On the Whitham system for the radial nonlinear Schrödinger equation

DOI10.1111/SAPM.12254zbMATH Open1418.35332arXiv1807.06723OpenAlexW2962774721MaRDI QIDQ5227215FDOQ5227215

Authors: Mark J. Ablowitz, Igor Rumanov, Justin T. Cole 

Publication date: 25 July 2019

Published in: Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) of the defocusing radial nonlinear Schr"odinger (rNLS) equation in two spatial dimensions are studied. This equation arises naturally in Bose-Einstein condensates, water waves and nonlinear optics. A unified nonlinear WKB approach, equally applicable to integrable or nonintegrable partial differential equations, is used to find the rNLS Whitham modulation equation system in both physical and hydrodynamic type variables. The description of DSWs obtained via Whitham theory is compared with direct rNLS numerics; the results demonstrate very good quantitative agreement. On the other hand, as expected, comparison with the corresponding DSW solutions of the one-dimensional NLS equation exhibits significant qualitative and quantitative differences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06723

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear wavesnonlinear opticswater waves and fluid dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Measures on Boolean rings, measure algebras (28A60)

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