Related papers: Peakons
The problem of interest in this article are waves on a layer of finite depth governed by the Euler equations in the presence of gravity, surface tension, and vertical electric fields. Perturbation theory is used to identify canonical…
This gives a survey of our recent studies on soliton solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation with an emphasis on the Mach reflection problem in shallow water.
We establish the decay of the solutions of the damped wave equations in one dimensional space for the Dirichlet, Neumann, and dynamic boundary conditions where the damping coefficient is a function of space and time. The analysis is based…
In this paper we employ two recent analytical approaches to investigate the possible classes of traveling wave solutions of some members of a recently-derived integrable family of generalized Camassa-Holm (GCH) equations. A recent, novel…
All nonlinear dispersive wave equations in the general class $m_t+f(u,u_x)m+(g(u,u_x)m)_x =0$ are known to possess multi-peakon weak solutions. A classification is presented for families of multi-peakon equations in this class that possess…
In this paper, we address the existence of global solutions to the Cauchy problem of the modified Camassa-Holm (mCH) equation, which is known as a model for the unidirectional propagation of shallow water waves. Based on the spectral…
The one-dimensional Euler-Poisson system arises in the study of phenomena of plasma such as plasma solitons, plasma sheaths, and double layers. When the system is rescaled by the Gardner-Morikawa transformation, the rescaled system is known…
We put forward and analyze an explicit finite difference scheme for the Camassa-Holm shallow water equation that can handle general $H^1$ initial data and thus peakon-antipeakon interactions. Assuming a specified condition restricting the…
The one-dimensional piston shock problem is a classical result of shock wave theory. In this work, the analogous dispersive shock wave (DSW) problem for a dispersive fluid described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is analyzed.…
This paper is devoted to periodic travelling waves solving Lie-Poisson equations based on the Virasoro group. We show that the reconstruction of any such solution can be carried out exactly, regardless of the underlying Hamiltonian (which…
In this Letter we propose that for Lax integrable nonlinear partial differential equations the natural concept of weak solutions is implied by the compatibility condition for the respective distributional Lax pairs. We illustrate our…
We study a class of partial differential equations (PDEs) in the family of the so-called Euler-Poincar\'e differential systems, with the aim of developing a foundation for numerical algorithms of their solutions. This requires particular…
Motivated by the viewpoint of integrable systems, we study commuting flows of 2-component quasilinear equations, reducing to investigate the solutions of the wave equation with non-constant speed. In this paper, we apply the reduction…
In this paper, we study the global existence of solutions of the Cauchy problem for a class of weakly dissipative nonlinear dispersive wave equations…
We investigate a family of peakon equations, labelled by two parameters $b$ and $\kappa$, all of which admit one-peakon solutions in a unified form. The well known Camassa-Holm equation and Degasperis-Procesi equation are derived from the…
Irregular compactons and peakons from some nonlinear dispersions can be regularized by another type of nonlinear dispersion, defined by a pseudo-differential operator in physical space for the Galerkin truncation preserving finite Fourier…
The KP-I equation \[ (u_t-2uu_x+\tfrac{1}{2}(\beta-\tfrac{1}{3})u_{xxx})_x -u_{yy}=0 \] arises as a weakly nonlinear model equation for gravity-capillary waves with strong surface tension (Bond number $\beta>1/3$). This equation admits ---…
We derive a new completely integrable dispersive shallow water equation that is biHamiltonian and thus possesses an infinite number of conservation laws in involution. The equation is obtained by using an asymptotic expansion directly in…
In this paper, we propose a three-component Camassa-Holm (3CH) system with cubic nonlinearity and peakons. The 3CH model is proven integrable in the sense of Lax pair, Hamiltonian structure, and conservation laws. We show that this system…
Unidirectional flow is the simplest phenomenon of fluid mechanics. Its mathematical description, the Dirichlet problem for Poisson's equation in two dimensions with constant forcing, arises in many physical contexts, such as the torsion of…