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In this work, we study the generalized shallow water wave equation to obtain novel solitary wave solutions. The application of this non-linear model can be found in tidal waves, weather simulations, tsunami prediction, river and irrigation…
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We consider a coupled Wave-Klein-Gordon system in 3D, which is a simplified model for the global nonlinear stability of the Minkowski space-time for self-gravitating massive fields. In this paper we study the large-time asymptotic behavior…
The Serre-Green-Naghdi system is a coupled, fully nonlinear system of dispersive evolution equations which approximates the full water wave problem. The system is an extension of the well known shallow-water system to the situation where…
A new nonlinear equation governing asymptotic dynamics of ripples is derived by using a short wave perturbative expansion on a generalized version of the Green-Naghdi system. It admits peakon solutions with amplitude, velocity and width in…