On the Whitham Equations for the Defocusing Complex Modified KdV Equation

DOI10.1137/070705131MaRDI QIDQ3398268zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Virgil U. Pierce, Yuji Kodama, Fei-Ran Tian

Publication date 28 September 2009

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2632

zbMATH Keywords

dispersive shocksnon-strictly hyperbolic equationsWhitham equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

Abstract: We study the Whitham equations for the defocusing complex modified KdV (mKdV) equation. These Whitham equations are quasilinear hyperbolic equations and they describe the averaged dynamics of the rapid oscillations which appear in the solution of the mKdV equation when the dispersive parameter is small. The oscillations are referred to as dispersive shocks. The Whitham equations for the mKdV equation are neither strictly hyperbolic nor genuinely nonlinear. We are interested in the solutions of the Whitham equations when the initial values are given by a step function. We also compare the results with those of the defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation. For the NLS equation, the Whitham equations are strictly hyperbolic and genuinely nonlinear. We show that the weak hyperbolicity of the mKdV-Whitham equations is responsible for an additional structure in the dispersive shocks which has not been found in the NLS case.

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