The object of this article is the comparison of numerical solutions of the so-called Whitham equation describing wave motion at the surface of a perfect fluid to numerical approximations of solutions of the full Euler free-surface water-wave problem. The Whitham equation ηt + 3 2 c0 h0 ηηx +Kh0∗ ηx = 0 was proposed by Whitham [33] as an alternative to the KdV equation for the description of sur...

Soliton damping in weakly dissipative media has been studied for several decades, usually using the asymptotic theory of the slowly-varying solitary wave solution of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. Damping then occurs according to the energy balance equation, and a shelf is generated behind the soliton. Various examples of this process have been given by Ott & Sudan (1970) Pelinovsky (197...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Inspired by the recent successful completion of study well-posedness theory for Cauchy problem Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation</p><p style='text-indent:20px;'><disp-formula> <label/> <tex-math id="FE1"> \begin{document}$ u_t +uu_x +u_{xxx} = 0, \quad \left. u \right |_{t 0} u_{0} $\end{document} </tex-math></disp-formula...

In this paper, we apply the Exp-function method to Rosenau-Kawahara and Rosenau-KdV equations. Rosenau-Kawahara equation is the combination of the Rosenau and standard Kawahara equations and Rosenau-KdV equation is the combination of the Rosenau and standard KdV equations. These equations are nonlinear partial differential equations (NPDE) which play an important role in mathematical physics. E...

An analytic study was conducted on coupled partial differential equations. We formally derived new solitary wave solutions of generalized coupled system of Zakharov-Kuznetsov (ZK) and KdV equations by using modified extended tanh method. The traveling wave solutions for each generalized coupled system of ZK and KdV equations are shown in form of periodic, dark, and bright solitary wave solution...

Darboux transformation is reconsidered for the supersymmetric KdV system. By iterating the Darboux transformation, a supersymmetric extension of the Crum transformation is obtained for the Manin-Radul SKdV equation, in doing so one gets Wronskian superdeterminant representations for the solutions. Particular examples provide us explicit supersymmetric extensions, super solitons, of the standard...

1 KdV equation and Schrödinger operator 2 1.1 Integrability of Korteweg – de Vries equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Elements of scattering theory for the Schrödinger operator . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3 Inverse scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.4 Dressing operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

He’s variational iteration method [1, 2], which is a modified general Lagrange multiplier method [3], has been shown to solve effectively, easily and accurately a large class of nonlinear problems with approximations which converge quickly to accurate solutions. It was successfully applied to autonomous ordinary differential equations [4], nonlinear partial differential equations with variable ...

We study the relevance of various scalar equations, such as inviscid Burgers’, Korteweg-de Vries (KdV), extended KdV, and higher order equations (of Camassa-Holm type), as asymptotic models for the propagation of internal waves in a two-fluid system. These scalar evolution equations may be justified with two approaches. The first method consists in approximating the flow with two decoupled, cou...

We discuss the recent paper by Inan and Ugurlu [Inan I.E., Ugurlu Y., Exp-function method for the exact solutions of fifth order KdV equation and modified Burgers equation, Appl. Math. Comp. 217 (2010) 1294 – 1299]. We demonstrate that all exact solutions of fifth order KdV equation and modified Burgers equation by Inan and Ugurlu are trivial solutions that are reduced to constants. Moreover, w...