On the Elliptic-Hyperbolic Transition in Whitham Modulation Theory

DOI10.1137/17M1111437zbMATH Open1375.74047MaRDI QIDQ4594899FDOQ4594899

Authors: Daniel J. Ratliff, Thomas J. Bridges 

Publication date: 27 November 2017

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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• Validity of the hyperbolic Whitham modulation equations in Sobolev spaces
• Whitham modulation theory for the Ostrovsky equation
• Whitham modulation theory for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation
• Rigorous justification of the Whitham modulation equations for equations of Whitham type
• Whitham modulation theory for generalized Whitham equations and a general criterion for modulational instability
• Whitham modulation theory for the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in two and three spatial dimensions
• Whitham modulation theory for (2  +  1)-dimensional equations of Kadomtsev–Petviashvili type
• Rigorous justification of the Whitham modulation theory for equations of NLS type
• Nonlinear theory for coalescing characteristics in multiphase Whitham modulation theory
• Saturation of modulational instability via complex Whitham deformations: Nonlinear Schrödinger equation

zbMATH Keywords

modulationtraveling wavesnonlinear wavesLagrangianmultisymplectic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Nonlinear waves in solid mechanics (74J30) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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