Transverse stability of periodic traveling waves in Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations: a numerical study

DOI10.1090/CONM/581/11493zbMATH Open1317.35221arXiv1108.3363OpenAlexW1808489978MaRDI QIDQ5265725FDOQ5265725

C. Klein, Christof Sparber

Publication date: 29 July 2015

Published in: Recent Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We numerically investigate transverse stability and instability of so-called cnoidal waves, i.e., periodic traveling wave solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation, under the time-evolution of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation. In particular, we find that in KP-I small amplitude cnoidal waves are stable (at least for spatially localized perturbations) and only become unstable above a certain threshold. In contrast to that, KP-II is found to be stable for all amplitudes, or, equivalently, wave speeds. This is in accordance with recent analytical results for solitary waves given in cite{RT1, RT2}.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3363

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zbMATH Keywords

Korteweg-de Vries equationinstabilitytraveling wave solutionsKadomtsev-Petviashvili equationcnoidal wavestransverse stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Soliton solutions (35C08) Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53)

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