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We demonstrate the existence of complex solitary wave and periodic solutions of the Kortweg de-vries (KdV) and modified Kortweg de-Vries (mKdV) equations. The solutions of the KdV (mKdV) equation appear in complex-conjugate pairs and are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Subhrajit Modak , Akhil P. Singh , P. K. Panigrahi

We study soliton solutions of matrix "good" Boussinesq equations, generated via a binary Darboux transformation. Essential features of these solutions are revealed via their "tropical limit", as exploited in previous work about the KP…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-12-10 Aristophanes Dimakis , Folkert Müller-Hoissen , Xiao-Min Chen

We consider the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation, and prove that small localized data yields solutions which have dispersive decay on a quartic time-scale. This result is optimal, in view of the emergence of solitons at quartic time, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Mihaela Ifrim , Herbert Koch , Daniel Tataru

We demonstrate the behavior of the soliton which, while moving in non-dissipative and dispersion-constant medium encounters a finite-width barrier with varying dissipation and/or dispersion; beyond the layer dispersion is constant (but not…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-02-04 Alexey Samokhin

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 prove the convergence in the transonic limit of two-dimensional traveling waves of the E-K system, up to rescaling, toward a ground state of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation. Similarly, in dimension one we prove the convergence in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Marc-Antoine Vassenet

We study the dynamics of solitons as solutions to the perturbed KdV (pKdV) equation $\partial_t u = -\partial_x (\partial_x^2 u + 3u^2-bu)$, where $b(x,t) = b_0(hx,ht)$, $h\ll 1$ is a slowly varying, but not small, potential. We option an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Justin Holmer

We consider a randomly perturbed Korteweg-de Vries equation. The perturbation is a random potential depending both on space and time, with a white noise behavior in time, and a regular, but stationary behavior in space. We investigate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-15 Anne De Bouard , Arnaud Debussche

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

A variable-coefficient forced Korteweg-de Vries equation with spacial inhomogeneity is investigated in this paper. Under constraints, this equation is transformed into its bilinear form, and multi-soliton solutions are derived. Effects of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-18 Xin Yu , Zhi-Yuan Sun , Kai-Wen Zhou , Yu-Jia Shen

In this paper, we study the novel nonlinear wave structures of a (2+1)-dimensional variable-coefficient Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) system by its analytic solutions. Its $N$-soliton solution are obtained via Hirota's bilinear method, and in…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-09-27 Yaqing Liu , Linyu Peng

We present a detailed numerical study of solutions to the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in three spatial dimensions. The equation is a three-dimensional generalization of the Korteweg-de Vries equation, though, not completely integrable. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-05 C. Klein , S. Roudenko , N. Stoilov

The Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is a non-linear wave equation that has played a fundamental role in diverse branches of mathematical and theoretical physics. In the present paper, we consider its significance to cosmology. It is found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 James E. Lidsey

We study existence of helical solitons in the vector modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equations, one of which is integrable, whereas another one is non-integrable. The latter one describes nonlinear waves in various physical systems,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Yury A. Stepanyants

The long-time evolution of the KdV-type solitons propagating in ferromagnetic materials is considered trough a multi-time formalism, it is governed by all equations of the KdV Hierarchy. The scaling coefficients of the higher order time…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Herve Leblond

In nonlinear physics, the interactions among solitons are well studied thanks to the multiple soliton solutions can be obtained by various effective methods. However, it is very difficult to study interactions among different types of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2012-08-17 Xue-Ping Cheng , Chun-Li Chen , Sen-Yue Lou

We announce a detailed investigation of limits of N-soliton solutions of the Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation as $N$ tends to infinity. Our main results provide new classes of KdV-solutions including in particular new types of soliton-like…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Fritz Gesztesy , Witold Karwowski , Zhong Xin Zhao

We consider an extended Korteweg-de Vries (eKdV) equation, the usual Korteweg-de Vries equation with inclusion of an additional cubic nonlinearity. We investigate the statistical behaviour of flat-top solitary waves described by an eKdV…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Yeojin Chung

We propose a numerical method for finding solitary wave solutions of generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations by solving the nonlinear eigenvalue problem on an unbounded domain. The artificial boundary conditions are obtained to make the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Houde Han , Zhenli Xu

We consider families of solitary waves in the Korteweg--de Vries (KdV) equation coupled with the linear Schr\"{o}dinger (LS) equation. This model has been used to describe interactions between long and short waves. To characterize families…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 James Hornick , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky