The basic theory of internal solitary waves is reviewed, with the main emphasis on applications to the many observations of such waves in shallow coastal seas, fjords, lakes and in the atmospheric boundary layer. Commencing with the equations of motion for an inviscid, incompressible density-stratified fluid, we describe asymptotic reductions to model long-wave equations, including the well-kno...

For the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, the Korteweg-de Vries equation, and the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation, periodic exact solutions are constructed from their stationary periodic solutions, by means of the Bäcklund transformation. These periodic solutions were not written down explicitly before to our knowledge. Their asymptotic behavior when t-->-infinity is different from that when ...

We show that the smooth traveling waves of the Camassa-Holm equation naturally correspond to traveling waves of the Korteweg-de Vries equation.

In this paper we present a vectorial Darboux transformation, in terms of ordinary determinants, for the supersymmetric extension of the Korteweg-de Vries equation proposed by Manin and Radul. It is shown how this transformation reduces to the Korteweg-de Vries equation. Soliton type solutions are constructed by dressing the vacuum and we present some relevant plots. On leave of absence from Bei...

We consider the (KdV)/(KP-I) asymptotic regime for the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with a general nonlinearity. In a previous work, we have proved the convergence to the Korteweg-de Vries equation (in dimension 1) and to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation (in higher dimensions) by a compactness argument. We propose a weakly transverse Boussinesq type system formally equivalent to the (KdV)/...

In recent publications [Chaos, Solitons Fractals 12 (2001) 2283; Int. J. Appl. Math. 3 (4) (2000) 361], we have dealt with the numerical solutions of the Korteweg–De-Vries (KDV) and modified Korteweg–De-Vries (MKDV) equations. We extend this study to a more general nonlinear equation, which is the general Korteweg–De-Vries (GKDV) equation, in which the previous studies is a special case of it. ...

The behavior of linear and nonlinear dust acoustic waves (DAWs) in an unmagnetized plasma including inertialess electrons and positrons, ions, and mobile positive/negative dust grains are studied. Reductive perturbation method is employed for small and finite amplitude DAWs. To investigate the solitary waves, the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation is derived and the solution is presented. B...

where μ, ν are positive constants. This equation, in the case μ = 0, was derived independently by Sivashinsky [1] and Kuramoto [2] with the purpose to model amplitude and phase expansion of pattern formations in different physical situations, for example, in the theory of a flame propagation in turbulent flows of gaseous combustible mixtures, see Sivashinsky [1], and in the theory of turbulence...

We propose a numerical method for finding solitary wave solutions of generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations by solving the nonlinear eigenvalue problem on an unbounded domain. The artificial boundary conditions are obtained to make the domain finite. We specially discuss the soliton solutions of the K(m, n) equation and KdV-K(m, n) equation. Furthermore for the mixed models of linear and nonli...

We discuss several PT -symmetric deformations of superderivatives. Based on these various possibilities, we propose new families of complex PT -symmetric deformations of the supersymmetric Korteweg-de Vries equation. Some of these new models are mere fermionic extensions of the former in the sense that they are formulated in terms of superspace valued superfields containing bosonic and fermioni...