detailed numerical study of the stability under periodic perturbations of line solitons of two-dimensional, generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov equations with various power nonlinearities. In the $L^{2}$-subcritical case, in accordance with a theorem due to Yamazaki we find a critical speed, below which the line soliton is stable. For higher velocities, the numerical results indicate an instability against the formation of lumps, solitons localized in both spatial directions. In the $L^2$-critical and supercritical cases but subcritical for the 1D generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation), the line solitons are shown to be numerically stable for small velocities, and strongly unstable for large velocities, with a blow-up observed in finite time., Comment: New figures added

This paper concerns the modified fractional Korteweg-de Vries (modified fKdV) and nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (modified fNLS) equations, with the dispersions |D|^{\alpha}\partial_x and |D|^{\alpha+1}, respectively. We prove the global existence of small solutions for both the Cauchy problems to the modified fKdV and fNLS equations, with a modified scattering which has a logarithmic phase correction. Our results cover the full range -1<\alpha<1, \alpha\neq 0 for both the modified fKdV and fNLS equations.

We prove a long time existence result for the solutions of a two-dimensional Boussinesq system modeling the propagation of long, weakly nonlinear water waves. This system is exceptional in the sense that it is the only linearly well-posed system in the (abcd) family of Boussinesq systems whose eigenvalues of the linearized system have nontrivial zeroes. This new difficulty is solved by the use of "good unknowns " and of normal form techniques., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1909.08298

This paper focuses on the Dysthe equation which is a higher order approximation of the water waves system in the modulation (Schr\"{o}dinger) regime and in the infinite depth case. We first review the derivation of the Dysthe and related equations. Then we study the initial-value problem. We prove a small data global well-posedness and scattering result in the critical space $L^2(\mathbb R^2)$. This result is sharp in view of the fact that the flow map cannot be $C^3$ continuous below $L^2(\mathbb R^2)$. Our analysis relies on linear and bilinear Strichartz estimates in the context of the Fourier restriction norm method. Moreover, since we are at a critical level, we need to work in the framework of the atomic space $U^2_S$ and its dual $V^2_S $ of square bounded variation functions. We also prove that the initial-value problem is locally well-posed in $H^s(\mathbb R^2)$, $s>0$. Our results extend to the finite depth version of the Dysthe equation., Comment: We added several references and clarified the derivation of the models in the introduction. 21 pages

We prove wave breaking (shock formation) for some Whitham-type equations which include the Burgers-Hilbert equation, the fractional Korteweg-de Vries equation, and the classical Whitham equation. The result seems to be new for the Burgers-Hilbert equation. In the other cases we provide simpler proofs than the known ones.

We prove several dispersive estimates for the linear part of the Full Dispersion Kadomtsev-Petviashvili introduced by David Lannes to overcome some shortcomings of the classical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations. The proof of these estimates combines the stationary phase method with sharp asymptotics on asymmetric Bessel functions, which may be of independent interest. As a consequence, we prove that the initial value problem associated to the Full Dispersion Kadomtsev-Petviashvili is locally well-posed in $H^s(\mathbb R^2)$, for $s>\frac74$, in the capillary-gravity setting., Comment: 29 pages, 3 figures

We prove global existence and modified scattering for the solutions of the Cauchy problem to the fractional Korteweg-de Vries equation with cubic nonlinearity for small, smooth and localized initial data.

Motivated by the analysis of the propagation of internal waves in a stratified ocean, we consider in this article the incompressible Euler equations with variable density in a flat strip, and we study the evolution of perturbations of the hydrostatic equilibrium corresponding to a stable vertical strati-fication of the density. We show the local well-posedness of the equations in this configuration and provide a detailed study of their linear approximation. Performing a modal decomposition according to a Sturm-Liouville problem associated to the background stratification, we show that the linear approximation can be described by a series of dispersive perturbations of linear wave equations. When the so called Brunt-Vais{\"a}l{\"a} frequency is not constant, we show that these equations are coupled, hereby exhibiting a phenomenon of dispersive mixing. We then consider more specifically shallow water configurations (when the horizontal scale is much larger than the depth); under the Boussinesq approximation (i.e. neglecting the density variations in the momentum equation), we provide a well-posedness theorem for which we are able to control the existence time in terms of the relevant physical scales. We can then extend the modal decomposition to the nonlinear case and exhibit a non-linear mixing of different nature than the dispersive mixing mentioned above. Finally, we discuss some perspectives such as the sharp stratification limit that is expected to converge towards two-fluids systems.

We show that the limit infimum, as time $\,t\,$ goes to infinity, of any uniformly bounded in time $H^{3/2+}\cap L^1$ solution to the Intermediate Long Wave equation converge to zero locally in an increasing-in-time region of space of order $\,t/\log(t)$. Also, for solutions with a mild $L^1$-norm growth in time is established that its limit infimum converge to zero, as time goes to infinity. This confirms the non existence of breathers and other solutions for the ILW model moving with a speed "slower" than a soliton. We also prove that in the far field linearly dominated region, the $L^2$ norm of the solution also converges to zero as time approaches infinity. In addition, we deduced several scenarios for which the initial value problem associated to the generalized Benjamin-Ono and the generalized Intermediate Long Wave equations cannot possess time periodic solutions (breathers). Finally, as it was previously demonstrated in solutions of the KdV and BO equations, we establish the following propagation of regularity result : if the datum $u_0\in H^{3/2+}(\mathbb R)\cap H^m((x_0,\infty))$, for some $\;x_0\in\mathbb R,\,m\in Z^+,\,m\geq 2$, then the corresponding solution $u(t,\cdot)$ of the Intermediate Long Wave equation belongs to $H^m(\beta,\infty)$, for any $t>0$ and $\beta\in\mathbb R$., Comment: 21 pp

We establish the long time existence of solutions for the "Boussinesq-Full Dispersion" systems modeling the propagation of internal waves in a two-layer system. For the two-dimensional Hamiltonian case we prove the global existence of small solutions of the corresponding systems.

This paper is concerned with the one-dimensional version of a specific member of the (abcd) family of Boussinesq systems having the higher possible dispersion. We will establish two different long time existence results for the solutions of the Cauchy problem. The proofs involve normal form transformations suitably modified away from the zero set of the phases.

This paper is a continuation of our previous study on the long time behavior of solution to the nonlinear Schr"odinger equation with higher order anisotropic dispersion (4NLS). We prove the long range scattering for (4NLS) with the quadratic nonlinearity in two dimensions. More precisely, for a given asymptotic profile $u_{+}$, we construct a solution to (4NLS) which converges to $u_{+}$ as t to infinity, where $u_{+}$ is given by the leading term of the solution to the linearized equation of (4NLS) with a logarithmic phase correction., Comment: 15 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1710.11362

This survey is focused on two asymptotic models for internal waves, the Benjamin-Ono (BO) and Intermediate Long Wave (ILW) equations that are integrable by inverse scattering techniques (IST). After recalling briefly their derivations we will review old and recent results on the Cauchy problem, comparing those obtains by IST and PDE techniques and also results more connected to the physical origin of the equations. We will consider mainly the Cauchy problem on the real line with only a few comments on the perodic case. We will also briefly discuss some relevant problems, in particular the higher order extensions and the two-dimensional (KP like) versions of the BO and ILW equations.

The aim of this paper is to establish the existence of solitary wave solutions for two classes of two-layers systems modeling the propagation of internal waves. More precisely we will consider the Boussinesq-Full dispersion system and the Intermediate Long Wave (ILW) system together with its Benjamin-Ono (BO) limit.

We address various issues concerning the Cauchy problem for the Zakharov-Rubenchik system (known as the Benney-Roskes system in water waves theory), which models the interaction of short and long waves in many physical situations. Motivated by the transverse stability/instability of the one-dimensional solitary wave (line solitary), we study the Cauchy problem in the background of a line solitary wave., Comment: 24 pages

This paper surveys various precise (long-time) asymptotic results for the solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations with potential forces in bounded domains. It turns out that that the asymptotic expansion leads surprisingly to a Poincar\' e-Dulac normal form of the Navier-Stokes equations. We will also discuss some related results and a few open issues.

We consider the asymptotic behavior in time of solutions to the nonlinear Schr"odinger equation with fourth order anisotropic dispersion (4NLS) which describes the propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in a medium with anomalous time-dispersion in the presence of fourth-order time-dispersion. We prove existence of a solution to (4NLS) which scatters to a solution of the linearized equation of (4NLS)., Comment: 22 pages

The aim of this paper is to prove various ill-posedness and well-posedness results on the Cauchy problem associated to a class of fractional Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equations including the KP version of the Benjamin-Ono and Intermediate Long Wave equations., Comment: 42 pages

This paper is a continuation of a previous work by two of the Authors on long time existence for Boussinesq systems modeling the propagation of long, weakly nonlinear water waves. We provide proofs on examples not considered previously in particular we prove a long time well-posedness result for a delicate "strongly dispersive" Boussinesq system.

The aim of this paper is to provide a proof of the (conditional) orbital stability of solitary waves solutions to the fractional Korteweg- de Vries equation (fKdV) and to the fractional Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (fBBM) equation in the $L^2$ subcritical case. We also discuss instability and its possible scenarios.

The possibility of finite-time, dispersive blow up for nonlinear equations of Schroedinger type is revisited. This mathematical phenomena is one of the possible explanations for oceanic and optical rogue waves. In dimension one, the possibility of dispersive blow up for nonlinear Schroedinger equations already appears in [9]. In the present work, the existing results are extended in several ways. In one direction, the theory is broadened to include the Davey-Stewartson and Gross-Pitaevskii equations. In another, dispersive blow up is shown to obtain for nonlinear Schroedinger equations in spatial dimensions larger than one and for more general power-law nonlinearities. As a by-product of our analysis, a sharp global smoothing estimate for the integral term appearing in Duhamel's formula is obtained., Comment: 28 pages; Several typos corrected. Some more explanations added

The aim of this paper is to show how a weakly dispersive perturbation of the inviscid Burgers equation improve (enlarge) the space of resolution of the local Cauchy problem. More generally we will review several problems arising from weak dispersive perturbations of nonlinear hyperbolic equations or systems., Comment: 33 pages, new remarks added and some typos corrected

We consider in this paper the rigorous justification of the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation from the Euler-Poisson system for uniformly magnetized plasmas. We first provide a proof of the local well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the aforementioned system in dimensions two and three. Then we prove that the long-wave small-amplitude limit is described by the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation. This is done first in the case of cold plasma; we then show how to extend this result in presence of the isothermal pressure term with uniform estimates when this latter goes to zero.

We consider the Cauchy problem for dispersion managed nonlinear Schroedinger equations, where the dispersion map is assumed to be periodic and piecewise constant in time. We establish local and global well-posedness results and the possibility of finite time blow-up. In addition, we shall study the scaling limit of fast dispersion management and establish convergence to an effective model with averaged dispersion., Comment: 15 pages; Minor modifications, some extra references and explanations added

This paper surveys various aspects of the hydrodynamic formulation of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation obtained via the Madelung transform in connexion to models of quantum hydrodynamics and to compressible fluids of the Korteweg type., Comment: 32 pages