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In this paper we study the asymptotics of solutions to the Korteweg--de Vries equation with steplike initial data, which lead to shock waves in the region between the asymptotically constant region and the soliton region, as $t \rightarrow…
We revisit the asymptotic analysis of the KdV shock problem in the soliton region. Our approach is based on the analysis of the associated Riemann-Hilbert problem and we extend the domain of validity of the asymptotic formulas while at the…
This work investigates the long-time asymptotics of solution to defocusing modified Korteweg-de Vries equation with a class of step initial data. A rigorous asymptotic analysis is conducted on the associated Riemann-Hilbert problem by…
In this announcement we present a general and new approach to analyzing the asymptotics of oscillatory Riemann-Hilbert problems. Such problems arise, in particular, in evaluating the long-time behavior of nonlinear wave equations solvable…
We show how the inverse scattering transform can be used as a convenient tool to derive the long-time asymptotics of shock waves for the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in the soliton region. In particular, we improve the results…
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…
We obtain an asymptotic expansion for the solution of the Cauchy problem for the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in the small dispersion limit near the point of gradient catastrophe (x_c,t_c) for the solution of the dispersionless…
We study the Cauchy problem for the defocusing modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation with step-like initial data approaching nonzero constants $c_l$ and $c_r$ as $x \to -\infty$ and $x\to+\infty$, respectively. Assuming $c_l>c_r>0$,…
We systematically investigate the long-time asymptotics for the $N_{\infty}$-soliton solution to the KdV equation in the different regions with the aid of the Riemann-Hilbert (RH) problems with two types of generalized reflection…
This work investigates the long-time asymptotic behaviors of the solution to the KdV equation with delta function initial profiles in different regions, employing the Riemann-Hilbert formulation and Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent…
We investigate the large-time asymptotics of solution for the Cauchy problem of the nonlocal focusing modified Kortweg-de Vries (MKdV) equation with step-like initial data, i.e., $u_0(x)\rightarrow 0$ as $x\rightarrow-\infty$,…
We consider the modified Korteveg de Vriez equation on the whole line. Initial data is real and step-like, i.e. $q(x,0)=0$ for $x\geq0$ and $q(x,0)=c$ for $x<0$, where c is arbitrary real number. The goal of this paper is to study the…
We study the small dispersion limit for the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation $u_t+6uu_x+\epsilon^{2}u_{xxx}=0$ in a critical scaling regime where $x$ approaches the trailing edge of the region where the KdV solution shows oscillatory…
In this paper, we obtain the long-time asymptotics of complex mKdV equation via Defit-Zhou method (Non-linear steepest descent method). The Cauchy problem of complex mKdV equation is transformed into the corresponding Riemann-Hilbert…
In this paper, we study large-time asymptotics for the complex modified Korteveg-de Vries equation \begin{equation} u_t + \frac{1}{2}u_{xxx}+3|u|^2 u_x=0, \end{equation} with the step-like initial data \begin{equation} u(x,0)=u_0(x)=…
We analytically study the long time and large space asymptotics of a new broad class of solutions of the KdV equation introduced by Dyachenko, Zakharov, and Zakharov. These solutions are characterized by a Riemann--Hilbert problem which we…
The integrable 3rd-order Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation emerges uniquely at linear order in the asymptotic expansion for unidirectional shallow water waves. However, at quadratic order, this asymptotic expansion produces an entire {\it…
While real-valued solutions of the Korteweg--de Vries (KdV) equation have been studied extensively over the past 50 years, much less attention has been devoted to solution behaviour in the complex plane. Here we consider the analytic…
We present a method to compute dispersive shock wave solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation that emerge from initial data with step-like boundary conditions at infinity. We derive two different Riemann-Hilbert problems associated with…
Based on the nonlinear steepest descent method of Deift and Zhou for oscillatory Riemann--Hilbert problems and the Dbar approach, the long-time asymptotic behavior of solutions to the fifth-order modified Korteweg-de Vries equation on the…