Numerical study of a multiscale expansion of the Korteweg–de Vries equation and Painlevé-II equation

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2007.0249zbMATH Open1132.35454OpenAlexW3098871862MaRDI QIDQ5450139FDOQ5450139

Authors Tamara Grava, C. Klein

Publication date 19 March 2008

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0638

zbMATH Keywords

dispersive equationKorteweg-de Vries equationPainlevé equationdouble scaling expansionsWhitham oscillatory zone

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

Abstract: The Cauchy problem for the Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation with small dispersion of order $e^2$, $ell1$, is characterized by the appearance of a zone of rapid modulated oscillations. These oscillations are approximately described by the elliptic solution of KdV where the amplitude, wave-number and frequency are not constant but evolve according to the Whitham equations. Whereas the difference between the KdV and the asymptotic solution decreases as $epsilon$ in the interior of the Whitham oscillatory zone, it is known to be only of order $epsilo{n}^{1/3}$ near the leading edge of this zone. To obtain a more accurate description near the leading edge of the oscillatory zone we present a multiscale expansion of the solution of KdV in terms of the Hastings-McLeod solution of the Painlev'e-II equation. We show numerically that the resulting multiscale solution approximates the KdV solution, in the small dispersion limit, to the order $epsilo{n}^{2/3}$.

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