Numerical solution of the small dispersion limit of Korteweg—de Vries and Whitham equations

DOI10.1002/cpa.20183zbMath1139.65069arXivmath-ph/0511011OpenAlexW1987986328WikidataQ126264897 ScholiaQ126264897MaRDI QIDQ5434614

Christian Klein, Tamara Grava

Publication date: 7 January 2008

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0511011

zbMATH Keywords

periodic boundary conditionsoscillationsnumerical solutionWhitham equationsKorteweg-de Vries (KdV) equationHopf equationasymptotic formulaesmall dispersionLax-Levermore theoryWhitham zone

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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