Published November 27, 2009
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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/10.1088/1751-8113/42/47/475002Additional 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