Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Transform
Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Transform
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DOI:
10.1007/978-0-8176-8265-1_9
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发表时间:
2012
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L. Debnath
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L. Debnath
Dispersion and nonlinearity play a fundamental role in wave motions in nature. The nonlinear shallow water equations that neglect dispersion altogether lead to breaking phenomena of the typical hyperbolic kind with the development of a vertical profile. In particular, the linear dispersive term in the Korteweg–de Vries equation prevents this from ever happening in its solution. In general, breaking can be prevented by including dispersive effects in the shallow water theory. The nonlinear theory provides some insight into the question of how nonlinearity affects dispersive wave motions. Another interesting feature is the instability and subsequent modulation of an initially uniform wave profile.