WKB analysis of the Schrödinger-KdV system (Q2442913)

The aim of this paper is to study the zero dispersion limit or WKB approximation of solutions to the water wave interaction equations. To justify the semiclassical approximation, the authors reduce the water wave interaction equation into some hyperbolic-dispersive system by using a modified Madelung transform. The reduced system causes loss of derivatives which prevents them to apply the classical energy method to prove the existence of a solution. To overcome this difficulty they introduce a modified energy method and construct the solution to the reduced system.