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The moment quantities associated with the nonlinear Schrodinger equation offer important insights towards the evolution dynamics of such dispersive wave partial differential equation (PDE) models. The effective dynamics of the moment…
This work proposes an iterative sparse-regularized regression method to recover governing equations of nonlinear dynamical systems from noisy state measurements. The method is inspired by the Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics…
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