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We consider large-scale dynamics of non-equilibrium dense soliton gas for the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in the special "condensate" limit. We prove that in this limit the integro-differential kinetic equation for the spectral density…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-05-21 T. Congy , G. A. El , G. Roberti , A. Tovbis

A single incompressible, inviscid, irrotational fluid medium bounded above by a free surface is considered. The Hamiltonian of the system is expressed in terms of the so-called Dirichlet-Neumann operators. The equations for the surface…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-09-06 Rossen I. Ivanov

Two page encyclopedic article about the Korteweg-de Vries equation covering historical perspective, solitary wave and periodic solutions, modern developments, properties and applications, and further reading.

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-08-27 Willy Hereman

Nonlinear effects in the propagation of perturbations in a dusty electron-ion plasma is studied, considering fully relativistic wave motion. A multifluid model is considered for the particles, from which a KdV equation can be derived. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Maricarmen A. Winkler , Víctor Muñoz , Felipe A. Asenjo

The Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation with step boundary conditions is considered, with an emphasis on soliton dynamics. When one or more initial solitons are of sufficient size they can propagate through the step; in this case the phase…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-08-15 Mark J. Ablowitz , Xu-Dan Luo , Justin T. Cole

We consider propagation of solitons along large scale background waves in the generalized Korteweg-de Vries (gKdV) equation theory when the width of the soliton is mach smaller than the characteristic size of the background wave. Due to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-01-05 A. M. Kamchatnov , D. V. Shaykin

The Korteweg-De Vries (KdV) equation is a paradigmatic model of integrable classical fields, admitting solitoning solutions. When many solitons are near to each other, their shapes are modified, and it is not manifest, from the KdV field,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Benjamin Doyon

We study the stability and dynamics of solitons in the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in the presence of noise and deterministic forcing. The noise is space-dependent and statistically translation-invariant. We show that, for small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Rik W. S. Westdorp , Hermen Jan Hupkes

We consider a wide class of model equations, able to describe wave propagation in dispersive nonlinear media. The Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is derived in this general frame under some conditions, the physical meanings of which are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Leblond

A novel geometric method is applied to the problem of describing traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg--de Vries (gKdV) equation in the form $$ u_t + u_{xxx} + a(u)u_x = 0, $$ where $a(u)$ is a smooth function characterizing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Antonio J. Pan-Collantes

We consider the logarithmic Korteweg-de Vries (log-KdV) equation, which models solitary waves in anharmonic chains with Hertzian interaction forces. By using an approximating sequence of global solutions of the regularized generalized KdV…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Remi Carles , Dmitry Pelinovsky

Dark equations are defined as some kinds of integrable couplings with some fields being homogeneously and linearly coupled to others. In this paper, dark equations are extended in several aspects. Taking the Korteweg-de Vrise (KdV) equation…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-06-04 S. Y. Lou

One presents a phase-space noncommutative extension of Quantum Cosmology in the context of a Kantowski-Sachs (KS) minisuperspace model. We obtain the Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) equation for the noncommutative system through the ADM formalism and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-24 C. Bastos , O. Bertolami , N. Dias , J. Prata

We study the variable bottom generalized Korteweg-de Vries (bKdV) equation dt u=-dx(dx^2 u+f(u)-b(t,x)u), where f is a nonlinearity and b is a small, bounded and slowly varying function related to the varying depth of a channel of water.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Dejak , I. M. Sigal

We present a phase-space noncommutative version of quantum mechanics and apply this extension to Quantum Cosmology. We motivate this type of noncommutative algebra through the gravitational quantum well (GQW) where the noncommutativity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Catarina Bastos , Orfeu Bertolami , Nuno Dias , Joao Nuno Prata

The Korteweg-de Vries equation has a central place in a model for waves on shallow water and it is an example of the propagation of weakly dispersive and weakly nonlinear waves. Its history spans a period of about sixty years, starting with…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2011-12-09 E. M. de Jager

This paper provides an alternative methodology for analysis of three-wave interactions under the exact dispersion relation associated with gravity waves in fluid of intermediate depth. A Korteweg-de Vries type of equation with exact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-06 N. Karjanto

The equation which governs the temporal evolution of a gravitational wave (GW) in curved space-time can be treated as the Schrodinger equation for a particle moving in the presence of an effective potential. When GWs propagate in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Kostas Kleidis , Demetros B Papadopoulos , Enric Verdaguer , Loukas Vlahos

The Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation with small dispersion is a model for the formation and propagation of dispersive shock waves in one dimension. Dispersive shock waves in KdV are characterized by the appearance of zones of rapid…

solv-int · Physics 2008-02-03 T. Grava

We discuss the implications of a wave function for quantum gravity, which involves nothing but 3-dimensional geometries as arguments and is invariant under general coordinate transformations. We derive an analytic wave function from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-17 Masakatsu Kenmoku , Hiroto Kubotani , Eiichi Takasugi , Yuki Yamazaki