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The KdV equation is a model equation for waves at the surface of an inviscid incompressible fluid, and it is well known that the equation describes the evolution of unidirectional waves of small amplitude and long wavelength fairly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-31 Mats K. Brun , Henrik Kalisch

On a two-dimensional planar parity-time-($\mathcal{PT}$-)symmetric nonlinear magnetic metamaterial, consisting of split-ring dimers with balanced gain and loss, discrete breather solutions can be found. We extend these studies and by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-12-25 Sascha Böhrkircher , Sebastian Erfort , Holger Cartarius , Günter Wunner

Using the Inverse Scattering Method with a nonvanishing boundary condition, we obtain the square k^2 of a focusing modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) breather solution with non zero vacuum parameter b^2 . We are able to factorize and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-19 Miguel A. Alejo

The classical equations of irrotational water waves have recently been reformulated as a system of two equations, one of which is an explicit non-local equation for the wave height and for the velocity potential evaluated on the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-01 Anthony C. L Ashton , A. S. Fokas

We applied canonical transformation to water wave equation not only to remove cubic nonlinear terms but to simplify drastically fourth order terms in Hamiltonian. This transformation explicitly uses the fact of vanishing exact four waves…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. I. Dyachenko , V. E. Zakharov , D. I. Kachulin

The extended KdV equation is a nonlinear dispersive wave model that is asymptotically or variationally derived from the full dispersive Euler shallow water waves equations when gravity-capillary and higher order nonlinear effects are taken…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-15 Saleh Baqer , Hamid Said

It is proved that approximations which are obtained as solutions of the multiphase Whitham modulation equations stay close to solutions of the original equation on a natural time scale. The class of nonlinear wave equations chosen for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Tom Bridges , Anna Kostianko , Guido Schneider

Time-periodic weak solutions for a coupled hyperbolic-parabolic system are obtained. A linear heat and wave equation are considered on two respective $d$-dimensional spatial domains that share a common $(d-1)$-dimensional interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Stanislav Mosny , Boris Muha , Sebastian Schwarzacher , Justin T. Webster

In this paper we derive a higher-order KdV equation (HKdV) as a model to describe the unidirectional propagation of waves on an internal interface separating two fluid layers of varying densities. Our model incorporates underlying currents…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-06-13 David Henry , Rossen I. Ivanov , Zisis N. Sakellaris

Klein-Gordon equations describe the dynamics of waves/particles in sub-atomic scales. For nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations, their breather solutions are usually known as time periodic solutions with the vanishing spatial-boundary condition.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-15 Yasuhiro Takei , Yoritaka Iwata

A single incompressible, inviscid, irrotational fluid medium bounded above by a free surface is considered. The Hamiltonian of the system is expressed in terms of the so-called Dirichlet-Neumann operators. The equations for the surface…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-09-06 Rossen I. Ivanov

We prove wave breaking --- bounded solutions with unbounded derivatives --- in the nonlinear nonlocal equation which combines the dispersion relation of water waves and a nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, provided that the slope…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Vera Mikyoung Hur

A nonlinear wave equation that describes different nonlinear effects in various fields of research was considered. In two particular cases, this equation was reduced to the Sine-Gordon equation and the Born-Infeld equation. Using the slowly…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-07-07 G. T. Adamashvili

We construct breather and rogue wave solutions of a variable coefficient nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an external linear potential. This generalized model describes the nonlinear wave propagation in an inhomogeneous plasma/medium.…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2014-07-14 K. Manikandan , M. Senthilvelan

We consider the Cauchy problem for the fifth-order modified Korteweg-de Vries equation (mKdV) under the periodic boundary condition. The fifth-order mKdV is an asymptotic model for shallow surface waves, and (in the perspective of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Chulkwang Kwak , Kiyeon Lee

In this work, modulation of periodic interfacial waves on a conduit of viscous liquid is explored utilizing Whitham theory and Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) theory. Large amplitude periodic wave modulation theory does not require…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 Michelle D. Maiden , Mark. A. Hoefer

We study the existence of polychromatic solutions of cubically nonlinear Maxwell equations in the whole space and with dispersive media, i.e., with a time delayed polarization. Due to the complex nature of the dielectric function, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Tomas Dohnal , Maximilian Hanisch , Runan He

We develop a general framework to describe the cubically nonlinear interaction of a unidirectional degenerate quartet of deep-water gravity waves. Starting from the discretised Zakharov equation, and thus without restriction on spectral…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-22 David Andrade , Raphael Stuhlmeier

Breather solutions of the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation are shown to be globally stable in a natural H^2 topology. Our proof introduces a new Lyapunov functional, at the H^2 level, which allows to describe the dynamics of small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Miguel Angel Alejo , Claudio Muñoz

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