Published November 27, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

A numerical study of the diverging probability density function of flat-top solitons in an extended Korteweg-de Vries equation

Creators

  • 1. Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275 (United States)

Description

We consider an extended Korteweg-de Vries (eKdV) equation, the usual Korteweg-de Vries equation with inclusion of an additional cubic nonlinearity. We investigate the statistical behavior of flat-top solitary waves described by an eKdV equation in the presence of weak dissipative disorder in the linear growth/damping term. With the weak disorder in the system, the amplitude of solitary wave randomly fluctuates during evolution. We demonstrate numerically that the probability density function of a solitary wave parameter κ which characterizes the soliton amplitude exhibits loglognormal divergence near the maximum possible κ value.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/42/47/475002

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/42/47/475002;
PII
S1751-8113(09)28291-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical (Online)
Journal Volume
42
Journal Issue
47
Journal Page Range
[7 p.]
ISSN
1751-8121

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41054113
Subject category
S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING;
Descriptors DEI
KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION; MATHEMATICAL EVOLUTION; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; SOLITONS
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUASI PARTICLES