Dynamics and Stability of a Weak Detonation Wave

One dimensional weak detonation waves of a basic reactive shock wave model are proved to be nonlinearly stable, i.e. initially perturbed waves tend asymptotically to translated weak detonation waves. This model system was derived as the low Mach number limit of the one component reactive Navier-Stokes equations by Majda and Roytburd [SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput. 43, 1086–1118 (1983)], and its weak detonation waves have been numerically observed as stable. The analysis shows in particular the key role of the new nonlinear dynamics of the position of the shock wave, The shock translation solves a nonlinear integral equation, obtained by Green's function techniques, and its solution is estimated by observing that the kernel can be split into a dominating convolution operator and a remainder. The inverse operator of the convolution and detailed properties of the traveling wave reduce, by monotonicity, the remainder to a small L ₁ perturbation. Received: 17 August 1998 / Accepted: 13 November 1998     

Lower Bounds for an Integral Involving Fractional Laplacians and the Generalized Navier-Stokes Equations in Besov Spaces

When estimating solutions of dissipative partial differential equations in L^p-related spaces, we often need lower bounds for an integral involving the dissipative term. If the dissipative term is given by the usual Laplacian −Δ, lower bounds can be derived through integration by parts and embedding inequalities. However, when the Laplacian is replaced by the fractional Laplacian (−Δ)^α, the approach of integration by parts no longer applies. In this paper, we obtain lower bounds for the integral involving (−Δ)^α by combining pointwise inequalities for (−Δ)^α with Bernstein's inequalities for fractional derivatives. As an application of these lower bounds, we establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the generalized Navier-Stokes equations in Besov spaces. The generalized Navier-Stokes equations are the equations resulting from replacing −Δ in the Navier-Stokes equations by (−Δ)^α.     

The energy spectrum of fully developed turbulence generated by random stirring

For fully developed turbulence in an incompressible fluid described by the Navier-Stokes equations with Gaussian random forces the relation between the energy spectrum and the stirring mechanism is investigated within a variational approach. Therein, the effect of nonlinear mode coupling is approximated by a wave number dependent eddy viscosity determined via a nonlinear integral equation for the energy spectrum. For various stirring spectra analytic approximations are compared with the solution obtained numerically with a cutoff in the integral kernel which ensures in eddy relaxing processes that the stirring forces exert strain only on scales larger than the eddy size. The results are compared with renormalization group calculations and closure approximations. Random forces injecting energy at a ratek ^–1 into the wave number banddk aroundk lead to a Kolmogorov distribution of energy. The spectrum of small-scale velocity fluctuations is shown to be universal in the sense that it remains unchanged under variations of the long wavelength stirring spectra.     

Towards a Unified Method for Exact Solutions of Evolution Equations. An Application to Reaction Diffusion Equations with Finite Memory Transport

We present a brief report on the different methods for finding exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. Explicit exact traveling wave solutions are the most amenable besides implicit and parametric ones. It is shown that most of methods that exist in the literature are equivalent to the “generalized mapping method” that unifies them. By using this method a class of formal exact solutions for reaction diffusion equations with finite memory transport is obtained. Attention is focused to the finite-memory-transport-Fisher and Nagumo equations.     

Surface optical waves at the boundary with a nonlinear Kerr medium

A rigorous solution consistent with a plane wave approximation is given to the boundary problem for Maxwell’s equations for surface optical waves at the boundary with a nonlinear Kerr medium. Exact formulas for the flux intensity (J ₀) and energy density (W ₀) of these waves are derived depending on the parameters of the adjacent media and the propagation constant (ξ). It is shown that these variables as functions of ξ have minima. Thus, J ₀ and W ₀ increase sharply as the propagation constant deviates from the minimum value ξ_min. Their values are greater, the larger the difference between the dielectric constants of the linear and nonlinear media is. An expression for the propagation velocity of a nonlinear surface wave is also obtained.     

Rogue waves: Classification,measurement and data analysis,and hyperfast numerical modeling

The last twenty years has seen the birth and subsequent evolution of a fundamental new idea in nonlinear wave research: Rogue waves, freak waves or extreme events in the wave field dynamics can often be classified as coherent structure solutions of the requisite nonlinear partial differential wave equations (PDEs). Since a large number of generic nonlinear PDEs occur across many branches of physics, the approach is widely applicable to many fields including the dynamics of ocean surface waves, internal waves, plasma waves, acoustic waves, nonlinear optics, solid state physics, geophysical fluid dynamics and turbulence (vortex dynamics and nonlinear waves), just to name a few. The first goal of this paper is to give a classification scheme for solutions of this type using the inverse scattering transform (IST) with periodic boundary conditions. In this context the methods of algebraic geometry give the solutions of particular PDEs in terms of Riemann theta functions. In the classification scheme the Riemann spectrum fully defines the coherent structure solutions and their mutual nonlinear interactions. I discuss three methods for determining the Riemann spectrum: (1) algebraic-geometric loop integrals, (2) Schottky uniformization and (3) the Nakamura-Boyd approach. I give an overview of several nonlinear wave equations and graph some of their coherent structure solutions using theta functions. The second goal is to discuss how theta functions can be used for developing data analysis (nonlinear Fourier) algorithms; nonlinear filtering techniques allow for the extraction of coherent structures from time series. The third goal is to address hyperfast numerical models of nonlinear wave equations (which are thousands of times faster than traditional spectral methods).     

Doubly Periodic Wave Solutions and Soliton Solutions of Ablowitz–Ladik Lattice System

The general Jacobi elliptic function expansion method is developed and extended to construct doubly periodic wave solutions for discrete nonlinear equations. Applying this method, many exact elliptic function doubly periodic wave solutions are obtained for Ablowitz–Ladik lattice system. When the modulus m→1 or m→0, these solutions degenerate into hyperbolic function solutions and trigonometric function solutions respectively. In long wave limit, solitonic solutions including bright soliton and dark soliton solutions are also obtained.     

Dust-acoustic waves in a self-gravitating complex plasma with trapped electrons and nonisothermal ions

It is shown that the nonlinear equations governing the dynamics of the large amplitude waves in a self-gravitating unmagnetized collisionless dust-electron-ion plasma admit stationary dust-acoustic shock solutions. Owing to the adiabaticity of dust-charge variation, inclusion of self-gravitation, and to the departure from the so-called Botzmannian electrons and ions to the trapped electrons and nonthermal ions, the dynamics of the nonlinear wave is found to be governed by a new energy-like integral equation.     

One-soliton solutions from Laplace’s seed

One-soliton solutions of axially symmetric vacuum Einstein field equations are presented in this paper. Two sets of Laplace’s solutions are used as seed and it is shown that the derived solutions reduce to some already known solutions when the constants are properly adjusted. An analysis of the solutions in terms of the Ernst potential is also presented. It is found that the solutions do not reduce to the Euclidean form at spatial infinity. However, in the static limit, Weyl solutions are obtained for half integral ∂-values.     

Acoustic analog of the Fermi resonance

It is shown that for acoustic waves in crystals nonlinear phenomena of a new type, analogous to some degree to Fermi resonance in molecules, can occur. It is demonstrated on the basis of an analysis of the numerical solution of the equations of motion that for propagation of waves with different polarization and with sound velocities in integral ratio, the energy transfer from one wave to another is of the nature of beats with quite low amplitudes and can become chaotic as the amplitudes increase. Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 69, No. 6, 417–422 (25 March 1999)     

Exact traveling wave solutions of an autonomous system via the enhanced (G′/G)-expansion method

Mathematical modeling of many autonomous physical systems leads to nonlinear evolution equations because most physical systems are inherently nonlinear in nature. The investigation of traveling wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations plays a significant role in the study of nonlinear physical phenomena. In this article, the enhanced (G′/G)-expansion method has been applied for finding the exact traveling wave solutions of longitudinal wave motion equation in a nonlinear magneto-electro-elastic circular rod. Each of the obtained solutions contains an explicit function of the variables in the considered equations. It has been shown that the applied method provides a powerful mathematical tool for solving nonlinear wave equations in mathematical physics and engineering fields.     

Nonlinear noise waves in soft biological tissues

The study of intense waves in soft biological tissues is necessary both for diagnostics and therapeutic aims. Tissue represents an inherited medium with frequency-dependent dissipative properties, in which waves are described by nonlinear integro-differential equations. The equations for such waves are well known. Their group analysis has been performed, and a number of exact solutions have been found. However, statistical problems for nonlinear waves in tissues have hardly been studied. As well, for medical applications, both intense noise waves and waves with fluctuating parameters can be used. In addition, statistical solutions are simpler in structure than regular solutions; they are useful for understanding the physics of processes. Below a general approach is described for solving nonlinear statistical problems applied to the considered mathematical models of biological tissues. We have calculated the dependences of the intensities of the narrowband noise harmonics on distance. For wideband noise, we have calculated the dependence of the spectral integral intensity on distance. In all cases, wave attenuation is determined both by the specific dissipative properties of the tissue and the nonlinearity of the medium.     

A New Approach to Solve Nonlinear Wave Equations

From the nonlinear sine-Gordon equation, new transformations are obtained in this paper, which are applied to propose a new approach to construct exact periodic solutions to nonlinear wave equations. It is shown that more new periodic solutions can be obtained by this new approach, and more shock wave solutions or solitary wave solutions can be got under their limit conditions.     

Multiple (<Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis>′/<Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis>)-expansion method and its applications to nonlinear evolution equations in mathematical physics

In this paper, an extended multiple (G′/G)-expansion method is proposed to seek exact solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. The validity and advantages of the proposed method is illustrated by its applications to the Sharma–Tasso–Olver equation, the sixth-order Ramani equation, the generalized shallow water wave equation, the Caudrey–Dodd–Gibbon–Sawada–Kotera equation, the sixth-order Boussinesq equation and the Hirota–Satsuma equations. As a result, various complexiton solutions consisting of hyperbolic functions, trigonometric functions, rational functions and their mixture with parameters are obtained. When some parameters are taken as special values, the known double solitary-like wave solutions are derived from the double hyperbolic function solution. In addition, this method can also be used to deal with some high-dimensional and variable coefficients’ nonlinear evolution equations.     

Second-order random wave solutions for interfacial internal waves in N-layer density-stratified fluid

This paper studies the random internal wave equations describing the density interface displacements and the velocity potentials of N-layer stratified fluid contained between two rigid walls at the top and bottom. The density interface displacements and the velocity potentials were solved to the second-order by an expansion approach used by Longuet-Higgins （1963） and Dean （1979） in the study of random surface waves and by Song （2004） in the study of second- order random wave solutions for internal waves in a two-layer fluid. The obtained results indicate that the first-order solutions are a linear superposition of many wave components with different amplitudes, wave numbers and frequencies, and that the amplitudes of first-order wave components with the same wave numbers and frequencies between the adjacent density interfaces are modulated by each other. They also show that the second-order solutions consist of two parts： the first one is the first-order solutions, and the second one is the solutions of the second-order asymptotic equations, which describe the second-order nonlinear modification and the second-order wave-wave interactions not only among the wave components on same density interfaces but also among the wave components between the adjacent density interfaces. Both the first-order and second-order solutions depend on the density and depth of each layer. It is also deduced that the results of the present work include those derived by Song （2004） for second-order random wave solutions for internal waves in a two-layer fluid as a particular case.     

Wavy liquid film in the presence of co- or counter-current turbulent gas flow

The wavy downflow of a viscous liquid film in the presence of the turbulent gas flow was analyzed theoretically. Two-dimensional stationary running waves are calculated in a wide range of Reynolds numbers of liquid and gas. Hydrodynamics of liquid is calculated based on complete Navier-Stokes equations. The wave interface surface is considered as a small perturbation and equations in gas are linearized near the main turbulent flow. Different optimal downflow regimes are determined, and the main wave characteristics are compared in detail with and without the co- and counter-current gas flows. It is shown that at high velocities of the co-current gas flow, the calculated waves correspond to ripples observed in experiments.     

Nonlinear resonance of plasma waves in the thermal irregularities of ionospheric plasma

We study the effect of striction plasma density disturbances on the generation intensity of longitudional cold and plasma oscillations due to polarization of the magnetic field-aligned ionospheric plasma irregularities with δN_o<0 by a powerful radio wave. It is assumed that the plasma density level inside the irregularity intersects the upper-hybrid resonance level, in the vicinity of which the cold oscillations excited directly by a powerful radio wave are transformed to shorter-wave plasma oscillations. We consider the short plasma wave limit to reduce the problem to a system of two coupled equations for the cold wave induction and plasma wave electric field. The first equation is supplemented by a local source equal to the integral of the plasma wave electric field in the resonance region. The second equation involves the cold wave induction at the resonance point and describes the electric field of interacting waves in the resonance vicinity. We use simplifications connected with the small absorption of plasma waves propagating inside the irregularity and weak radiation of these waves outside the irregularity. These conditions correspond to the generation of eigenmodes of plasma oscillations trapped in the irregularity. We have obtained a resonance-type nonlinear equation for the electric field intensity (or energy flux) of eigenmode plasma waves with allowance for striction disturbances of the plasma density profile in the resonance region. It is shown that the striction expulsion of plasma is responsible for the occurrence of coefficients describing the change in the intensity of excitation and radiation of plasma waves at the irregularity boundary. Such an expulsion leads to variations of the efficient generation band of plasma eigenmodes with the total phase increment of the wave in the irregularity. It also leads to a change in the phase shift of the plasma wave reflected from the resonance. These coefficients and the nonlinear phase shift are expressed in terms of real wave functions of the nonlinear Airy equation which describes the electric field of the excited waves in the resonance vicinity when the dissipation is absent. Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow region, Russia. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 270–297, March, 1998.     

Similarity Reductions of Barotropic and Quasi-geostrophic Potential Vorticity Equation

The (2 1)-dimensional nonlinear barotropic and quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity equation without forcing and dissipation on a beta-plane channel is investigated by using the classical Lie symmetry approach. Some types of group-invariant wave solutions are expressed by means of the lower-dimensional similarity reduction equations. In addition to the known periodic Rossby wave solutions, some new types of exact solutions such as the ring solitary waves and the breaking soliton type of vorticity solutions with nonlinear and nonconstant shears are also obtained.     

Reflection and refraction of light by a system of interfering atomic states

The boundary problem of nonlinear optics was investigated for a trial wave reflected (refracted) by an excited region of a nonlinear medium considered as a system of multilevel atoms in the spectrum of which there are two closely-spaced energy levels excited by a powerful quasi-resonant radiation. It is shown that under interference conditions of the atomic states in the field of the trial and resonance waves there exist three types of waves: an inverse wave and two polarization waves. By way of extension of the Ewald-Oseen procedure to this case a formula for the complex refractive index of a nonlinear medium for the three types of waves as well as a generalized extinction theorem have been obtained. It is shown that the trial wave can be amplified without inversion of the interfering atomic states and that the refractive index can be markedly changed at certain concentrations of atoms in the medium. General formulas for the amplitudes of the reflected and refracted waves have been obtained. Ul’yanovsk State University, 42, Tolstoi Str., Ul’yanovsk, 432700, Russia. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 568–575, July–August, 1998.