Solitary autowaves in magnetic flux tubes

The weakly nonlinear dynamics of surface magnetoacoustic waves in magnetic flux tubes in the presence of the effects of dissipation and active non-adiabaticity is considered. The wave is described either by the extended Benjamin-Ono equation (slab geometry) or by the extended Leibovich-Roberts equation (cylindrical geometry). For the slab geometry, it is shown that solitary waves with arbitrary initial parameters evolve to solitons with specific amplitude, length and speed defined by the physical parameters of the magnetic slab.     

Asymptotic theory of plane soliton self-focusing in two-dimensional wave media

An asymptotic method is developed to describe a long-term evolution of unstable quasi-plane solitary waves in the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili model for two-dimensional wave media with positive dispersion. An approximate equation is derived for the parameters of soliton transversal modulation and a general solution of this equation is found in an explicit form. It is shown that the development of periodic soliton modulation, in an unstable region, leads to saturation and formation of a two-dimensional stationary wave. This process is accompanied by the radiation of a small-amplitude plane soliton. In a stable region, an amplitude of the modulation is permanently decreasing due to radiation of quasi-harmonic wave packets. The multiperiodic regime of plane soliton self-focusing is also investigated.     

Stability of solitary waves in nonlinear composite media

The system of equations for planar waves in elastic composite media in the presence of anisotropy is considered. In anisotropic case two two-parametric families of solitary waves are found in an explicit form. In case of the absence of anisotropy these two families coalesce into the unique three parametric family. The solitary wave solutions are found to be orbitally stable in a certain range of their phase speeds (range of stability) both in an anisotropic as well as in an isotropic materials. It is also shown that the initial value problem for the governing equations is locally well posed which is needed to prove the stability result. The local well-posedness of the initial value problem along with stability of solitary waves implies global existence result provided the initial data lie in a neighbourhood of a stable solitary wave. This complements the previous results of blow-up for this type of equations.     

具微结构地壳中非线性地震波的演化

非线性地震波在地壳中传播及演化规律的研究具有重要实际意义.利用有限差分方法, 对非线性地震纵波和横波在具微结构地壳中的演化过程进行了详细的数值模拟.结果表明,非线性地震纵波和横波在具微结构地壳中可以逐渐演化成一个孤立波或两个孤立波或孤立波列或消失.地震波的初始幅度、频散系数和体力因子对演化过程和结果都有重要影响.研究结果揭示了非线性地震波在一种微结构地壳中的演化规律,这有助于在理论上解释一些特殊地震波现象.     

Quantum ion-acoustic solitary waves in weak relativistic plasma

Small amplitude quantum ion-acoustic solitary waves are studied in an unmagnetized two- species relativistic quantum plasma system, comprised of electrons and ions. The one-dimensional quantum hydrodynamic model (QHD) is used to obtain a deformed Korteweg–de Vries (dKdV) equation by reductive perturbation method. A linear dispersion relation is also obtained taking into account the relativistic effect. The properties of quantum ion-acoustic solitary waves, obtained from the deformed KdV equation, are studied taking into account the quantum mechanical effects in the weak relativistic limit. It is found that relativistic effects significantly modify the properties of quantum ion-acoustic waves. Also the effect of the quantum parameter H on the nature of solitary wave solutions is studied in some detail.     

On solutions of a Boussinesq-type equation with displacement-dependent nonlinearities: the case of biomembranes

Boussinesq-type wave equations involve nonlinearities and dispersion. In this paper a Boussinesq-type equation with displacement-dependent nonlinearities is presented. Such a model was proposed by Heimburg and Jackson for describing longitudinal waves in biomembranes and later improved by Engelbrecht, Tamm and Peets taking into account the microinertia of a biomembrane. The steady solution in the form of a solitary wave is derived and the influence of nonlinear and dispersive terms over a large range of possible sets of coefficients demonstrated. The solutions emerging from arbitrary initial inputs are found using the numerical simulation. The properties of emerging trains of solitary waves are analysed. Finally, the interaction of solitary waves which satisfy the governing equation is studied. The interaction process is not fully elastic and after several interactions radiation effects may be significant. This means that for the present case the solitary waves are not solitons in the strict mathematical sense. However, like in other cases known in solid mechanics, such solutions may be conditionally called solitons.     

等离子体中非线性朗谬尔波的哈密顿描述

研究了在双离子（H^ ,O^ )成份等离子体中的非线性朗谬尔波的特性,从流体方程出发,考虑低频离子运动的完全非线性和双极势的色散,得到了描述高频电场缓变振幅与低频势扰动的耦合方程组。利用哈密顿方法,在小振幅情况下,对方程组解耦合,利用Sagdeev势方法,对孤立波的性状进行了讨论,结果表明,双离子成份等离子体中双极势的孤立子的幅度相对电子,离子等离子体的双极势孤立子的幅度要大,而相应的高频电场强度的幅度相对要小,相应的孤立子的速度传播区也较小。     

Propagation dynamics of relativistic electromagnetic solitary wave as well as modulational instability in plasmas

By one-dimensional particle-in-cell(PIC) simulations, the propagation and stability of relativistic electromagnetic(EM) solitary waves as well as modulational instability of plane EM waves are studied in uniform cold electron-ion plasmas.The investigation not only confirms the solitary wave motion characteristics and modulational instability theory, but more importantly, gives the following findings. For a simulation with the plasma density 10²³ m^-3 and the dimensionless vector potential amplitude 0.18, it is found that the EM solitary wave can stably propagate when the carrier wave frequency is smaller than 3.83 times of the plasma frequency. While for the carrier wave frequency larger than that, it can excite a very weak Langmuir oscillation, which is an order of magnitude smaller than the transverse electron momentum and may in turn modulate the EM solitary wave and cause the modulational instability, so that the solitary wave begins to deform after a long enough distance propagation. The stable propagation distance before an obvious observation of instability increases(decreases) with the increase of the carrier wave frequency(vector potential amplitude). The study on the plane EM wave shows that a modulational instability may occur and its wavenumber is approximately equal to the modulational wavenumber by Langmuir oscillation and is independent of the carrier wave frequency and the vector potential amplitude.This reveals the role of the Langmuir oscillation excitation in the inducement of modulational instability and also proves the modulational instability of EM solitary wave.     

Threshold fields for stimulated Brillouin scattering in spatially limited plasma

Brillouin scattering in an infinite medium is anisotropic, in this case the threshold of absolute instability is caused by attenuation of scattered waves. If the collision attenuation mechanism prevails, the minimum threshold value is observed during backward scattering. For a scattering region limited in the longitudinal direction (parallel to the direction of pumping wave propagation), the backward scattering threshold will be greater than for an infinite medium due to convective loss associated with energy removal by scattered waves. In this paper, the scattering of a wide wave beam in plasma is considered, whose dimension in the transverse direction to the pumping wave propagation substantially exceeds the dimension in the longitudinal direction. It was revealed that in this case, during angle scattering the instability threshold can be less than the threshold for backward scattering due to the increased time of radiation removal from the interaction region. This effect was not taken into account previously. In turn, the decrease of the threshold leads to increasing the radiation loss, which is important in plasma heating problems. The results can also be used for plasma diagnostics.     

Large amplitude solitary waves in a multicomponent plasma with negative ions

When the concentration of negative ions is larger than a critical value, a small compressive pulse evolves into a subionic wave train and a large pulse develops into a solitary wave. The threshold amplitude and velocity of the solitary waves are measured and compared with predictions using the pseudopotential method.     

Turbulence of near-inertial waves in the continuously stratified fluid

By using the normal form of continuously stratified “primitive” equations of geophysical fluid dynamics with density (in the ocean), or potential temperature (in the atmosphere) playing the role of the vertical coordinate, we decouple vortex and wave motions in the system, introduce normal variables, and derive the effective Hamiltonian for waves with frequencies close to the inertial frequency (near-inertial waves, NIW). We then apply the weak turbulence approach to the random-phase ensembles of these waves. We show how the anisotropic scale-invariance of NIW may be exploited in order to obtain the stationary power-law spectra. The non-decay anisotropic scale-invariant dispersion laws of the NIW-type were not studied previously in the weak-turbulence literature.     

内孤立波沿缓坡地形传播特性的实验研究

以南中国海东北部海域底部缓坡地形为背景, 在大型重力式分层流水槽中模拟了下凹型内孤立波沿缓坡地形传播过程中的浅化、破碎、分裂等现象, 利用分层染色标识方法和多点组合探头阵列技术对内孤立波沿缓坡地形演化特征进行了定性分析和定量测量. 实验表明: 浅化效应使内孤立波传播速度减小, 对大振幅内孤立波具有抑制作用, 对小振幅波具有放大效应; 浅化效应可导致内孤立波的剪切失稳及破碎, 还可导致大振幅内孤立波的分裂. 利用Miles稳定性理论可定性描述内孤立波沿缓坡地形传播时发生不稳定状态的位置, 实验结果与理论分析相符合. 关键词： 分层流 缓坡地形 内孤立波 不稳定性     

Dynamics of antiferromagnetic vortices in yttrium orthoferrite domain walls

The total velocity of solitary flexural waves nonlinearly increases with an increase in the velocity of domain walls and becomes saturated at a level of 20 km s^?1; the smaller the wave amplitude, the more rapidly saturation occurs. Counter collisions of solitary flexural waves lead to the formation of a single wave with a difference amplitude moving in the same direction as the wave with a larger amplitude. The experimental results confirm that solitary flexural waves accompany antiferromagnetic vortices at domain walls in yttrium orthoferrite.     

Modulation instability in systems of coupled waves with nonlinearity dispersion

Conditions for the appearance of modulation instability of an optical wave packet formed by one or two unidirectional strongly interacting waves are studied taking into account the influence of the temporal dispersion of a nonlinear response of the medium on this process. The regions of values of the frequency, input radiation intensity, and dispersion parameters in which the wave perturbations are increased are found. It is shown that the initial conditions for excitation of optical fibers of this type significantly affect the dynamics of the modulation instability.     

Solitary waves in a nonlinear oppositely directed coupler

The propagation of pulses in the system of two tunnel-coupled optical waveguides from optically nonlinear materials one of which has a negative refractive index, while the other one, positive, is investigated theoretically. The propagation of nonlinear waves in this structure is studied based on the model of coupled modes. For linear waves, this pair of coupled waveguides behaves as a mirror resulting in the change of direction of the energy flow upon penetration of radiation from one waveguide to the other. The solutions to the system of nonlinear equations describing the stationary propagation of the solitary wave, the gap soliton, in a particular direction are found. This soliton is formed by the coupled pair of wave packets each localized in the corresponding waveguide.     

Ion-acoustic waves at the night side of Titan's ionosphere: higher-order approximation

Nonlinear solitary waves are investigated for a plasma system at the night side of Titan's ionosphere. The plasma model consists of three positive ions, namely C_2H_5~+, HCNH~+, and C_3H_5~+, as well as Maxwellian electrons. The basic set of fluid equations is reduced to a Korteweg de-Vries(KdV) equation and linear inhomogeneous higher order KdV(LIHO-KdV) equation.The solitary wave solutions of both equations are obtained using a renormalization method. The solitary waves' existence region and the wave profile are investigated, and their dependences on the plasma parameters at the night side of Titan's ionosphere are examined. The solitary waves' phase velocities are subsonic or supersonic, and the propagating pulses are usually positive. The effect of higher-order corrections on the perturbation theory is investigated. It is found that the higher-order contribution makes the amplitude slightly taller, which is suitable for describing the solitary waves when the amplitude augments.     

Extended Schwinger-Boson theory of the two-dimensional spin-1/2 anisotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnets

The properties of the possible solitary electromagnetic waves, propagating in two-dimensional SIS Josephson junction without dissipative losses are investigated on the basis of the local theory of the junction. A classification of the waves in the junction with respect to the Swihart velocity is made. It is shown that allowed and forbidden areas for the wave numbers, wave frequency and wave amplitude exist. The cut-off frequency for the solitary waves which velocity is greater than the Swihart velocity can be smaller than the Josephson plasma frequency and moreover these waves can propagate only in a junction that is large in the direction perpendicular to the propagation direction. On the contrary the solitary waves which velocity is smaller than the Swihart velocity request junction size in the above direction to be smaller than a critical one. The investigated two-dimensional solitary waves can be connected with one or two quanta of the magnetic flux.     

Interfacial waves with free-surface boundary conditions: an approach via a model equation

In a two-fluid system where the lower fluid is bounded below by a rigid bottom and the upper fluid is bounded above by a free surface, two kinds of solitary waves can propagate along the interface and the free surface: classical solitary waves characterized by a solitary pulse or generalized solitary waves with nondecaying oscillations in their tails in addition to the solitary pulse. The classical solitary waves move faster than the generalized solitary waves. The origin of the nonlocal solitary waves can be understood from a physical point of view. The dispersion relation for the above system shows that short waves can propagate at the same speed as a “slow” solitary wave. The interaction between the solitary wave and the short waves creates a nonlocal solitary wave. In this paper, the interfacial-wave problem is reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations by using a classical perturbation method, which takes into consideration the possible resonance between short waves and “slow” solitary waves. In the past, classical Korteweg–de Vries type models have been derived but cannot deal with the resonance. All solutions of the new system of model equations, including classical as well as generalized solitary waves, are constructed. The domain of validity of the model is discussed as well. It is also shown that fronts connecting two conjugate states cannot occur for “fast” waves. For “slow” waves, fronts exist but they have ripples in their tails.     

Application of higher-order KdV——mKdV model with higher-degree nonlinear terms to gravity waves in atmosphere

Higher-order Korteweg-de Vries (KdV)-modified KdV (mKdV) equations with a higher-degree of nonlinear terms are derived from a simple incompressible non-hydrostatic Boussinesq equation set in atmosphere and are used to investigate gravity waves in atmosphere. By taking advantage of the auxiliary nonlinear ordinary differential equation, periodic wave and solitary wave solutions of the fifth-order KdV--mKdV models with higher-degree nonlinear terms are obtained under some constraint conditions. The analysis shows that the propagation and the periodic structures of gravity waves depend on the properties of the slope of line of constant phase and atmospheric stability. The Jacobi elliptic function wave and solitary wave solutions with slowly varying amplitude are transformed into triangular waves with the abruptly varying amplitude and breaking gravity waves under the effect of atmospheric instability.     

Generation of soliton oscillations in nonlinear quadratic materials

We show analytically and numerically that the generation of long-lasting soliton oscillations in resonant chi(2) optical materials possesses a threshold for the amplitude of a fundamental wave. The persistent oscillations of solitary waves reported by Etrich et al. [Phys. Rev. E 54, 4321 (1996)] are found to appear for finite values of the wave amplitude.