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We solve the Gardner deformation problem for the N=2 supersymmetric a=4 Korteweg-de Vries equation (P. Mathieu, 1988). We show that a known zero-curvature representation for this superequation yields the system of new nonlocal variables…

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We study travelling wave solutions of a generalised Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation with a non-local diffusion term and a concave-convex flux. This model equation arises in the analysis of a shallow water flow by performing formal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-05 F. Achleitner , C. M. Cuesta , X. Diez-Izagirre

The Serre-Green-Naghdi equations of water wave theory have been widely employed to study undular bores. In this study, we introduce a modified Serre-Green-Naghdi system incorporating the effect of an artificial term that results in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Daria Bolbot , Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

The truncated Korteweg-De Vries (TKdV) system, a shallow-water wave model with Hamiltonian structure that exhibits weakly turbulent dynamics, has been found to accurately predict the anomalous wave statistics observed in recent laboratory…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-10 Hui Sun , Nicholas J. Moore

We present a way to deal with dispersion-dominated ``shock-type'' transition in the absence of completely integrable structure for the systems that one may characterize as strictly hyperbolic regularized by a small amount of dispersion. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 G. A. El

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 this paper we consider a family of generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations and study the linear modulational instability of small amplitude traveling waves solutions. Under explicit non-degeneracy conditions on the dispersion relation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Alberto Maspero , Antonio Milosh Radakovic

We consider travelling internal waves in a two-layer fluid with linear shear currents from the viewpoint of the extended Korteweg-de Vries (eKdV) equation derived from a strongly-nonlinear long-wave model. Using an asymptotic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-01 Nerijus Sidorovas , Dmitri Tseluiko , Wooyoung Choi , Karima Khusnutdinova

We study the relevance of various scalar equations, such as inviscid Burgers', Korteweg-de Vries (KdV), extended KdV, and higher order equations (of Camassa-Holm type), as asymptotic models for the propagation of internal waves in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Vincent Duchene

In this work, modulation of periodic interfacial waves on a conduit of viscous liquid is explored utilizing Whitham theory and Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) theory. Large amplitude periodic wave modulation theory does not require…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 Michelle D. Maiden , Mark. A. Hoefer

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

This paper probes the dispersive shock waves (DSWs) theory in nonlinear optical systems through Whitham modulation theory for the high-order Chen-Lee-Liu (HOCLL) equation. We systematically derived the one-phase periodic solutions and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Hua-Ying Ren , Rui Guo , Jian-Wen Zhang

This paper treats nonlinear wave current interactions in their simplest form, as an overtaking collision. In one spatial dimension, the paper investigates the collision interaction formulated as an initial value problem of a Burgers bore…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-15 Albert. Dombret , Darryl D. Holm , Ruiao Hu , Oliver D. Street , Hanchun Wang

We prove wave breaking --- bounded solutions with unbounded derivatives --- in the nonlinear nonlocal equation which combines the dispersion relation of water waves and a nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, provided that the slope…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Vera Mikyoung Hur

Numerical simulations of the unidirectional random waves are performed within the Korteweg -de Vries equation to investigate the statistical properties of surface gravity waves in shallow water. Nonlinear evolution shows the relaxation of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Anna Kokorina , Efim Pelinovsky

We study a class of 1+1 quadratically nonlinear water wave equations that combines the linear dispersion of the Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation with the nonlinear/nonlocal dispersion of the Camassa-Holm (CH) equation, yet still preserves…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-07 Holger R. Dullin , Georg Gottwald , Darryl D. Holm

We discuss the problem of breaking of a nonlinear wave in the process of its propagation into a medium at rest. It is supposed that the profile of the wave is described at the breaking moment by the function $(-x)^{1/n}$ ($x<0$, positive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-02-20 A. M. Kamchatnov

In this work, we study the evolution of disturbances within the framework of the Cubic Vortical Whitham (CV-Whitham) equation, considering both positive and negative cubic nonlinearities. This equation plays important role for description…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-10-01 Marcelo V. Flamarion , Efim Pelinovsky

Nonlinear waves in dispersive media can be succeptible to modulational instabilities. We examine a category of scalar equations, with general dispersion and monomial nonlinearity, including a large variety of KdV-like equations. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Bhavna Kaushik , Bernard Deconinck

Waves with different symmetries exist in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) whose dynamics is described by a system of coupled Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equations. A first type of waves corresponds to excitations for which the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-22 A. M. Kamchatnov , Y. V. Kartashov , P. -É. Larré , N. Pavloff