Dispersive shock waves and modulation theory

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2016.04.006zbMATH Open1415.76001arXiv1602.06163OpenAlexW2278222950MaRDI QIDQ2000225FDOQ2000225

M. A. Hoefer, G. A. El

Publication date: 28 June 2019

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There is growing physical and mathematical interest in the hydrodynamics of dissipationless/dispersive media. Since G.~B.~Whitham's seminal publication fifty years ago that ushered in the mathematical study of dispersive hydrodynamics, there has been a significant body of work in this area. However, there has been no comprehensive survey of the field of dispersive hydrodynamics. Utilizing Whitham's averaging theory as the primary mathematical tool, we review the rich mathematical developments over the past fifty years with an emphasis on physical applications. The fundamental, large scale, coherent excitation in dispersive hydrodynamic systems is an expanding, oscillatory dispersive shock wave or DSW. Both the macroscopic and microscopic properties of DSWs are analyzed in detail within the context of the universal, integrable, and foundational models for uni-directional (Korteweg-de Vries equation) and bi-directional (Nonlinear Schr"{o}dinger equation) dispersive hydrodynamics. A DSW fitting procedure that does not rely upon integrable structure yet reveals important macroscopic DSW properties is described. DSW theory is then applied to a number of physical applications: superfluids, nonlinear optics, geophysics, and fluid dynamics. Finally, we survey some of the more recent developments including non-classical DSWs, DSW interactions, DSWs in perturbed and inhomogeneous environments, and two-dimensional, oblique DSWs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.06163

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zbMATH Keywords

Korteweg-de Vries equation[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=nonlinear+Schr%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDdinger+equation&go=Go nonlinear Schr��dinger equation]Whitham theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations (35-02) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-02) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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