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A regularized Boussinesq equation is studied as a dispersive, long-wave (quasicontinuum) approximation of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice with a general cubic interaction force. Explicit periodic traveling wave solutions in terms of Jacobi…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-14 Mark A. Hoefer , Anna Vainchtein

This article concerns the water wave problem in a three-dimensional domain of infinite depth and examines the modulational regime for weakly nonlinear wavetrains. We use the method of normal form transformations near the equilibrium state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Philippe Guyenne , Adilbek Kairzhan , Catherine Sulem

We modify the nonlinear shallow water equations, the Korteweg-de Vries equation, and the Whitham equation, to permit constant vorticity, and examine wave breaking, or the lack thereof. By wave breaking, we mean that the solution remains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Vera Mikyoung Hur

The extended KdV equation is a nonlinear dispersive wave model that is asymptotically or variationally derived from the full dispersive Euler shallow water waves equations when gravity-capillary and higher order nonlinear effects are taken…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-15 Saleh Baqer , Hamid Said

We show that periodic traveling waves with sufficiently small amplitudes of the Whitham equation, which incorporates the dispersion relation of surface water waves and the nonlinearity of the shallow water equations,are spectrally unstable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

We consider free surface dynamics of a two-dimensional incompressible fluid with odd viscosity. The odd viscosity is a peculiar part of the viscosity tensor which does not result in dissipation and is allowed when parity symmetry is broken.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Alexander G. Abanov , Tankut Can , Sriram Ganeshan

We prove wave breaking --- bounded solutions with unbounded derivatives --- in the nonlinear nonlocal equations which combine the dispersion relation of water waves and the nonlinear shallow water equations, and which generalize the Whitham…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Lizheng Tao

Whitham modulation theory describes the zero dispersion limit of nonlinear waves by a system of conservation laws for the parameters of modulated periodic traveling waves. Here, admissible, discontinuous, weak solutions of the Whitham…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-24 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer

The Euler's equations describe the motion of inviscid fluid. In the case of shallow water, when a perturbative asymtotic expansion of the Euler's equations is taken (to a certain order of smallness of the scale parameters), relations to…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-09-02 Rossen I. Ivanov

We study here the water-waves problem for uneven bottoms in a highly nonlinear regime where the small amplitude assumption of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is enforced. It is known, that for such regimes, a generalization of the KdV…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-22 Samer Israwi

The classical equations of irrotational water waves have recently been reformulated as a system of two equations, one of which is an explicit non-local equation for the wave height and for the velocity potential evaluated on the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-01 Anthony C. L Ashton , A. S. Fokas

The Whitham modulation equations for the parameters of a periodic solution are derived using the generalized Lagrangian approach for the case of damped Benjamin-Ono equation. The structure of the dispersive shock in internal wave in deep…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-06-07 Y. Matsuno , V. S. Shchesnovich , A. M. Kamchatnov , R. A. Kraenkel

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

A model for internal interfacial waves between two layers of fluid in the presence of current and variable bottom is studied in the flat-surface approximation. Fluids are assumed to be incompressible and inviscid. Another assumption is that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-08 Rossen Ivanov , Lyudmila Ivanova

We examine a two dimensional fluid system consisting of a lower medium bounded underneath by a flatbed and an upper medium with a free surface. The two media are separated by a free common interface. The gravity driven surface and internal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-07 Rossen Ivanov

A new Hamiltonian formulation for the fully nonlinear water-wave problem over variable bathymetry is derived, using an exact, vertical series expansion of the velocity potential, in conjunction with Luke's variational principle. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-14 Christos Papoutsellis , Gerassimos Athanassoulis

Recently, two different proofs for large and intermediate-size solitary waves of the nonlocally dispersive Whitham equation have been presented, using either global bifurcation theory or the limit of waves of large period. We give here a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Mathias Nikolai Arnesen , Mats Ehrnstrom , Atanas G. Stefanov

Original Whitham's method of derivation of modulation equations is applied to systems whose dynamics is described by a perturbed Korteweg-de Vries equation. Two situations are distinguished: (i) the perturbation leads to appearance of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-24 A. M. Kamchatnov

We study the bifurcation of periodic travelling waves of the capillary-gravity Whitham equation. This is a nonlinear pseudo-differential equation that combines the canonical shallow water nonlinearity with the exact (unidirectional)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Mats Ehrnström , Mathew A. Johnson , Ola I. H. Maehlen , Filippo Remonato

The dynamics of surface waves traveling along the boundary of a liquid medium are changed by the presence of floating plates and membranes, contributing to a number of important phenomena in a wide range of applications. Mathematically, if…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Travis Askham , Tristan Goodwill , Jeremy G Hoskins , Peter Nekrasov , Manas Rachh