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Solitons on the rarefactive wave background via the Darboux transformation

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2022-07-05 v1 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

Rarefactive waves and dispersive shock waves are generated from the step-like initial data in many nonlinear evolution equations including the classical example of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. When a solitary wave is injected on the step-like initial data, it is either transmitted over the background or trapped in the rarefactive wave. We show that the transmitted soliton can be obtained by using the Darboux transformation for the KdV equation. On the other hand, no trapped soliton can be obtained by using the Darboux transformation and we show with numerical simulations that the trapped soliton disappears in the long-time dynamics of the rarefactive wave.

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@article{arxiv.2207.01040,
  title  = {Solitons on the rarefactive wave background via the Darboux transformation},
  author = {Ana Mucalica and Dmitry E. Pelinovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.01040},
  year   = {2022}
}

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18 pages; 5 figures