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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 investigate the analytic continuation of wave equations into the complex position plane. For the particular case of electromagnetic waves we provide a physical meaning for such an analytic continuation in terms of a family of closely…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 S. A. R. Horsley , C. G. King , T. G. Philbin

The Cauchy problem for the Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation with small dispersion of order $\epsilon^2$, is characterized by the appearance of a zone of rapid modulated oscillations of wave-length of order $\epsilon$. These oscillations are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Tamara Grava , Christian Klein

We develop the direct scattering theory for the KdV equation with step-like finite-gap backgrounds under perturbations. More precisely, we consider initial data that asymptotically approach two distinct one-gap periodic travelling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Xiaodong Zhu

Generalization of the modified KdV equation to a multi-component system, that is expressed by $(\partial u_i)/(\partial t) + 6 (\sum_{j,k=0}^{M-1} C_{jk} u_j u_k) (\partial u_i)/(\partial x) + (\partial^3 u_{i})/(\partial x^3) = 0, i=0, 1,…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Tsuchida , M. Wadati

The KdV equation models the propagation of long waves in dispersive media, while the NLS equation models the dynamics of narrow-bandwidth wave packets consisting of short dispersive waves. A system that couples the two equations to model…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-10-12 Bernard Deconinck , Nghiem V. Nguyen , Benjamin L. Segal

The fundamental problem of optical wave propagation is the determination of the field at an observation point, given a disturbance specified over some finite aperture. In both vacuum and inhomogeneous media, the solution of this problem is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peng Li

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

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 inhomogeneous wave equations for the scalar, vector, and Hertz potentials are derived starting from retarded charge, current, and polarization densities and then solved in the reciprocal (or k-) space to obtain general solutions, which…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Valerica Raicu

We report on the experimental observation of solitons propagating along a torus of fluid. We show that such a periodic system leads to significant differences compared to the classical plane geometry. In particular, we highlight the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-09-29 Filip Novkoski , Chi-Tuong Pham , Eric Falcon

In this study, we present a comprehensive global spectral analysis of the convection dispersion equation, which is also referred to in specific contexts as the Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation, to investigate the behaviour of high order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Lavanya V Salian , Vivek S Yadav , Rathan Samala , Rakesh Kumar

In this work, we extend the Riemann-Hilbert (RH) method in order to study the coupled modified Korteweg-de Vries equation (cmKdV) under nonzero boundary conditions (NZBCs), and successfully find its solutions with their various dynamic…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-04-07 Xiao-Fan Zhang , Shou-Fu Tian , Jin-Jie Yang

The Helmholtz equation in one dimension, which describes the propagation of electromagnetic waves in effectively one-dimensional systems, is equivalent to the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation. The fact that the potential term…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

We propose a new formulation of the Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV) on the real line, via a gauge transform. While KdV and the gauged equation are equivalent for smooth solutions, the latter is better behaved at low regularity in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Andreia Chapouto , Simão Correia , João Pedro Ramos

We study a class of 1+1 quadratically nonlinear water wave equations that combines the linear dispersion of the Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation with the nonlinear/nonlocal dispersion of the Camassa-Holm (CH) equation, yet still preserves…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-07 Holger R. Dullin , Georg Gottwald , Darryl D. Holm

(Due to the limit on the number of characters for an abstract set by arXiv, the full abstract can not be displayed here. See the abstract in the paper.) We study dispersive equations with a time non-homogeneous modulation acting on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Khalil Chouk , Massimiliano Gubinelli , Guopeng Li , Jiawei Li , Tadahiro Oh

A solution of the scattering problem is obtained for the Schr\"odinger equation with the potential of induced dipole interaction, which decreases as the inverse square of the distance. Such a potential arises in the collision of an incident…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 V. A. Gradusov , S. L. Yakovlev

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 discuss a new non-linear PDE, u_t + (2 u_xx/u) u_x = epsilon u_xxx, invariant under scaling of dependent variable and referred to here as SIdV. It is one of the simplest such translation and space-time reflection-symmetric first order…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-09-23 Abhijit Sen , Dilip P. Ahalpara , Anantanarayanan Thyagaraja , Govind S. Krishnaswami