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Nonlinear waves in dispersive media can be succeptible to modulational instabilities. We examine a category of scalar equations, with general dispersion and monomial nonlinearity, including a large variety of KdV-like equations. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Bhavna Kaushik , Bernard Deconinck

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

A general equation for drift waves is derived incorporating both nonlinear electron density perturbation and ion vorticity effects. It is emphasized that the well-known Hasegawa-Mima (HM) equation for drift waves [A. Hasegawa and K. Mima,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Hamid Saleem

In this paper we study the effect of rotation on nonlinear wave phenomena in weakly dispersive media modeled by the Korteweg-de Vries equation on the real line. It is well known that smoothing in the case of the KdV equation with periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 M. B. Erdogan , N. Tzirakis

In linear science, the wave motion equation with general D'Alembert wave solutions is one of the fundamental models. The D'Alembert wave is an arbitrary travelling wave moving along one direction under a fixed model (material) dependent…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-05-23 Man Jia , S. Y. Lou

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

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…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-06 Su Yang

In this study, we give a survey of derivations of KdV-type equations with an uneven bottom for several cases when small (perturbation) parameters $\alpha, \beta, \delta$ are of different orders. Six different cases of such ordering are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-19 Anna Karczewska , Piotr Rozmej

The nolinear hydrodynamic equations of the surface of a liquid drop are shown to be directly connected to Korteweg de Vries (KdV, MKdV) systems, giving traveling solutions that are cnoidal waves. They generate multiscale patterns ranging…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-06 Andrei Ludu , Jerry P. Draayer

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

The propagation of water waves of finite depth and flat bottom is studied in the case when the depth is not small in comparison to the wavelength. This propagation regime is complementary to the long-wave regime described by the famous KdV…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-05-31 Rossen I. Ivanov

We address justification and solitary wave solutions of the cylindrical KdV equation which is formally derived as a long wave approximation of radially symmetric waves in a two-dimensional nonlinear dispersive system. For a regularized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-05 James Hornick , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Guido Schneider

We prove nonlinear modulational instability for both periodic and localized perturbations of periodic traveling waves for several dispersive PDEs, including the KDV type equations (e.g. the Whitham equation, the generalized KDV equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Jiayin Jin , Shasha Liao , Zhiwu Lin

We study the propagation of narrow solitons through various profiles of dispersive shock waves (DSW) for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation. We consider situations in which the soliton passes through the DSW region quickly enough…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-14 Shaykin Dmitriy

Generalized solitary waves with exponentially small non-decaying far field oscillations have been studied in a range of singularly-perturbed differential equations, including higher-order Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equations. Many of these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 Nalini Joshi , Christopher J. Lustri

Under certain mode-matching conditions, small-amplitude waves can be trapped by coupling to solitons of nonlinear fields. We present a model for this phenomenon, consisting of a linear equation coupled to the Korteweg-de Vries equation. The…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 P. D. Miller , S. R. Clarke

It is shown that the generalized discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation can be reduced in a small amplitude approximation to the KdV, mKdV, KdV(2) or the fifth-order KdV equations, depending on values of the parameters. In dispersionless…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 A. M. Kamchatnov , A. Spire , V. V. Konotop

Sardar et al. [Phys. Plasmas 23, 073703 (2016)] have studied the stability of small amplitude dust ion acoustic solitary waves in a collisionless unmagnetized electron - positron - ion - dust plasma. They have derived a Kadomtsev…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Sankirtan Sardar , Anup Bandyopadhyay , K. P. Das

The evolution of a solitary wave with very weak nonlinearity which was originally investigated by Miles [4] is revisited. The solution for a one-dimensional gravity wave in a water of uniform depth is considered. This leads to finding the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-04-11 S. G. Sajjadi , T. A. Smith

We consider a generalization of the mKdV model of shallow water out-flows. This generalization is a family of equations with nonlinear dispersion terms containing, in particular, KdV, mKdV, Benjamin-Bona-Mahony, Camassa-Holm, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Jesus Noyola-Rodriguez , Georgy Omel'yanov