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In this paper we review the physical relevance of a Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation with higher-order dispersion terms which is used in the applied sciences and engineering. We also present exact traveling wave solutions to this…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-10-04 Stefan C. Mancas , Willy A. Hereman

The Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV) and various generalized, most often semi- linear versions have been studied for about 50 years. Here, the focus is made on a quasi-linear generalization of the KdV equation, which has a fairly general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Colin Mietka

This manuscript embarks on an in-depth exploration of the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation, with a particular emphasis on unraveling the intricate structure of its infinite symmetries and their physical interpretations. Central to…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-01-07 Xiazhi Hao , S. Y. Lou

Generalized solitary waves with exponentially small non-decaying far field oscillations have been studied in a range of singularly-perturbed differential equations, including higher-order Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equations. Many of these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 Nalini Joshi , Christopher J. Lustri

With the nonuniform media taken into account, the nonisospectral and variable-coefficient Korteweg-de Vries equation, which describes various physical situations such as fluid dynamics and plasma, is under investigation in this paper. With…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-10-17 Ling-Jun Liu , Xin Yu

In a previous work, assuming that the nucleus can be treated as a perfect fluid, we have studied the propagation of perturbations in the baryon density. For a given equation of state we have derived a Korteweg - de Vries (KdV) equation from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. A. Fogaça , F. S. Navarra

All solutions of the Korteweg -- de Vries equation that are bounded on the real line are physically relevant, depending on the application area of interest. Usually, both analytical and numerical approaches consider solution profiles that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Thomas Trogdon , Bernard Deconinck

The KdV equation is a model equation for waves at the surface of an inviscid incompressible fluid, and it is well known that the equation describes the evolution of unidirectional waves of small amplitude and long wavelength fairly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-31 Mats K. Brun , Henrik Kalisch

We study the dynamics of multi-component Bose gas described by the Vector Nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger Equation (VNLS), aka the Vector Gross--Pitaevskii Equation (VGPE) . Through a Madelung transformation, the VNLS can be reduced to coupled…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Swetlana Swarup , Vishal Vasan , Manas Kulkarni

We show how to apply ideas from the theory of rough paths to the analysis of low-regularity solutions to non-linear dispersive equations. Our basic example will be the one dimensional Korteweg--de Vries (KdV) equation on a periodic domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-21 M. Gubinelli

In this paper, nonlocal symmetries and exact solutions of variable coefficient Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation are studied for the first time. Using pseudo-potential, high order nonlocal symmetries of time-dependent coefficient KdV…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-06-20 Xiangpeng Xin , Hanze Liu , Linlin Zhang

The letter is a response to the recent article by J. Lidsey. We demonstrate that the Schwarzian derivative technique developed therein is but a consequence of linearizabiliy of the original cosmological equations. Furthermore, we show the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-30 A. V. Yaparova , A. V. Yurov , V. A. Yurov

We present a noncommutative extension of Quantum Cosmology and study the Kantowski-Sachs (KS) cosmological model requiring that the two scale factors of the KS metric, the coordinates of the system, and their conjugate canonical momenta do…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Catarina Bastos , Orfeu Bertolami , Nuno Costa Dias , João Nuno Prata

The evolution of a solitary wave with very weak nonlinearity which was originally investigated by Miles [4] is revisited. The solution for a one-dimensional gravity wave in a water of uniform depth is considered. This leads to finding the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-04-11 S. G. Sajjadi , T. A. Smith

In this letter, we derive the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation corresponding to the surface dynamics of a shallow depth ($h$) two-dimensional fluid with odd viscosity ($\nu_o$) subject to gravity ($g$) in the long wavelength weakly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-15 Gustavo M. Monteiro , Sriram Ganeshan

We consider solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations (gKdV) which are non dispersive in some sense (in the spirit of [18]) and which remain close to multi-solitons. We show that these solutions are necessarily pure…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Xavier Friederich

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

The Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation governs the propagation of nonlinear internal and surface gravity waves in shallow ocean environments, where the balance between nonlinear steepening and frequency-dependent dispersion produces solitons.…

Some types of coupled Korteweg de-Vries (KdV) equations are derived from an atmospheric dynamical system. In the derivation procedure, an unreasonable $y$-average trick (which is usually adopted in literature) is removed. The derived models…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Y. Lou , Bin Tong , Heng-chun Hu , Xiao-yan Tang

There is a well explored relationship between quantum mechanical scattering from a potential and the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation of fluid dynamics: if the potential is 'evolved' according to the KdV equation then it will have the same…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-03 S. A. R. Horsley