The interaction of long and short waves in dispersive media

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/41/415501zbMATH Open1349.76030arXiv1604.04317OpenAlexW2340269627MaRDI QIDQ2832467FDOQ2832467

Nghiem V. Nguyen, Benjamin L. Segal, Bernard Deconinck

Publication date: 11 November 2016

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The KdV equation models the propagation of long waves in dispersive media, while the NLS equation models the dynamics of narrow-bandwidth wave packets consisting of short dispersive waves. A system that couples the two equations to model the interaction of long and short waves seems attractive and such a system has been studied over the last decades. We evaluate the validity of this system, discussing two main problems. First, only the system coupling the linear Schr"odinger equation with KdV has been derived in the literature. Second, the time variables appearing in the equations are of a different order. It appears that in the manuscripts that study the coupled NLS-KdV system, an assumption has been made that the coupled system can be derived, justifying its mathematical study. In fact, this is true even for the papers where the asymptotic derivation with the problems described above is presented. In addition to discussing these inconsistencies, we present some alternative systems describing the interaction of long and short waves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04317

zbMATH Keywords

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

Cited In (8)

• Well-posedness and lower bounds of the growth of weighted norms for the Schrödinger-Korteweg-de Vries interactions on the half-line
• Well-posedness for multicomponent Schrödinger-gKdV systems and stability of solitary waves with prescribed mass
• Existence of generalized solitary wave solutions of the coupled KdV-CKdV system
• The smooth solutions of a class of coupled KdV equations
• Some models for the interaction of long and short waves in dispersive media. I: Derivation
• The initial-boundary value problem for the Schrödinger–Korteweg–de Vries system on the half-line
• On the nonintegrability of equations for long- and short-wave interactions
• The Schrödinger-Korteweg-de Vries system on the half-line

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