98 research outputs found
Patterns on liquid surfaces: cnoidal waves, compactons and scaling
Localized patterns and nonlinear oscillation formation on the bounded free
surface of an ideal incompressible liquid are analytically investigated .
Cnoidal modes, solitons and compactons, as traveling non-axially symmetric
shapes are discused. A finite-difference differential generalized Korteweg-de
Vries equation is shown to describe the three-dimensional motion of the fluid
surface and the limit of long and shallow channels one reobtains the well known
KdV equation. A tentative expansion formula for the representation of the
general solution of a nonlinear equation, for given initial condition is
introduced on a graphical-algebraic basis. The model is useful in multilayer
fluid dynamics, cluster formation, and nuclear physics since, up to an overall
scale, these systems display liquid free surface behavior.Comment: 14 pages RevTex, 5 figures in p
Similarity Analysis of Nonlinear Equations and Bases of Finite Wavelength Solitons
We introduce a generalized similarity analysis which grants a qualitative
description of the localised solutions of any nonlinear differential equation.
This procedure provides relations between amplitude, width, and velocity of the
solutions, and it is shown to be useful in analysing nonlinear structures like
solitons, dublets, triplets, compact supported solitons and other patterns. We
also introduce kink-antikink compact solutions for a nonlinear-nonlinear
dispersion equation, and we construct a basis of finite wavelength functions
having self-similar properties.Comment: 18 pages Latex, 6 figures ep
Scaling analyses based on wavelet transforms for the Talbot effect
The fractal properties of the transverse Talbot images are analysed with two
well-known scaling methods, the wavelet transform modulus maxima (WTMM) and the
wavelet transform multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (WT-MFDFA). We
use the widths of the singularity spectra, Delta alpha=alpha_H-alpha_min, as a
characteristic feature of these Talbot images. The tau scaling exponents of the
q moments are linear in q within the two methods, which proves the
monofractality of the transverse diffractive paraxial field in the case of
these imagesComment: 9 pages, 6 figures, version accepted at Physica
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