An initial-value problem for the defocusing modified Korteweg-de Vries equation

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2011.09.039MaRDI QIDQ652466zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. A. Leach

Publication date 14 December 2011

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2011.09.039

zbMATH Keywords

canonical dispersive equationcomplete large structuredefocusing modified equationKorteweg-de Vries equationshock wave solutiontravelling wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotics and summation methods for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M30) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53)

Review text

The Korteweg-de Vries equation describes the unidirectional propagation of long waves in a large class of nonlinear dispersive media. The author of the present paper uses a defocusing modified Korteweg-de Vries equation, which admits a given shock wave solution (or kink solution), up to an arbitrary phase shift by a trigonometric expression. This is a canonical dispersive equation which arises in the study of a number of physical phenomena, particularly in the areas of fluid plasma mechanics with applications that include the two-layer fluid model and a plasma with non-Maxwellian electron distribution. The normalized modified Korteweg-de Vries equation is included in an initial-value problem for which the initial data have a discontinuous step. To obtain the complete large asymptotic structure of the solution to this problem, the method of matched asymptotic coordinate expansions is used. Also, the author includes a brief discussion of the structure of the large-time solution to the above mentioned equation when the initial data are given by the general discontinuous step.

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