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The collision properties of overtaking small-amplitude supersolitons are investigated for the fluid model of a plasma consisting of cold ions and two-temperature Boltzmann electrons. A reductive perturbation analysis is performed for…
Soliton motion in some external potentials is studied using the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Solitons are scattered by a potential wall. Solitons propagate almost freely or are trapped in a periodic potential. The critical kinetic…
We construct a definition of the weak solution to KdV type equations with small dispersion admitting the zero dispersion limit for soliton-like solutions. Using this definition, we obtain a system of equations (the limit problem as the…
We establish the nonlinear stability of solitary waves (solitons) and periodic traveling wave solutions (cnoidal waves) for a Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation which includes a fifth order dispersive term. The traveling wave solutions which…
Small-amplitude waves in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) lattice with weakly anharmonic interaction potentials are described by the generalized Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. Justification of the small-amplitude approximation is usually…
In this paper, we reconsider the well-known result of Pego-Weinstein \cite{MR1289328} that soliton solutions to the Korteweg-deVries equation are asymptotically stable in exponentially weighted spaces. In this work, we recreate this result…
We study the behavior of the soliton which, while moving in non-dissipative medium encounters a barrier with dissipation. The modelling included the case of a finite dissipative layer as well as a wave passing from a dissipative layer into…
We propose a general method to derive kinetic equations for dense soliton gases in physical systems described by integrable nonlinear wave equations. The kinetic equation describes evolution of the spectral distribution function of solitons…
The semi-classical Korteweg-deVries equation for step-like data is considered with a small parameter in front of the highest derivative. Using perturbation analysis Whitham theory is constructed to higher order. This allows the order one…
The discrete spectra of certain two-dimensional Schrodinger operators are numerically calculated. These operators have interesting spectral properties, i.e. their kernels are multi-dimensional and the deformations of potentials via the…
The aim of this work is to study trapped waves and their collisions between two topographic obstacles for the forced Korteweg-de Vries equation. Numerical simulations show that solitary waves remain trapped bouncing back and forth between…
The transmission eigenvalue problem is a type of non-elliptic and non-selfadjoint spectral problem that arises in the wave scattering theory when invisibility/transparency occurs. The transmission eigenfunctions are the interior resonant…
This paper constructs the $N$-fold Darboux transformation (DT) for the vector complex modified Korteweg-de Vries (vcmKdV) equation and presents its determinant representation. Utilizing the DT and multi-fold eigenvalue degeneracy, we derive…
For the KdV equation with box type initial data, the interaction between a trial soliton and large-scale dispersive mean flow is studied theoretically and numerically. The pure box initial value can cause rarefaction wave and dispersive…
We analyze shallow water wind waves in Currituck Sound, North Carolina and experimentally confirm, for the first time, the presence of $soliton$ $turbulence$ in ocean waves. Soliton turbulence is an exotic form of nonlinear wave motion…
We investigated phase defects in a quasi-one-dimensional commensurate charge density wave (CDW) system, an In atomic wire array on Si(111), using low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy. The unique four-fold degeneracy of the CDW…
The Riemann-Hilbert problem associated with the integrable PDE is used as a nonlinear transformation of the nearly integrable PDE to the spectral space. The temporal evolution of the spectral data is derived with account for arbitrary…
Direct scattering transform of nonlinear wave fields with solitons may lead to anomalous numerical errors of soliton phase and position parameters. With the focusing one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation serving as a model, we…
We solve the fifth-order Korteweg-de Vries (fKdV) equation which is a modified KdV equation perturbed by a fifth-order derivative term multiplied by a small parameter $\epsilon^2$, with $0< \epsilon \ll 1$. Unlike the KdV equation, the…
The dynamics of two-component solitons with a small spatial displacement of the high-frequency (HF) component relative to the low-frequency (LF) one is investigated in the framework of the Zakharov-type system. In this system, the evolution…