On the generation of dispersive shock waves

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2016.04.011zbMATH Open1415.35046arXiv1510.03686OpenAlexW2340788031MaRDI QIDQ2000226FDOQ2000226

Peter D. Miller

Publication date: 28 June 2019

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

Abstract: We review various methods for the analysis of initial-value problems for integrable dispersive equations in the weak-dispersion or semiclassical regime. Some methods are sufficiently powerful to rigorously explain the generation of modulated wavetrains, so-called dispersive shock waves, as the result of shock formation in a limiting dispersionless system. They also provide a detailed description of the solution near caustic curves that delimit dispersive shock waves, revealing fascinating universal wave patterns.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03686

zbMATH Keywords

universalitysemiclassical limitLax-Levermore theoryDeift-Zhou steepest descent methodsmall-dispersion limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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