Peakompactons: Peaked compact nonlinear waves

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DOI10.1142/S0217979217420085zbMATH Open1364.35306arXiv1609.09542MaRDI QIDQ5268033FDOQ5268033

Tyler Kress, Ivan C. Christov, A. Saxena

Publication date: 14 June 2017

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This article is meant as an accessible introduction to/tutorial on the analytical construction and numerical simulation of a class of non-standard solitary waves termed emph{peakompactons}. These peaked compactly supported waves arise as solutions to nonlinear evolution equations from a hierarchy of nonlinearly dispersive Korteweg--de Vries-type models. Peakompactons, like the now-well-know compactons and unlike the soliton solutions of the Korteweg--de Vries equation, have finite support, {it i.e.}, they are of finite wavelength. However, unlike compactons, peakompactons are also peaked, {it i.e.}, a higher spatial derivative suffers a jump discontinuity at the wave's crest. Here, we construct such solutions exactly by reducing the governing partial differential equation to a nonlinear ordinary differential equation and employing a phase-plane analysis. A simple, but reliable, finite-difference scheme is also designed and tested for the simulation of collisions of peakompactons. In addition to the peakompacton class of solutions, the general physical features of the so-called hierarchy of nonlinearly dispersive Korteweg--de Vries-type models are discussed as well.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09542





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