Ratliff, Daniel and Bridges, Thomas J (2018) Reduction to modified KdV and its KP-like generalization via phase modulation. Nonlinearity, 31 (8). pp. 3794-3813. ISSN 0951-7715
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Abstract
The main observation of this paper is that the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation has its natural origin in phase modulation of a basic state such as a periodic travelling wave, or more generally, a family of relative equilibria. Extension to 2 + 1 suggests that a modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (or a Konopelchenko-Dubrovsky) equation should emerge, but our result shows that there is an additional term which has gone heretofore unnoticed. Thus, through the novel application of phase modulation a new equation appears as the 2 + 1 extension to a previously known one. To demonstrate the theory it is applied to the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger (CQNLS) equation, showing that there are relevant parameter values where a modified KP equation bifurcates from periodic travelling wave solutions of the 2 + 1 CQNLS equation.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | nonlinear waves, Lagrangian fields, phase dynamics |
Subjects: | G100 Mathematics |
Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering |
Depositing User: | John Coen |
Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2020 14:16 |
Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2021 12:18 |
URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/44112 |
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