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This article is meant as an accessible introduction to/tutorial on the analytical construction and numerical simulation of a class of non-standard solitary waves termed \emph{peakompactons}. These peaked compactly supported waves arise as…
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…
We consider the extended Korteweg-de Vries (eKdV) equation as a model for long moderately nonlinear surface water waves. In the slow time formulation this equation generates fast propagating resonant radiation due to the non-convexity of…
The Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is known as a universal equation describing various long waves in dispersive systems. In this article, we prove that in a certain scaling regime, a large class of rough solutions to the Boussinesq…
Compactons are studied in the framework of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation with the sublinear nonlinearity. Compactons represent localized bell-shaped waves of either polarity which propagate to the same direction as waves of the…
We study a class of generalized fifth order Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equations which are derivable from a Lagrangian L(p,m,n,l) which has variable powers of the first and second derivatives of the field with powers given by the parameters…
A potential representation for the subset of traveling solutions of nonlinear dispersive evolution equations is introduced. The procedure involves a reduction of a third order partial differential equation to a first order ordinary…
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…
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…
We show that the complex modified KdV (cmKdV) equation and generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger (GNLS) equation belong to the Ablowitz, Kaup, Newell and Segur or so-called AKNS hierarchy. Both equations do not follow from the action…
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…
We study the class of generalized Korteweg-DeVries equations derivable from the Lagrangian: $ L(l,p) = \int \left( \frac{1}{2} \vp_{x} \vp_{t} - { {(\vp_{x})^{l}} \over {l(l-1)}} + \alpha(\vp_{x})^{p} (\vp_{xx})^{2} \right) dx, $ where the…
Irregular compactons and peakons from some nonlinear dispersions can be regularized by another type of nonlinear dispersion, defined by a pseudo-differential operator in physical space for the Galerkin truncation preserving finite Fourier…
The Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation with periodic boundary conditions is considered. It is shown that for $H^s$ initial data, $s>-1/2$, and for any $s_1<\min(3s+1,s+1)$, the difference of the nonlinear and linear evolutions is in $H^{s_1}$…
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…
We consider a quasilinear KdV equation that admits compactly supported traveling wave solutions (compactons). This model is one of the most straightforward instances of degenerate dispersion, a phenomenon that appears in a variety of…
In this work, we investigate non-classical wavetrain formations, and particularly dispersive shock waves (DSWs), or undular bores, in systems exhibiting non-convex dispersion. Our prototypical model, which arises in shallow water wave…
We have derived the extended Korteweg-de Vries equation describing the long gravity waves without limitation to surface deviation. The only restriction to the surface deviation is connected with the stability condition for appropriate…
In this paper, we discuss pointwise decay estimate for the solution to the mass-critical generalized Korteweg-de Vries (gKdV) equation with initial data $u_0\in H^{1/2}(\mathbb{R})$. It is showed that nonlinear solution enjoys the same…
We studied the constrained Hamiltonian formulation of a supersymmetric Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation, which is observed to be a constrained system similar to its classical version. We found a nontrivial Lagrangian description, where we…