NLS approximation for wavepackets in periodic cubically nonlinear wave problems in R^d

DOI10.1080/00036811.2018.1544620MaRDI QIDQ5147277zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tomáš Dohnal, Daniel Rudolf

Publication date 3 February 2021

Published in Applicable Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07077

zbMATH Keywords

approximation errorBloch wavesGross-PitaevskiiNLS approximationnonlinear wave equationperiodic mediasolitary wavewavepackets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Second-order semilinear hyperbolic equations (35L71) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L06) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Numerical methods for eigenvalue problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N25) Numerical methods for discrete and fast Fourier transforms (65T50)

Abstract: The dynamics of single carrier wavepackets in nonlinear wave problems over periodic structures can be often formally approximated by the constant coefficient nonlinear Schr"odinger equation (NLS) as an effective model for the wavepacket envelope. We provide a detailed proof of this approximation result for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GP) and a semilinear wave equation, both with periodic coefficients in $mathbbNid$ spatial dimensions and with cubic nonlinearities. The proof is carried out in Bloch expansion variables with estimates in an $L^1$-type norm, which translates to an estimate of the supremum norm of the error. The regularity required from the periodic coefficients in order to ensure a small residual and a small error is discussed. We also present a numerical example in two spatial dimensions confirming the approximation result and presenting an approximate traveling solitary wave in the GP with periodic coefficients.

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