4 research outputs found
Hidden solitons in the Zabusky-Kruskal experiment: Analysis using the periodic, inverse scattering transform
Recent numerical work on the Zabusky--Kruskal experiment has revealed,
amongst other things, the existence of hidden solitons in the wave profile.
Here, using Osborne's nonlinear Fourier analysis, which is based on the
periodic, inverse scattering transform, the hidden soliton hypothesis is
corroborated, and the \emph{exact} number of solitons, their amplitudes and
their reference level is computed. Other "less nonlinear" oscillation modes,
which are not solitons, are also found to have nontrivial energy contributions
over certain ranges of the dispersion parameter. In addition, the reference
level is found to be a non-monotone function of the dispersion parameter.
Finally, in the case of large dispersion, we show that the one-term nonlinear
Fourier series yields a very accurate approximate solution in terms of Jacobian
elliptic functions.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures (9 images); v2: minor revision, version accepted
for publication in Math. Comput. Simula
Internal solitary waves in the ocean: Analysis using the periodic, inverse scattering transform
The periodic, inverse scattering transform (PIST) is a powerful analytical
tool in the theory of integrable, nonlinear evolution equations. Osborne
pioneered the use of the PIST in the analysis of data form inherently nonlinear
physical processes. In particular, Osborne's so-called nonlinear Fourier
analysis has been successfully used in the study of waves whose dynamics are
(to a good approximation) governed by the Korteweg--de Vries equation. In this
paper, the mathematical details and a new application of the PIST are
discussed. The numerical aspects of and difficulties in obtaining the nonlinear
Fourier (i.e., PIST) spectrum of a physical data set are also addressed. In
particular, an improved bracketing of the "spectral eigenvalues" (i.e., the
+/-1 crossings of the Floquet discriminant) and a new root-finding algorithm
for computing the latter are proposed. Finally, it is shown how the PIST can be
used to gain insightful information about the phenomenon of soliton-induced
acoustic resonances, by computing the nonlinear Fourier spectrum of a data set
from a simulation of internal solitary wave generation and propagation in the
Yellow Sea.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures (6 images); v2: corrected a few minor mistakes
and typos, version accepted for publication in Math. Comput. Simu
Numerical simulation of a solitonic gas in KdV and KdV-BBM equations
19 pages, 11 figures, 47 references. Other author's papers can be found at http://www.denys-dutykh.com/The collective behaviour of soliton ensembles (i.e. the solitonic gas) is studied using the methods of the direct numerical simulation. Traditionally this problem was addressed in the context of integrable models such as the celebrated KdV equation. We extend this analysis to non-integrable KdV-BBM type models. Some high resolution numerical results are presented in both integrable and nonintegrable cases. Moreover, the free surface elevation probability distribution is shown to be quasi-stationary. Finally, we employ the asymptotic methods along with the Monte-Carlo simulations in order to study quantitatively the dependence of some important statistical characteristics (such as the kurtosis and skewness) on the Stokes-Ursell number (which measures the relative importance of nonlinear effects compared to the dispersion) and also on the magnitude of the BBM term
Geometric numerical schemes for the KdV equation
Geometric discretizations that preserve certain Hamiltonian structures at the
discrete level has been proven to enhance the accuracy of numerical schemes. In
particular, numerous symplectic and multi-symplectic schemes have been proposed
to solve numerically the celebrated Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. In this
work, we show that geometrical schemes are as much robust and accurate as
Fourier-type pseudo-spectral methods for computing the long-time KdV dynamics,
and thus more suitable to model complex nonlinear wave phenomena.Comment: 22 pages, 14 figures, 74 references. Other author's papers can be
downloaded at http://www.lama.univ-savoie.fr/~dutykh