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The relevance of perturbed forms of the Korteweg-de Vries equation to a range of physical problems is discussed. Solutions which are perturbations of solitary travelling wave solutions are then considered, focussing predominantly on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-24 Paul Hammerton , Dane Grundy

In this paper we employ three recent analytical approaches to investigate the possible classes of traveling wave solutions of some members of a family of so-called short-pulse equations (SPE). A recent, novel application of phase-plane…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 G. Gambino , U. Tanriver , P. Guha , A. Ghose Choudhury , S. Roy Choudhury

We consider the stability and instability of periodic travling waves for Korteweg-de Vries type equations with fractional dispersion and other nonlinear dispersive equations. We establish that a constrained minimizer for the related…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

Differential inclusions with compact, upper semi-continuous, not necessarily convex right-hand sides in R^n are studied. Under a weakened monotonicity-type condition the existence of solutions is proved.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Elza Farkhi , Tzanko Donchev , Robert Baier

We address the properties of optical solitons that form in media with competing cubic-quintic nonlinearity and parity-time(PT)-symmetric complex-valued external potentials. The model describes the propagation of solitons in nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-10 Pengfei Li , Lu Li , Dumitru Mihalache

We present compacton-like solution of the modified KdV equation and compare its properties with those of the compactons and solitons. We further show that, the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation with a source term and other higher order…

solv-int · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Nagaraja Kumar , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We study the phenomenon of length scale competition, an instability of solitons and other coherent structures that takes place when their size is of the same order of some characteristic scale of the system in which they propagate. Working…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Sara Cuenda , Angel Sanchez

In this article, we follow an idea that is opposite to the idea of Hopf and Cole: we use transformations in order to transform simpler linear or nonlinear differential equations (with known solutions) to more complicated nonlinear…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-12-07 Nikolay K. Vitanov

Since the parity-time-(PT-) symmetric quantum mechanics was put forward, fundamental properties of some linear and nonlinear models with PT-symmetric potentials have been investigated. However, previous studies of PT-symmetric waves were…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-29 Yong Chen , Zhenya Yan , Dumitru Mihalache , Boris A. Malomed

Uniform estimates for the decay structure of the $n$-soliton solution of the Korteweg-deVries equation are obtained. The KdV equation, linearized at the $n$-soliton solution is investigated in a class $\WW$ consisting of sums of travelling…

solv-int · Physics 2018-08-29 M. Haragus-Courcelle , D. H. Sattinger

We find one-, two-, and three-component solitons of the polar and ferromagnetic (FM) types in the general (non-integrable) model of a spinor (three-component) model of the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), based on a system of three…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Lu Li , Zaidong Li , Boris A. Malomed , Dumitru Mihalache , W. M. Liu

We present a brief overview of integrability of nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations with a focus on the Painleve property: an ODE of second order has the Painleve property if the only movable singularities connected to…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-02-05 Zlatinka I. Dimitrova , Kaloyan N. Vitanov

We study the perturbed Burgers-Korteweg-de Vries equation. This equation can be used for the description of nonlinear waves in a liquid with gas bubbles and for the description of nonlinear waves on a fluid layer flowing down an inclined…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-03 Nikolai A. Kudryashov , Dmitry I. Sinelshchikov

The models of the non-linear optics in which solitons were appeared are considered. These models are of paramount importance in studies of non-linear wave phenomena. The classical examples of phenomena of this kind are the self-focusing,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrei Maimistov

In the Painleve analysis of nonintegrable partial differential equations one obtains differential constraints describing the movable singularity manifold. We show, for a class of n-dimensional wave equations, that these constraints have a…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Norbert Euler , Ove Lindblom

We systematically construct a distinct class of complex potentials including parity-time ($\cal PT$) symmetric potentials for the stationary Schr\"odinger equation by using the soliton and periodic solutions of the four integrable real…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-10-11 K. Tamilselvan , T. Kanna , Avinash Khare

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

We consider the existence and stability of solitons in generalized galileons, scalar field theories with higher-derivative interactions but second-order equations of motion. It has previously been proven that no stable, static solitons…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 Mariana Carrillo-Gonzalez , Ali Masoumi , Adam R. Solomon , Mark Trodden

The purpose of this paper is to propose a revised continuum model from the discrete system introduced in [Deng et.al., PRL, 2017] . Using a Galilean transformation, we obtain an equation governing the soliton solutions in the phase plane -…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-24 M. H. Duong , M. J. Reynolds

We prove the existence of multi-soliton and kink-multi-soliton solutions of the Euler-Korteweg system in dimension one. Such solutions behaves asymptotically in time like several traveling waves far away from each other. A kink is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Corentin Audiard