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Stability of the NLS equation with viscosity effect

Fluid Dynamics 2018-04-20 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

A nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation with an effect of viscosity is derived from a Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation modified with viscosity using the method of multiple time-scales. It is well known that the plane-wave solution of the NLS equation exhibits modulational instability phenomenon. In this paper, the modulational instability of the plane-wave solution of the NLS equation modified with viscosity is investigated. The corresponding modulational dispersion relation is expressed as a quadratic equation with complex-valued coefficients. By restricting the modulational wavenumber into the case of narrow-banded spectra, it is observed that a type of dissipation, in this case, the effect of viscosity, stabilizes the modulational instability, as confirmed by earlier findings.

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@article{arxiv.1804.06949,
  title  = {Stability of the NLS equation with viscosity effect},
  author = {N. Karjanto and K. M. Tiong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06949},
  year   = {2018}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures

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