A Canonical System of lntegrodifferential Equations Arising in Resonant Nonlinear Acoustics

In general, weakly nonlinear high frequency almost periodic wave trains for systems of hyperbolic conservation laws interact and resonate to leading order. In earlier work the first two authors and J. Hunter developed simplified asymptotic equations describing this resonant interaction. In the important special case of compressible fluid flow in one or several space dimensions, these simplified asymptotic equations are essentially two inviscid Burgers equations for the nonlinear sound waves, coupled by convolution with a known kernel given by the sum of the initial vortex strength and the derivative of the initial entropy. Here we develop some of the remarkable new properties of the solutions of this system for resonant acoustics. These new features include substantial almost periodic exchange of energy between the nonlinear sound waves, the existence of smooth periodic wave trains, and the role of such smooth wave patterns in eliminating or suppressing the strong temporal decay of sawtooth profile solutions of the decoupled inviscid Burgers equations. Our approach combines detailed numerical modeling to elucidate the new phenomena together with rigorous analysis to obtain exact solutions as well as other elementary properties of the solutions of this system.     

Traveling wave solutions for Generalized Drinfeld–Sokolov equations

In this paper, solitary waves and periodic waves for Generalized Drinfeld–Sokolov equations are studied, by using the theory of dynamical systems. Bifurcation parameter sets are shown. Under given parameter conditions, explicit formulas of solitary wave, kink (anti-kink) wave and periodic wave solutions are obtained.     

Resonantly Interacting Weakly Nonlinear Hyperbolic Waves. I. A Single Space Variable

We present a systematic asymptotic theory for resonantly interacting weakly nonlinear hyperbolic waves in a single space variable. This theory includes as a special case the theory of nonresonant interacting waves for general hyperbolic systems developed recently by J. Hunter and J. B. Keller, when specialized to a single space variable. However, we are also able to treat the general situation when resonances occur in the hyperbolic system. Such resonances are the typical case when the hyperbolic system has at least three equations and when, for example, small-amplitude periodic initial data are prescribed. In the important physical example of the 3 × 3 system describing compressible fluid flow in a single space variable, the resonant asymptotic theory developed by the authors yields, as limit equations, a pair of inviscid Burgers equations coupled through a linear integral operator with known kernel defined through the initial data for the entropy wave. (In the general case we give many new conditions guaranteeing nonresonance for a given hyperbolic system with prescribed initial data, as well as other new structural conditions which imply that resonance occurs.) A method for treating resonantly interacting waves in several space variables, together with applications, will be developed by the authors elsewhere.     

一类二次KdV类型水波方程的行波解

应用平面动力系统理论研究了一类非线性KdV方程的行波解的动力学行为．在参数空间的不同区域内,给出了系统存在孤立波解,周期波解,扭子和反扭子波解的充分条件,并计算出所有可能的精确行波解的参数表示．     

一类变形的Boussinesq方程组的行波解分支

在Boussinesq方程组求解方面,用平面动力系统的分支理论研究了一类变形的Boussinesq方程组的行波解分支．得到了不同参数条件下的分支集、相图及所有孤立波和扭波的精确公式．     

Dynamics and bifurcations of travelling wave solutions of R(<Emphasis Type="Italic">m,n</Emphasis>) equations

By using the bifurcation theory and methods of planar dynamical systems to R(m, n) equations, the dynamical behavior of different physical structures like smooth and non-smooth solitary wave, kink wave, smooth and non-smooth periodic wave, and breaking wave is obtained. The qualitative change in the physical structures of these waves is shown to depend on the systemic parameters. Under different regions of parametric spaces, various sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of the above waves are given. Moreover, some explicit exact parametric representations of travelling wave solutions are listed.     

Bifurcations of traveling wave solutions for the generalized coupled Hirota–Satsuma KdV system

In this paper, the bifurcations of solitary, kink and periodic waves for the generalized coupled Hirota–Satsuma KdV system are studied by using the bifurcation theory of planar dynamical systems. Bifurcation parameter sets are shown. Under given parameter conditions, explicit formulas for solitary wave solutions, kink wave solutions and periodic wave solutions are obtained.     

Bifurcation of travelling wave solutions for the generalized ZK-BBM equations

By using the bifurcation theory of planar dynamical systems to the generalized ZK-BBM equations, the existence of smooth and non-smooth travelling wave solutions is proved. Under different regions of parametric spaces, various sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of above solutions are given. Some exact explicit parametric representations of the above waves are determined.     

Bifurcation of travelling wave solutions for the generalized ZK equations

By using the bifurcation theory of planar dynamical systems to the generalized ZK equations, the existence of smooth and non-smooth travelling wave solutions is proved. Under different regions of parametric spaces, various sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of above solutions are given. Some exact explicit parametric representations of the above waves are determined.     

Bifurcation of travelling wave solutions for the generalized Camassa–Holm–KP equations

By using the bifurcation theory of planar dynamical systems to the generalized Camassa–Holm–KP equations, the existence of smooth and non-smooth travelling wave solutions is proved. Under different regions of parametric spaces, various sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of above solutions are given. Some exact explicit parametric representations of the above waves are determined.     

Bifurcation of travelling wave solutions for the generalized KP-MEW equations

By using the theory of bifurcations of planar dynamical systems to the generalized KP-MEW equations, the existence of smooth and non-smooth travelling wave solutions is proved. Under different regions of parametric spaces, various sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of the above solutions are given. Some exact explicit parametric representations of the above waves are obtained.     

Classification of Solitary Wave Bifurcations in Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations

Bifurcations of solitary waves are classified for the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equations with arbitrary nonlinearities and external potentials in arbitrary spatial dimensions. Analytical conditions are derived for three major types of solitary wave bifurcations, namely, saddle‐node, pitchfork, and transcritical bifurcations. Shapes of power diagrams near these bifurcations are also obtained. It is shown that for pitchfork and transcritical bifurcations, their power diagrams look differently from their familiar solution‐bifurcation diagrams. Numerical examples for these three types of bifurcations are given as well. Of these numerical examples, one shows a transcritical bifurcation, which is the first report of transcritical bifurcations in the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equations. Another shows a power loop phenomenon which contains several saddle‐node bifurcations, and a third example shows double pitchfork bifurcations. These numerical examples are in good agreement with the analytical results.     

Homogenization in the problem of long water waves over a bottom site with fast oscillations

The system of equations of gravity surface waves is considered in the case where the basin’s bottom is given by a rapidly oscillating function against a background of slow variations of the bottom. Under the assumption that the lengths of the waves under study are greater than the characteristic length of the basin bottom’s oscillations but can be much less than the characteristic dimensions of the domain where these waves propagate, the adiabatic approximation is used to pass to a reduced homogenized equation of wave equation type or to the linearized Boussinesq equation with dispersion that is “anomalous” in the theory of surface waves (equations of wave equation type with added fourth derivatives). The rapidly varying solutions of the reduced equation can be found (and they were also found in the authors’ works) by asymptotic methods, for example, by the WKB method, and in the case of focal points, by the Maslov canonical operator and its generalizations.     

Difference approximations for wave equations via finite elements. I. Construction and performance

Many practical applications of wave equations involve media in which there are interfaces, or discontinuities in material properties. The accurate numerical representation of these interfaces is important in mathematical models. One can develop generalizations of standard finite-difference methods that accommodate sharp interfaces by modifying a straightforward finite-element approach. In two space dimensions, these methods yield explicit, 5-point or 9-point difference schemes that accurately capture reflection, transmission, and refraction at interfaces. The approach also extends readily to the simulation of waves in elastic media. A companion article presents an error analysis for the approach. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Stable-Range Approach to Short Wave and Khokhlov-Zabolotskaya Equations

Short wave equations were introduced in connection with the nonlinear reflection of weak shock waves. They also relate to the modulation of a gas-fluid mixture. Khokhlov-Zabolotskaya equation is used to describe the propagation of a diffraction sound beam in a nonlinear medium. We give a new algebraic method of solving these equations by using certain finite-dimensional stable range of the nonlinear terms and obtain large families of new explicit exact solutions parameterized by several functions for them. These parameter functions enable one to find the solutions of some related practical models and boundary value problems. Research supported by China NSF 10871193.     

Bifurcations of travelling wave solutions for a variant of Camassa–Holm equation

By using the theory of planar dynamical systems to a variant of Camassa–Holm equation, the existence of periodic wave and solitary wave is proved. In different regions of the parametric space, the sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of the above solutions are given. In some conditions, exact parametric representations of these waves in explicit form are obtained.     

BIFURCATIONS OF TRAVELLING WAVE SOLUTIONS TO A COUPLED NONLINEAR WAVE SYSTEM

Employ theory of bifurcations of dynamical systems to a system of coupled nonlin-ear equations, the existence of solitary wave solutions, kink wave solutions, anti-kink wave solutions and periodic wave solutions is obtained. Under different parametric conditions, various suffcient conditions to guarantee the existence of the above so-lutions are given. Some exact explicit parametric representations of travelling wave solutions are derived.     

Bifurcations of travelling wave solutions for a class of nonlinear fourth order variant of a generalized Camassa–Holm equation

In this paper, by using the bifurcation theory of dynamical systems for a class of nonlinear fourth order variant of a generalized Camassa–Holm equation, the existence of solitary wave solutions, breaking bounded wave solutions, compacton solutions and non-smooth periodic wave solutions are obtained. Under different parametric conditions, various sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of the above solutions are given. Some exact explicit parametric representations of the above waves are determined.     

Propagation of discontinuities along bicharacteristics in the unsteady flow of a relaxing gas

Growth and decay of weak discontinuities headed by wave front of arbitrary shape in three dimensions are investigated in an unsteady flow of a relaxing gas. The transport equations representing the rate of change of discontinuities in the normal derivatives of the flow variables are obtained and it is found that the nonlinearity in the governing equations plays an important role in the interplay of damping and steepening tendencies of the wave. An explicit criterion for the growth and decay of weak discontinuities along bicharacteristic curves in the characteristic manifold of the governing differential equations is given and special reference is made of diverging and converging waves under different thermodynamical situations. It is shown that there is a special case of a compressive converging wave, irrespective of the thermodynamical state whether weak or strong, in which the effects of thermodynamical influences and that of wave front curvature are unable to overcome the tendency of the wave to grow into a shock.     

Explicit exact periodic wave solutions and their limit forms for a long waves-short waves model

A long waves-short waves model is studied by using the approach of dynamical systems. The sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of solitary wave, kink and anti-kink waves, and periodic wave in different regions of the parametric space are given. All possible explicit exact parametric representations of above traveling waves are presented. When the energy of Hamiltonian system corresponding to this model varies, we also show the convergence of the periodic wave solutions, such as the periodic wave solutions converge to the solitary wave solutions, kink and anti-kink wave solutions, and periodic wave solutions, respectively.