Related papers: KP solitons in shallow water
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.
Reflection of an obliquely incident solitary wave onto a vertical wall is studied analytically and experimentally. We use the Kadomtsev-Petviashivili (KP) equation to analyze the evolution and its asymptotic state. Laboratory experiments…
The Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation describes weakly dispersive and small amplitude waves propagating in a quasi-two dimensional situation. Recently a large variety of exact soliton solutions of the KP equation has been found and…
The main purpose of this paper is to give a survey of recent development on a classification of soliton solutions of the KP equation. The paper is self-contained, and we give a complete proof for the theorems needed for the classification.…
We consider the initial value problems of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation for symmetric V-shape initial waves consisting of two semi-infinite line solitons with the same amplitude. Numerical simulations show that the solutions of…
We often observe that waves on the surface of shallow water form complex web-like patterns. They are examples of nonlinear waves, and these patterns are generated by nonlinear interactions among several obliquely propagating waves. In this…
This article is a brief review of the results of studying the collapse of sound waves in media with positive dispersion, which is described in terms of the three-dimensional Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation. The KP instability of…
The KP-II equation was derived by Kadmotsev and Petviashvili to explain stability of line solitary waves of shallow water. Recently, Mizumachi (Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 238 (2015)) has proved nonlinear stability of $1$-line solitons for…
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 ---…
Resonant Y-shaped soliton solutions to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili II (KPII) equation are modelled as shock solutions to an infinite family of modulation conservation laws. The fully two-dimensional soliton modulation equations, valid in the…
We propose compact finite difference schemes to solve the KP equations $u\_t + u\_{xxx} + u^p u\_x + $\lambda$ \partial^{--1}\_x u\_{yy} = 0$. When $p = 1$, this equation describes the propagation of small amplitude long waves in shallow…
The KP-I equation arises as a weakly nonlinear model equation for gravity-capillary waves with Bond number $\beta>1/3$, also called strong surface tension. This equation has recently been shown to have a family of nondegenerate, symmetric…
In this work, we study solitary waves in a (2+1)-dimensional variant of the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation, the so-called Camassa-Holm NLS (CH-NLS) equation. We use asymptotic multiscale expansion methods to reduce this…
A detailed numerical study of the long time behaviour of dispersive shock waves in solutions to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) I equation is presented. It is shown that modulated lump solutions emerge from the dispersive shock waves. For…
In this paper, we consider a kind of shallow water wave model called the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (KP-BBM) equation. We firstly consider the unperturbed KP-BBM equation. Then by using the geometric singular perturbation…
Soliton solutions of the KP equation have been studied since 1970, when Kadomtsev and Petviashvili proposed a two-dimensional dispersive wave equation now known as the KP equation. It is well-known that one can use the Wronskian method to…
Soliton solutions of the KP equation have been studied since 1970, when Kadomtsev and Petviashvili proposed a two-dimensional nonlinear dispersive wave equation now known as the KP equation. It is well-known that the Wronskian approach to…
We consider the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili II (KP) model placed in $\mathbb R_t \times \mathbb R_{x,y}^2$, in the case of smooth data that are not necessarily in a Sobolev space. In this paper, the subclass of smooth solutions we study is of…
Full dispersive models of water waves, such as the Whitham equation and the full dispersion Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation, are interesting from both the physical and mathematical points of view. This paper studies analogous full…
In this paper, we delve into the study of the generalized KP equation, which incorporates double-power nonlinearities. Our investigation covers various aspects, including the existence of solitary waves, their nonlinear stability, and…