Nonlinear stationary states of the Vlasov equation in the Fourier-transformed velocity-space

We give an exact expression for the nonlinear stationary solutions of the Vlasov–Poisson equation in the Fourier-transformed velocity-space in both one and three space dimensions. We show that these solutions are entire functions of the amplitude of the electrostatic potential and that they converge to the van Kampen linear continuum eigenfunctions, if this amplitude tends to zero. We establish a correspondence between the nonlinear solutions and the BGK waves over the whole complex energy-plane. The solution corresponding to a phase space electron hole is investigated in detail.     

强非局域非线性介质中的二维库墨-高斯孤子簇

利用自相似技术求解一个在强非局域非线性条件下的(2+1)维非线性薛定谔方程,得到一个精确的库墨-高斯解析解,数值模拟与解析解的一致性表明,这种库墨-高斯孤子形成了一类空间孤子簇.发现这种非局域孤子具有较大的相移.     

Exact plasma wave solutions for isothermal electron fluid plasma

Quasistationary electron plasma waves of arbitrary amplitude and speed that are exact solutions of the isothermal electron fluid equations are shown to exist.     

Reflection–refraction of attenuated waves at the interface between a thermo-poroelastic medium and a thermoelastic medium

Phenomenon of reflection and refraction is considered at the plane interface between a thermoelastic medium and thermo-poroelastic medium. Both the media are isotropic and behave dissipative to wave propagation. Incident wave in thermo-poroelastic medium is considered inhomogeneous with deviation allowed between the directions of propagation and maximum attenuation. For this incidence, four attenuated waves reflect back in thermo-poroelastic medium and three waves refract to the continuing thermoelastic medium. Each of these reflected/refracted waves is inhomogeneous and propagates with a phase shift. The propagation characteristics (velocity, attenuation, inhomogeneity, phase shift, amplitude, energy) of reflected and refracted waves are calculated as functions of propagation direction and inhomogeneity of the incident wave. Variations in these propagation characteristics with the incident direction are illustrated through a numerical example.     

Waves that appear from nowhere and disappear without a trace

The title (WANDT) can be applied to two objects: rogue waves in the ocean and rational solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE). There is a hierarchy of rational solutions of ‘focussing’ NLSE with increasing order and with progressively increasing amplitude. As the equation can be applied to waves in the deep ocean, the solutions can describe “rogue waves” with virtually infinite amplitude. They can appear from smooth initial conditions that are only slightly perturbed in a special way, and are given by our exact solutions. Thus, a slight perturbation on the ocean surface can dramatically increase the amplitude of the singular wave event that appears as a result.     

Asymmetric wave propagation in nonlinear systems

A mechanism for asymmetric (nonreciprocal) wave transmission is presented. As a reference system, we consider a layered nonlinear, nonmirror-symmetric model described by the one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr?dinger equation with spatially varying coefficients embedded in an otherwise linear lattice. We construct a class of exact extended solutions such that waves with the same frequency and incident amplitude impinging from left and right directions have very different transmission coefficients. This effect arises already for the simplest case of two nonlinear layers and is associated with the shift of nonlinear resonances. Increasing the number of layers considerably increases the complexity of the family of solutions. Finally, numerical simulations of asymmetric wave packet transmission are presented which beautifully display the rectifying effect.     

Oblique Interaction of Ion-Acoustic Solitary Waves in e-p-i Plasmas

In this study, we investigate the oblique collision of two ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) in a three-species plasma composed of electrons, positrons, and ions. We use the extended Poincare-Lighthill-Kuo (PLK) method to derive the two-sided Korteweg-de-Vries (KdV) equations and Hirota’s method for soliton solutions. The effects of the ratio (δ) of electron temperature to positron temperature and the ratio (p) of the number density of positrons to that of electrons on the phase shift are studied. It is observed that the phase shift is significantly influenced by the parameters mentioned above. It is also observed that for some time interval during oblique collision, one practically motionless composite structure is formed, i.e., when two ion-acoustic waves with the same amplitude interact obliquely, a new non-linear wave is formed during their collision, which means that ahead of the colliding ion-acoustic solitary waves, both the amplitude and width are greater that those of the colliding solitary waves. As a result, the nonlinear wave formed after collision is a new one and is delayed. The oblique collision of solitary waves in a two-dimensional geometry is more realistic in high-energy astrophysical pair plasmas such as the magnetosphere of neutron stars and black holes.     

Coupled Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation： Symmetries and Exact Solutions

The symmetries, symmetry reductions, and exact solutions of a coupled nonlinear Schrodinger （CNLS） equation derived from the governing system for atmospheric gravity waves are researched by means of classical Lie group approach in this paper. Calculation shows the CNLS equation is invariant under some Galilean transformations, scaling transformations, phase shifts, and space-time translations. Some ordinary differential equations are derived from the CNLS equation. Several exact solutions including envelope cnoidal waves, solitary waves and trigonometric function solutions for the CNLS equation are also obtained by making use of symmetries.     

Particle-in-Cell Simulation of the Reflection of a Korteweg-de Vries Solitary Wave and an Envelope Solitary Wave at a Solid Boundary

Reflections of a Korteweg-de Vries(KdV) solitary wave and an envelope solitary wave are studied by using the particle-in-cell simulation method.Defining the phase shift of the reflected solitary wave,we notice that there is a phase shift of the reflected KdV solitary wave,while there is no phase shift for an envelope solitary wave.It is also noted that the reflection of a KdV solitary wave at a solid boundary is equivalent to the head-on collision between two identical amplitude solitary waves.     

On stochastic stabilization of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability by three-wave resonant interaction

An analytical investigation of the effect of three-wave resonant interactions with the linearly unstable wave is proposed. We consider the waves in the Kelvin-Helmholtz model, consisting of two fluid layers with different densities and velocities. We suppose that the velocity shear is weakly supercritical, the instability is of the algebraic type, i.e., the amplitude of the unstable wave grows linearly, and the instability occurs within the framework of a single mode. The amplitudes of two other waves taking part in the nonlinear interaction are assumed to be stable. The initial amplitudes of these waves are supposed to be small in comparison with the initial amplitude of the unstable wave. We present an analysis of the system of amplitude equations derived for this case using JWKB-method. As a result, we obtain equations that couple solutions pre- and post-passing the singular point, i.e., the point where the amplitude of the unstable wave has a local minimum. These equations give us the transformation rule of a parameter that characterizes the phase shift between fast and slow waves and defines the behavior of the system. This parameter is constant between two singular points and varies by chance at a singular point. As long as it stays positive, the amplitude of the wave remains limited and performs stochastic oscillations. If this parameter passes over zero, then we leave the region of stabilization and turn out in the region, where the amplitude grows infinitely. Accordingly, the transition to the region of instability happens stochastically. However, if the time interval, when the amplitude remains bounded, is large enough, the proposed scenario can be treated as a partial stabilization of instability.     

Alfvén Waves in Non-Stationary and Non-Uniform Media: An Exactly Solvable Model

The modulation of Alfvén waves interacting with a non-uniform and non-stationary plasma is considered. The waveforms are allowed to change rapidly. We examine our phenomena by means of exact analytical solutions of the MHD equations in the presence of large amplitude disturbances of the magnetic field and plasma density. In contrast to the WKB approach, we do not have to use limiting assumptions regarding the variations of the background medium. We show that the large amplitude time and space disturbances lead to a new cut-off frequency for Alfvén wave propagation. A rapid reshaping of the Alfvén waveform can also obstruct the resonant interactions between the waves and the plasma particles.     

Extreme waves that appear from nowhere: On the nature of rogue waves

We have numerically calculated chaotic waves of the focusing nonlinear Schrr?odinger equation (NLSE), starting with a plane wave modulated by relatively weak random waves. We show that the peaks with highest amplitude of the resulting wave composition (rogue waves) can be described in terms of exact solutions of the NLSE in the form of the collision of Akhmediev breathers.     

暗怪波的相互作用

以耦合非线性薛定谔方程为理论模型,数值研究了两个一阶暗怪波在正常色散单模光纤中的相互作用.基于一阶暗怪波精确解,采用分步傅里叶数值模拟法,从间距、相位差和振幅系数比方面讨论相邻两个一阶暗怪波之间的相互作用.基于二阶暗怪波精确解,讨论了两个一阶暗怪波的非线性相互作用.研究结果表明:同相位情况下,间距参数T1为0、5、20时,相邻两个一阶暗怪波相互作用激发产生“扭结型”暗怪波.相比较于单个暗怪波发生能量的弥散,“扭结型”暗怪波分裂形成多个次暗怪波.反相位情况下,间距参数T1为2、7、12时,相邻两个一阶暗怪波相互作用也可以激发产生“扭结型”暗怪波.并且“扭结型”暗怪波初始激发的空间位置偏离原始单个暗怪波的位置5.振幅系数比越大,该空间位置越接近5.二阶暗怪波可以看作是两个一阶暗怪波的非线性叠加,复合型和三组分型二阶暗怪波与相邻两个一阶暗怪波的相互作用略有相似.     

Nonlinear electrostatic surface waves in a semi-infinite plasma

The nonlinear equations which govern the filamentation of a large-amplitude high-frequency electrostatic surface wave are studied considering solutions in the form of stationary traveling waves. It is shown that solitary surface waves exist at certain amplitude and phase conditions.     

On Born approximation in black hole scattering

A massless field propagating on spherically symmetric black hole metrics such as the Schwarzschild, Reissner–Nordström and Reissner–Nordström–de Sitter backgrounds is considered. In particular, explicit formulae in terms of transcendental functions for the scattering of massless scalar particles off black holes are derived within a Born approximation. It is shown that the conditions on the existence of the Born integral forbid a straightforward extraction of the quasi normal modes using the Born approximation for the scattering amplitude. Such a method has been used in literature. We suggest a novel, well defined method, to extract the large imaginary part of quasinormal modes via the Coulomb-like phase shift. Furthermore, we compare the numerically evaluated exact scattering amplitude with the Born one to find that the approximation is not very useful for the scattering of massless scalar, electromagnetic as well as gravitational waves from black holes.     

Head-on collision between two solitary waves in a one-dimensional bead chain

The head on collision between two opposite propagating solitary waves is studied in the present paper both numerically and analytically.The interesting result is that no phase shift is observed which is different from that found in other branches of physics.It is found that the maximum amplitude in the process of the head on collision is close to the linear sum of two colliding solitary waves.     

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.     

Nonlinear phase shift without cascaded second-order processes and third-order nonlinearity

A new mechanism for obtaining a nonlinear phase shift has been proposed and schemes are described for its implementation. As it is shown, the interference of two waves with intensity-dependent amplitude ratio coming from the second-harmonic generation should produce the nonlinear phase shift. The sign and amount of nonlinear distortion of a beam wavefront is dependent on the relative phase of the waves that is introduced by the phase element. The calculated value of n₂ ^eff exceeds that connected with cascaded quadratic nonlinearity, at the same conditions. Received: 1 November 1999 / Published online: 23 February 2000     

Exact solution of the frequency shift in dynamic force microscopy

The exact frequency shift of an AFM non-uniform probe with an elastically restrained root, subjected to van der Waals force, is derived. The original distributed system is considered and then its exact fundamental solutions and the general frequency equation are derived. Results are compared with those by the force gradient method and the perturbation method. The effects of several parameters on the sensitivity of measurement are investigated. Results show that the interpretation of frequency shift by using the force gradient method is unsatisfactory. The smaller the amplitude of oscillation and the tip–surface distance are, the larger the frequency shift. The design of a taper beam is recommended for increasing the sensitivity of measurement.     

Influence of an Octupole Arrangement of Electrodes on Drift Waves

In order to influence drift waves an octupole arrangement of electrodes is placed in direct vicinity of the plasma. By applying sinusoidal signals with proper phase shift to th electrodes synchronisation of drift waves is observed. The width of the synchronisation area is taken to quantify the interaction of the electrodes with the plasma. It turns out that the synchroniseability strongly depends on the frequency, amplitude and phase shift and has to be interpreted as spatiotemporal effect.