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The KdV-Burgers equation is a canonical model describing the interplay between nonlinearity, viscosity and dispersion, and it admits viscous-dispersive shocks as traveling wave solutions. In this paper, we establish an $L^2$-contraction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Geng Chen , Namhyun Eun , Moon-Jin Kang , Yannan Shen

We provide a both qualitative and quantitative comparison among different approaches aimed to solve the problem of non-linear diffusive acceleration of particles at shocks. In particular, we show that state-of-the-art models (numerical,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 D. Caprioli , Hyesung Kang , A. Vladimirov , T. W. Jones

The existence of ``dispersion-managed solitons'', i.e., stable pulsating solitary-wave solutions to the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with periodically modulated and sign-variable dispersion is now well known in nonlinear optics. Our…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Simon Clarke , Boris A. Malomed , Roger Grimshaw

Alternating the signs of the frequencies for Fourier components with even and odd (normalized) wavenumbers in the nonlinear-wave, such as the Korteweg-de Vries, equations maintains a constantly drifting dispersive shock with similar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Jian-Zhou Zhu

We show how to apply ideas from the theory of rough paths to the analysis of low-regularity solutions to non-linear dispersive equations. Our basic example will be the one dimensional Korteweg--de Vries (KdV) equation on a periodic domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-07-21 M. Gubinelli

We investigate the presence of soliton solutions in some classes of nonlinear partial differential equations, namely generalized Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers, Korteveg-de Vries-Huxley, and Korteveg-de Vries-Burgers-Huxley equations, which…

solv-int · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Bazeia , E. P. Raposo

The one-dimensional piston shock problem is a classical result of shock wave theory. In this work, the analogous dispersive shock wave (DSW) problem for a dispersive fluid described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is analyzed.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-08-12 M. A. Hoefer , M. J. Ablowitz , P. Engels

We investigate the effect of non-paraxiality in the dynamics of dispersive shock waves in the defocusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation. We show that the problem can be described in terms of a relativistic particle moving in a potential.…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-24 Silvia Gentilini , Eugenio DelRe , Claudio Conti

This paper investigates the well-posedness and small-noise asymptotics of a class of stochastic partial differential equations defined on a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$, where the diffusion coefficient depends nonlinearly and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Sandra Cerrai , Giuseppina Guatteri , Gianmario Tessitore

In this paper we perform the analysis of spectral properties of the linearized system around constant states and dispersive shock for a 1-D compressible Euler system with dissipation--dispersion terms. The dispersive term is originated by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Corrado Lattanzio , Pierangelo Marcati , Delyan Zhelyazov

We theoretically describe the quasi one-dimensional transverse spreading of a light pulse propagating in a nonlinear optical material in the presence of a uniform background light intensity. For short propagation distances the pulse can be…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-30 M. Isoard , A. M. Kamchatnov , N. Pavloff

We introduce and systematically investigate the generation of dispersive shock waves, which arise naturally in physical settings such as optical waveguide arrays and superfluids confined within optical lattices. The underlying physically…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-13 Su Yang , Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We study the dispersive properties of a linear equation in one spatial dimension which is inspired by models in peridynamics. The interplay between nonlocality and dispersion is analyzed in detail through the study of the asymptotics at low…

The long-time asymptotic solution of the Korteweg-de Vries equation for general, step-like initial data is analyzed. Each sub-step in well-separated, multi-step data forms its own single dispersive shock wave (DSW); at intermediate times…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-12 Mark J. Ablowitz , Douglas E. Baldwin

We prove nonlinear modulational instability for both periodic and localized perturbations of periodic traveling waves for several dispersive PDEs, including the KDV type equations (e.g. the Whitham equation, the generalized KDV equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Jiayin Jin , Shasha Liao , Zhiwu Lin

We review various methods for the analysis of initial-value problems for integrable dispersive equations in the weak-dispersion or semiclassical regime. Some methods are sufficiently powerful to rigorously explain the generation of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-24 Peter D. Miller

In the long-wave regime, nonlinear waves may undergo a phase transition from a smooth to a fast oscillatory behaviour. We study this phenomenon, commonly known as dispersive shock, in the light of Dubrovin's universality conjecture , and we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-09 Davide Masoero , Andrea Raimondo , Pedro R. S. Antunes

We study viscous-dispersive shock waves with infinite oscillations of the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers (KdVB) equation. First, we establish detail structures of the shock waves, including the rates at which the local extrema converge to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Geng Chen , Namhyun Eun , Moon-Jin Kang , Yannan Shen

We consider the long-time evolution of pulses in the Korteweg-de Vries equation theory for initial distributions which produce no soliton, but instead lead to the formation of a dispersive shock wave and of a rarefaction wave. An approach…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-01-23 M. Isoard , A. M. Kamchatnov , N. Pavloff

Using the Calogero model as an example, we show that the transport in interacting non-dissipative electronic systems is essentially non-linear. Non-linear effects are due to the curvature of the electronic spectrum near the Fermi energy. As…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Eldad Bettelheim , Alexander G. Abanov , Paul Wiegmann