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The Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) nonlinear wave equation is the three dimensional generalization of the Korteveg-de Vries (KdV) equation. We show how to obtain the cylindrical KP (cKP) and cartesian KP in relativistic fluid dynamics. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 D. A. Fogaça , F. S. Navarra , L. G. Ferreira Filho

We study the interaction of small amplitude, long wavelength solitary waves in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model with general nearest-neighbor interaction potential. We establish global-in-time existence and stability of counter-propagating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 A. Hoffman , C. E. Wayne

We consider a scalar Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) system on a square 2D lattice with a cubic nonlinearity. For such systems the NLS equation can be derived to describe the evolution of an oscillating moving wave packet of small amplitude…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Ioannis Giannoulis , Bernd Schmidt , Guido Schneider

We revisit existence and stability of two-pulse solutions in the fifth-order Korteweg--de Vries (KdV) equation with two new results. First, we modify the Petviashvili method of successive iterations for numerical (spectral) approximations…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Marina Chugunova , Dmitry Pelinovsky

In this paper, we delve into the study of the generalized KP equation, which incorporates double-power nonlinearities. Our investigation covers various aspects, including the existence of solitary waves, their nonlinear stability, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Amin Esfahani , Steven Levandosky , Gulcin M. Muslu

The genus-1 KP-Whitham system is derived for both variants of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation (namely, the KPI and KPII equations). The basic properties of the KP-Whitham system, including symmetries, exact reductions, and its…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-08-10 Mark J. Ablowitz , Gino Biondini , Qiao Wang

The Kadomtsev--Petviashvili (KP) hierarchy is the archetype of infinite-dimensional integrable systems, which describes nonlinear ion acoustic waves in two-dimensional space. This remarkably ordered system resides on a singular submanifold…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-25 Yuji Ohno , Zensho Yoshida

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of weakly transverse water-waves under a weak Coriolis forcing in the long wave regime. We derive the Boussinesq-Coriolis equations in this setting and we provide a rigorous justification of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Benjamin Melinand

The two-dimensional evolution of perturbed long weakly-nonlinear surface plane, ring, and hybrid waves, consisting, to leading order, of a part of a ring and two tangent plane waves, is modelled numerically within the scope of the 2D…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 Benjamin Martin , Dmitri Tseluiko , Karima Khusnutdinova

The KP-I equation \[ (u_t-2uu_x+\tfrac{1}{2}(\beta-\tfrac{1}{3})u_{xxx})_x -u_{yy}=0 \] arises as a weakly nonlinear model equation for gravity-capillary waves with strong surface tension (Bond number $\beta>1/3$). This equation admits ---…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Mats Ehrnström , Mark Groves

We study here the water-waves problem for uneven bottoms in a highly nonlinear regime where the small amplitude assumption of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is enforced. It is known, that for such regimes, a generalization of the KdV…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-22 Samer Israwi

Whitham modulation theory for certain two-dimensional evolution equations of Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) type is presented. Three specific examples are considered in detail: the KP equation, the two-dimensional Benjamin-Ono (2DBO) equation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-07-19 Mark J. Ablowitz , Gino Biondini , Igor Rumanov

The critical length phenomenon of the Korteweg-de Vries equation is well known; however, in higher dimensions, it is unknown. This work explores this property in the context of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation, a two-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Roberto de A. Capistrano-Filho , Fernando Gallego , Ricardo Muñoz

A two-dimensional (2D) generalization of the stabilized Kuramoto - Sivashinsky (KS) system is presented. It is based on the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation including dissipation of the generic (Newell -- Whitehead -- Segel, NWS) type…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Bao-Feng Feng , Boris A. Malomed , Takuji Kawahara

The celebrated (1+1)-dimensional Korteweg de-Vries (KdV) equation and its (2+1)-dimensional extention, the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation, are two of the most important models in physical science. The KP hierarchy is explicitly…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-08-26 S. Y. Lou

The Camassa-Holm-Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-I equation (CH-KP-I) is a two dimensional generalization of the Camassa-Holm equation (CH). In this paper, we prove transverse instability of the line solitary waves under periodic transverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Robin Ming Chen , Jie Jin

The KP-I equation arises as a weakly nonlinear model equation for gravity-capillary waves with Bond number $\beta>1/3$, also called strong surface tension. This equation has recently been shown to have a family of nondegenerate, symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Mats Ehrnström , Mark D. Groves

We consider a class of fully-nonlinear Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) lattices, consisting of a chain of particles coupled by fractional power nonlinearities of order $\alpha >1$. This class of systems incorporates a classical Hertzian model…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-03-05 Guillaume James , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

The Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation describes weakly dispersive and small amplitude waves propagating in a quasi-two dimensional situation. Recently a large variety of exact soliton solutions of the KP equation has been found and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-03-14 Chiu-Yen Kao , Yuji Kodama

The foundations of weak turbulence theory is explored through its application to the (alpha) Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) model, a simple weakly nonlinear dispersive system. A direct application of the standard kinetic equations would miss…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter R. Kramer , Joseph A. BIello , Yury Lvov