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We prove nonlinear modulational instability for both periodic and localized perturbations of periodic traveling waves for several dispersive PDEs, including the KDV type equations (e.g. the Whitham equation, the generalized KDV equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Jiayin Jin , Shasha Liao , Zhiwu Lin

We consider large-scale dynamics of non-equilibrium dense soliton gas for the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in the special "condensate" limit. We prove that in this limit the integro-differential kinetic equation for the spectral density…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-05-21 T. Congy , G. A. El , G. Roberti , A. Tovbis

The Cauchy problem for the Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation with small dispersion of order $\epsilon^2$, is characterized by the appearance of a zone of rapid modulated oscillations of wave-length of order $\epsilon$. These oscillations are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Tamara Grava , Christian Klein

The extended KdV equation is a nonlinear dispersive wave model that is asymptotically or variationally derived from the full dispersive Euler shallow water waves equations when gravity-capillary and higher order nonlinear effects are taken…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-15 Saleh Baqer , Hamid Said

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs), which connect states of different amplitude via a modulated wave train, form generically in nonlinear dispersive media subjected to abrupt changes in state. The primary tool for the analytical study of DSWs is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-06-23 Christopher Chong , Michael Herrmann , P. G. Kevrekidis

Original Whitham's method of derivation of modulation equations is applied to systems whose dynamics is described by a perturbed Korteweg-de Vries equation. Two situations are distinguished: (i) the perturbation leads to appearance of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-24 A. M. Kamchatnov

The nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation and the Whitham modulation equations both describe slowly varying, locally periodic nonlinear wavetrains, albeit in differing amplitude-frequency domains. In this paper, we take advantage of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-05-01 T. Congy , G. A. El , M. A. Hoefer , M. Shearer

Dissipationless hydrodynamics regularized by dispersion describe a number of physical media including water waves, nonlinear optics, and Bose-Einstein condensates. As in the classical theory of hyperbolic equations where a non-convex flux…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer

The formation of dispersive shock waves in the one-dimensional Bose gas represents a limitation of Generalized Hydrodynamics (GHD) due to the coarse-grained nature of the theory. Nevertheless, GHD accurately captures the long wavelength…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-11 Frederik Møller , Philipp Schüttelkopf , Jörg Schmiedmayer , Sebastian Erne

The Whitham equation was proposed as a model for surface water waves that combines the quadratic flux nonlinearity $f(u) = \tfrac{1}{2}u^2$ of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and the full linear dispersion relation $\Omega(k) = \sqrt{k\tanh…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-01 Adam L. Binswanger , Mark A. Hoefer , Boaz Ilan , Patrick Sprenger

In this work, we develop, in the Gurevich-Pitaevskii framework, an analytic theory for the evolution of localized pulses in the defocusing modified Korteweg-de Vries equation theory for situations when a dispersive shock does not eventually…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-12 L. F. Calazans de Brito , A. Gammal , A. M. Kamchatnov

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) in the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation and two dimensional Benjamin-Ono (2DBO) equation are considered using parabolic front initial data. Employing a front tracking type ansatz exactly reduces the study…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-05-04 Mark J. Ablowitz , Ali Demirci , Yi-Ping Ma

The behavior of solutions of the finite-genus Whitham equations for the weak dispersion limit of the defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation is investigated analytically and numerically for piecewise-constant initial data. In particular,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 Gino Biondini , Yuji Kodama

We are concerned with numerical approximations of breather solutions for the cubic Whitham equation which arises as a water-wave model for interfacial waves. The model combines strong nonlinearity with the non-local character of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-02-15 Henrik Kalisch , Miguel A. Alejo , Adán J. Corcho , Didier Pilod

In this paper the stability of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is investigated. It is shown analytically and numerically that small perturbations of solutions of the KdV-equation introduce effects of dispersion, hence the perturbation…

solv-int · Physics 2008-02-03 H. J. S. Dorren , R. K. Snieder

The Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is of fundamental importance in a wide range of subjects with generalization to multi-component systems relevant for multi-species fluids and cold atomic mixtures. We present a general framework in which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Sharath Jose , Manas Kulkarni , Vishal Vasan

The interaction of localised solitary waves with large-scale, time-varying dispersive mean flows subject to nonconvex flux is studied in the framework of the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation, a canonical model for nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-01 Kiera van der Sande , Gennady A. El , Mark A. Hoefer

It is a matter of experience that nonlinear waves in dispersive media, propagating primarily in one direction, may appear periodic in small space and time scales, but their characteristics --- amplitude, phase, wave number, etc. --- slowly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Jared C. Bronski , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

In the present work we study the nucleation of Dispersive shock waves (DSW) in the {defocusing}, discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (DNLS), a model of wide relevance to nonlinear optics and atomic condensates. Here, we study the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-11 Shrohan Mohapatra , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Su Yang , Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli

We consider solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations (gKdV) which are non dispersive in some sense (in the spirit of [18]) and which remain close to multi-solitons. We show that these solutions are necessarily pure…

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