We present theoretical and numerical evidence to show that self-defocusing nonlinear optical propagation can be used to compute Euler fluid dynamics and possibly Navier-Stokes fluid dynamics. In particular, the formation of twin vortices and the Kármán vortex street behind an obstacle, two well-known viscous fluid phenomena, is numerically demonstrated using the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. ...

The nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) is a canonical evolution equation, which describes the dynamics of weakly nonlinear wave packets in time and space in a wide range of physical media, such as nonlinear optics, cold gases, plasmas and hydrodynamics. Due to its integrability, the NLS provides families of exact solutions describing the dynamics of localised structures which can be observed ...

We consider a vector kinetic BGK equation leading to isentropic gas dynamics in the relaxation limit. We prove the existence of a weak solution satisfying a kinetic entropy inequality for any initial data with nite energy. Key-words: isentropic gas dynamics { kinetic BGK model { kinetic entropy Mathematics Subject Classi cation: 35L65, 76N15, 35B35, 82C40 Work partially supported by European TM...

The State-Dependant Riccati Equation method has been frequently used to design suboptimal controllers applied to nonlinear dynamic systems. Different methods for local stability analysis of SDRE controlled systems of order greater than two such as the attitude dynamics of a general rigid body have been extended in literature; however, it is still difficult to show global stability properties of...

The effective engineering of linear and nonlinear optical properties in photonic media has led to new advances the theory applications spatio-temporal light–matter interactions. In some instances, research been motivated by phenomena a quantum mechanical framework; two notable examples being Anderson localization parity–time symmetry. Herein, we present theoretical numerical results on light pr...

We consider the problem of uniform stabilization of nonlinear hyperbolic equations, epitomized by the following three canonical dynamics: (1) the wave equation in the natural state space L2(Ω) × H(Ω), under nonlinear (and non-local) boundary dissipation in the Dirichlet B.C., as well as nonlinear internal damping; (2) a corresponding Kirchhoff equation in the natural state space [H(Ω) ∩H1 0 (Ω)...

Within the framework of the thermal wave model, an investigation is made of the longitudinal dynamics of high-energy charged-particle beams. The model includes the nonlinear self-consistent interaction between the beam and its surroundings in terms of a coupling impedance, and when resistive as well as reactive parts are included, the evolution equation becomes a generalized nonlinear Schröding...