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Exact analytical solution of viscous Korteweg-deVries equation for water waves

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2017-04-11 v2 Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

The evolution of a solitary wave with very weak nonlinearity which was originally investigated by Miles [4] is revisited. The solution for a one-dimensional gravity wave in a water of uniform depth is considered. This leads to finding the solution to a Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in which the nonlinear term is small. Also considered is the asymptotic solution of the linearized KdV equation both analytically and numerically. As in Miles [4], the asymptotic solution of the KdV equation for both linear and weakly nonlinear case is found using the method of inversescattering theory. Additionally investigated is the analytical solution of viscous-KdV equation which reveals the formation of the Peregrine soliton that decays to the initial sech^2(\xi) soliton and eventually growing back to a narrower and higher amplitude bifurcated Peregrine-type soliton.

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@article{arxiv.1704.00723,
  title  = {Exact analytical solution of viscous Korteweg-deVries equation for water waves},
  author = {S. G. Sajjadi and T. A. Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.00723},
  year   = {2017}
}

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