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The notion of a delta shock wave and a singular shock wave was introduced and employed by different authors, and it was shown that a large class of Riemann problems can be solved globally with these additional building blocks. The aim of…
We explore the form of rogue wave solutions in a select set of case examples of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with variable coefficients. We focus on systems with constant dispersion, and present three different models that describe…
We consider asymmetric (nonreciprocal) wave transmission through a layered nonlinear, non mirror-symmetric system described by the one-dimensional Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with spatially varying coefficients embedded in an…
The authors investigate the solution of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation connected with nonlinear waves. The equation discussed is more general than the one discussed recently by Manne, Hurd, and Kenkre (2000). The results are…
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