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We study a dispersive counterpart of the classical gas dynamics problem of the interaction of a shock wave with a counter-propagating simple rarefaction wave often referred to as the shock wave refraction. The refraction of a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-28 G. A. El , V. V. Khodorovskii , A. M. Leszczyszyn

We consider a higher-dimensional version of the Benjamin-Ono (HBO) equation in the 2D setting: $u_t- \mathcal{R}_1 \Delta u + \frac{1}{2}(u^2)_x=0, (x,y) \in \mathbb{R}^2$, which is $L^2$-critical, and investigate properties of solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Oscar Riaño , Svetlana Roudenko , Kai Yang

This paper probes the dispersive shock waves (DSWs) theory in nonlinear optical systems through Whitham modulation theory for the high-order Chen-Lee-Liu (HOCLL) equation. We systematically derived the one-phase periodic solutions and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Hua-Ying Ren , Rui Guo , Jian-Wen Zhang

It is shown that the generalized discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation can be reduced in a small amplitude approximation to the KdV, mKdV, KdV(2) or the fifth-order KdV equations, depending on values of the parameters. In dispersionless…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 A. M. Kamchatnov , A. Spire , V. V. Konotop

We suggest a method for calculation of parameters of dispersive shock waves in framework of Whitham modulation theory applied to non-integrable wave equations with a wide class of initial conditions corresponding to propagation of a pulse…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-01-09 A. M. Kamchatnov

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) are expanding nonlinear wave trains that arise when dispersion regularizes a steepening front, a phenomenon observed in fluids, plasmas, optics, and superfluids. Here we report the first experimental…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 H. McCright , I. G. Abel , I. Haber , P. G. O'Shea , B. L. Beaudoin

The nonlinear theory of two-dimensional ion-acoustic (IA) solitary waves and shocks (SWS) is revisited in a dissipative quantum plasma. The effects of dispersion, caused by the charge separation of electrons and ions and the quantum force…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. P. Misra , B. Sahu

In the present work we study the nucleation of Dispersive shock waves (DSW) in the {defocusing}, discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation (DNLS), a model of wide relevance to nonlinear optics and atomic condensates. Here, we study the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-11 Shrohan Mohapatra , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Su Yang , Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli

A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a quantum fluid that gives rise to interesting shock wave nonlinear dynamics. Experiments depict a BEC that exhibits behavior similar to that of a shock wave in a compressible gas, eg. traveling fronts…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Hoefer , M. J. Ablowitz , I. Coddington , E. A. Cornell , P. Engels , V. Schweikhard

Supersonic flow of a superfluid past a slender impenetrable macroscopic obstacle is studied in the framework of the two-dimensional defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation. This problem is of fundamental importance as a dispersive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-29 G. A. El , A. M. Kamchatnov , V. V. Khodorovskii , E. S. Annibale , A. Gammal

The problem of wave breaking during its propagation in the Bose-Einstein condensate to a stationary medium is considered for the case when the initial profile at the breaking instant can be approximated by a power function of the form…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-31 A. M. Kamchatnov

We study the nonlinear dynamics of localized perturbations within the framework of the essentially two-dimensional generalization of the Benjamin-Ono equation (2D-BO) derived asymptotically from the Navier-Stokes equation. By simulating the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Joseph O. Oloo , Victor I. Shrira

Considered here are two systems of equations modeling the two-way propagation of long-crested, long-wavelength internal waves along the interface of a two-layer system of fluids in the Benjamin-Ono and the Intermediate Long-Wave regime,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-01 Jerry Bona , Angel Duran , Dimitrios Mitsotakis

In most classical fluids, shock waves are strongly dissipative, their energy being quickly lost through viscous damping. But in systems such as cold plasmas, superfluids, and Bose-Einstein condensates, where viscosity is negligible or…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wenjie Wan , Shu Jia , Jason W. Fleischer

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…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-03-06 Saleh Baqer , Theodoros P. Horikis , Dimitrios J. Frantzeskakis

Whitham modulation theory describes the zero dispersion limit of nonlinear waves by a system of conservation laws for the parameters of modulated periodic traveling waves. Here, admissible, discontinuous, weak solutions of the Whitham…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-24 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer

In this paper, we study the nonlinear dispersive waves including the rarefaction and dispersive shock waves in the discrete modified KdV equation through the numerical simulations of the dispersive Riemann problems. In particular, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-06 Su Yang

Dissipationless shock waves in modulational unstable one-dimensional medium are investigated on the simplest example of integrable focusing nonlinear Schr\''odinger (NS) equation. Our approach is based on the construction of special exact…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 Ramil' F. Bikbaev , Vadim R. Kudashev

The leading-order asymptotic behavior of the solution of the Cauchy initial-value problem for the Benjamin-Ono equation in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ is obtained explicitly for generic rational initial data $u_0$. An explicit asymptotic wave profile…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Elliot Blackstone , Louise Gassot , Patrick Gérard , Peter D. Miller

Dispersive shock waves (DSW) are a salient feature of long water waves often observed in tidal bores and tsunami/meteotsunami contexts. Their interaction with bathymetry is poorly understood. The shoreline hazard from tsunamis and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-13 Alex. Sheremet , Victor I. Shrira