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Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-01-31 Nicholas K. Lowman , Mark A. Hoefer

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

The long time behavior of an initial step resulting in a dispersive shock wave (DSW) for the one-dimensional isentropic Euler equations regularized by generic, third order dispersion is considered by use of Whitham averaging. Under modest…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-07-18 M. A. Hoefer

In dispersive media, hydrodynamic singularities are resolved by coherent wavetrains known as dispersive shock waves (DSWs). Only dynamically expanding, temporal DSWs are possible in one-dimensional media. The additional degree of freedom…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-11-01 M. A. Hoefer , G. A. El , A. M. Kamchatnov

We study the formation and dynamics of shock waves initiated by a repulsive potential in a superfluid unitary Fermi gas by using the order-parameter equation. In the theoretical framework, the regularization process of shock waves mediated…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-03 Wen Wen , Tiankun Shui , Yafei Shan , Changping Zhu

The addition of higher order asymptotic corrections to the Korteweg-de Vries equation results in the extended Korteweg-de Vries equation. These higher order terms destabilise the dispersive shock wave solution, also termed an undular bore…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-02-15 Saleh Baqer , Noel F. Smyth

There is growing physical and mathematical interest in the hydrodynamics of dissipationless/dispersive media. Since G.~B.~Whitham's seminal publication fifty years ago that ushered in the mathematical study of dispersive hydrodynamics,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-02 G. A. El , M. A. Hoefer

Dissipationless hydrodynamics regularized by dispersion describe a number of physical media including water waves, nonlinear optics, and Bose-Einstein condensates. As in the classical theory of hyperbolic equations where a non-convex flux…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer

The aim is to assess the combined effect of diffusion and dispersion on shocks in the moderate dispersion regime. For a diffusive dispersive approximation of the equations of one-dimensional elasticity (or p-system), we study convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Daria Bolbot , Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

We present a way to deal with dispersion-dominated ``shock-type'' transition in the absence of completely integrable structure for the systems that one may characterize as strictly hyperbolic regularized by a small amount of dispersion. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 G. A. El

We use the Gurevich-Pitaevskii approach based on the Whitham averaging method for studying the formation of dispersive shock waves in an intense light pulse propagating through a saturable nonlinear medium. Although the Whitham modulation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-23 Sergey K. Ivanov , Jules-Elemir Suchorski , Anatoly M. Kamchatnov , Mathieu Isoard , Nicolas Pavloff

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) in the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation and two dimensional Benjamin-Ono (2DBO) equation are considered using parabolic front initial data. Employing a front tracking type ansatz exactly reduces the study…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-05-04 Mark J. Ablowitz , Ali Demirci , Yi-Ping Ma

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

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

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs), which connect states of different amplitude via a modulated wave train, form generically in nonlinear dispersive media subjected to abrupt changes in state. The primary tool for the analytical study of DSWs is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-06-23 Christopher Chong , Michael Herrmann , P. G. Kevrekidis

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 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

The Riemann problem for the discrete conservation law $2 \dot{u}_n + u^2_{n+1} - u^2_{n-1} = 0$ is classified using Whitham modulation theory, a quasi-continuum approximation, and numerical simulations. A surprisingly elaborate set of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-21 Patrick Sprenger , Christopher Chong , Emmanuel Okyere , Michael Herrmann , P. G. Kevrekidis , Mark A. Hoefer

The formation of dispersive shock waves in the one-dimensional Bose gas represents a limitation of Generalized Hydrodynamics (GHD) due to the coarse-grained nature of the theory. Nevertheless, GHD accurately captures the long wavelength…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-11 Frederik Møller , Philipp Schüttelkopf , Jörg Schmiedmayer , Sebastian Erne

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…

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