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We demonstrate the controllable generation of distinct types of dispersive shock-waves emerging in a quantum droplet bearing environment with the aid of step-like initial conditions. Dispersive regularization of the ensuing hydrodynamic…

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For the KdV equation with box type initial data, the interaction between a trial soliton and large-scale dispersive mean flow is studied theoretically and numerically. The pure box initial value can cause rarefaction wave and dispersive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-09-24 Ruizhi Gong , Deng-Shan Wang

In this paper we develop a reduction procedure for determining exact wave solutions of first order quasilinear hyperbolic one-dimensional nonhomogeneous systems. The approach is formulated within the theoretical framework of the method of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Alessandra Jannelli , Natale Manganaro , Alessandra Rizzo

A Riemann problem with prescribed initial conditions will produce one of three possible wave patterns corresponding to the propagation of the different discontinuities that will be produced once the system is allowed to relax. In general,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-17 L. Rezzolla , O. Zanotti

We investigate the temporal photonic analogue of the dam-break phenomenon for shallow water by exploiting a fiber optics setup. We clearly observe the decay of the step-like input (photonic dam) into a pair of oppositely propagating…

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

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

We investigate the small but finite amplitude solitary Kinetic Alfv\'{e}n waves (KAWs) in low $\beta$ plasmas with superthermal electrons modeled by a kappa-type distribution. A nonlinear Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation describing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Bains , B. Li , L. -D. Xia

We develop modulation theory for undular bores (dispersive shock waves) in the framework of the Gardner, or extended Korteweg--de Vries, equation, which is a generic mathematical model for weakly nonlinear and weakly dispersive wave…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-03-26 A. M. Kamchatnov , Y. -H. Kuo , T. -C. Lin , T. -L. Horng , S. -C. Gou , R. Clift , G. A. El , R. H. J. Grimshaw

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

The truncated Korteweg-De Vries (TKdV) system, a shallow-water wave model with Hamiltonian structure that exhibits weakly turbulent dynamics, has been found to accurately predict the anomalous wave statistics observed in recent laboratory…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-10 Hui Sun , Nicholas J. Moore

Context. The correct modeling of the scattering polarization signals observed in several strong resonance lines requires taking partial frequency redistribution (PRD) phenomena into account. Aims. This work aims at assessing the impact and…

The low frequency, long wavelength electromagnetic waves, viz, shear Alfven wave in quantum electron-positron-ion magneto plasmas, have been examined using quantum magneto hydrodynamic model. In this model, we have considered electrons and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Zahida Ehsan , M. Shahid , Muhammad Ali Rana , Mushtaq Ahmad , Alireza Abdikian , Atif Shahbaz

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…

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We consider the step Riemann problem for the system of equations describing the propagation of a coherent light beam in nematic liquid crystals, which is a general system describing nonlinear wave propagation in a number of different…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-27 Gennady A. El , Noel F. Smyth

The HLLEM scheme is a popular contact and shear preserving approximate Riemann solver for cheap and accurate computation of high speed gasdynamical flows. Unfortunately this scheme is known to be plagued by various forms of numerical shock…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Sangeeth Simon , J. C. Mandal

We study the resolution of discontinuous singularities in gas dynamics via multi-dimensional rarefaction waves. While the mechanism is well-understood in one spatial dimension, the rigorous construction in higher dimensions has remained a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Haoran He , Qichen He

A theoretical investigation has been made of electron acoustic wave propagating in unmagnetized collisionless plasma consisting of a cold electron fluid and isothermal ions with two different temperatures obeying Boltzmann type…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-04-14 S. A. El-Wakil , E. M. Abulwafa , E. K. El-Shewy , H. M. Abd-El-Hamid

The dispersion equation of MGD plasma waves measured in a reference frame with a relative speed from that where they are generated is derived. The analysis leads further from what is known for waves produced in stationary plasmas in the…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 H. Pérez-de-Tejada , Eric Gómez-Gómez

Nonlinear effects in the propagation of perturbations in a dusty electron-ion plasma is studied, considering fully relativistic wave motion. A multifluid model is considered for the particles, from which a KdV equation can be derived. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Maricarmen A. Winkler , Víctor Muñoz , Felipe A. Asenjo