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Autoresonant (continuously phase-locked) two-phase waves of the Korteweg-de-Vries equation are excited and controlled using a two-component, small amplitude, chirped frequency driving. These solutions are analyzed in the weakly nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-03-25 L. Friedland , A. G. Shagalov

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

We report on a number of careful numerical experiments motivated by the semiclassical (zero-dispersion, \epsilon\downarrow 0) limit of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Our experiments are designed to study the evolution of a…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2012-07-05 Long Lee , Gregory Lyng , Irena Vankova

We consider a nonlinear semi-classical Schrodinger equation for which it is known that quadratic oscillations lead to focusing at one point, described by a nonlinear scattering operator. If the initial data is an energy bounded sequence, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Remi Carles , Clotilde Fermanian-Kammerer , Isabelle Gallagher

The rigorous asymptotic analysis for the Riemann problem of the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger hydrodynamics is a very interesting problem with many challenges. To date, the full analysis of this problem remains open. In this work,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Deng-Shan Wang , Peng Yan

We show wave breaking for the Whitham equation in a range of fractional dispersion, i.e. the solution remains bounded but its slope becomes unbounded in finite time, provided that the initial datum is sufficiently steep.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Lizheng Tao

The Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation with small dispersion is a model for the formation and propagation of dispersive shock waves in one dimension. Dispersive shock waves in KdV are characterized by the appearance of zones of rapid…

solv-int · Physics 2008-02-03 T. Grava

This paper probes the dispersive shock waves (DSWs) theory in nonlinear optical systems through Whitham modulation theory for the high-order Chen-Lee-Liu (HOCLL) equation. We systematically derived the one-phase periodic solutions and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Hua-Ying Ren , Rui Guo , Jian-Wen Zhang

We address the degree of universality of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam recurrence induced by multisoliton fission from a harmonic excitation by analysing the case of the semiclassical defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation, which models nonlinear…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-11-02 Guo Deng , Sitai Li , Gino Biondini , Stefano Trillo

The generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with full dispersion (FDNLS) is considered in the semiclassical regime. The Whitham modulation equations are obtained for the FDNLS equation with general linear dispersion and a generalized,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-09-26 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer , Boaz Ilan

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

We propose a phase-space formulation for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a white-noise potential in order to shed light on two issues: the rate of spread and the singularity formation in the average sense. Our main tools are the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Albert C. Fannjiang

We study the process of dispersion of low-regularity solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation using fractional weights (observables). We give another proof of the uncertainty principle for fractional weights and use it to get a lower bound…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Sandeep Kumar , Felipe Ponce-Vanegas , Luis Vega

We study the quasi-periodic standing wave solutions of the focusing and defocusing cubic nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations in dimension one. In the defocusing case, we establish a diffeomorphic correspondence between the invariants of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Perla Kfoury , Stefan Le Coz , Tai-Peng Tsai

We present a model of optical communication system for high-bit-rate data transmission in the nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) format over transoceanic distance. The system operates in a small group velocity dispersion regime, and the model equation…

solv-int · Physics 2008-02-03 Yuji Kodama

Using a Fourier spectral method, we provide a detailed numerically investigation of dispersive Schr\"odinger type equations involving a fractional Laplacian. By an appropriate choice of the dispersive exponent, both mass and energy sub- and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-19 C. Klein , C. Sparber , P. Markowich

We modify the nonlinear shallow water equations, the Korteweg-de Vries equation, and the Whitham equation, to permit constant vorticity, and examine wave breaking, or the lack thereof. By wave breaking, we mean that the solution remains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Vera Mikyoung Hur

We study the Whitham equations for the defocusing complex modified KdV (mKdV) equation. These Whitham equations are quasilinear hyperbolic equations and they describe the averaged dynamics of the rapid oscillations which appear in the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-10-18 Yuji Kodama , V. U. Pierce , Fei-Ran Tian

A mathematical model for the discrete nonlinear fragmentation (collision-induced breakage) equation with diffusion is studied. The existence of global weak solutions is established in arbitrary spatial dimensions without assuming a strictly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Saumyajit Das , Ram Gopal Jaiswal

This paper introduces weighted finite difference methods for numerically solving dispersive evolution equations with solutions that are highly oscillatory in both space and time. We consider a semiclassically scaled cubic nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Yanyan Shi , Christian Lubich