Weak and Strong Interactions between Internal Solitary Waves

The interaction of weakly nonlinear long internal gravity waves is studied. Weak interactions occur when the wave phase speeds are unequal; this case includes that of a head-on collision. It is shown that each wave satisfies a Korteweg-de Vries equation, and the main effect of the interaction is described by a phase shift. Strong interactions occur when the wave phase speeds are nearly equal although the waves belong to different modes. This case is described by a pair of coupled Korteweg-de Vries equations, for which some preliminary numerical results are presented.     

相同模式内弧立波的强斜相互作用*

水文讨论分层流体中相同模式向孤立波的强斜相互作用,包括浅流体情形和深流体情形．采用Lazrange描述方法,发现在浅流体情形相互作用由KP方程描述;在深流体情形相互作用由二维的中等长波方程描述;在无限深情形相互作用由二维的BO方程描述．     

Internal Solitary Waves

The expansion procedure introduced by Benney (1966) for weakly nonlinear, planar shallow-water waves is used to provide an alternative derivation of the more general results of Benjamin (1966) for shallow fluid layers possessing arbitrary vertical stratification and horizontal shear. New solutions that include the effects of both shear and stratification are presented. The evolution equation for slowly varying cylindrical solitary waves traveling in a density-stratified fluid is found using two-timing techniques. Not surprisingly, one obtains the same coefficients for the nonlinear and dispersive terms as in the planar case. In the limit for uniform density it is shown that the free-surface evolution equation of Miles (1978) for axisymmetric Boussinesq waves is recovered.     

Strong Interactions between Solitary Waves Belonging to Different Wave Modes

Strong interactions between weakly nonlinear long waves are studied. Strong interactions occur when the linear long wave phase speeds are nearly equal although the waves belong to different modes. Specifically we study this situation in the context of internal wave modes propagating in a density stratified fluid. The interaction is described by two coupled Korteweg-deVries equations, which possess both dispersive and nonlinear coupling terms. It is shown that the coupled equations possess an exact analytical solution involving the characteristic “sech²” profile of the Korteweg-deVries equation. It is also shown that when the coefficients satisfy some special conditions, the coupled equations possess an n-solition solution analogous to the Korteweg-deVries n-solition solution. In general though the coupled equations are found not to be amenable to solution by the inverse scattering transform technique, and thus a numerical method has been employed in order to find solutions. This method is described in detail in Appendix A. Several numerical solutions of the coupled equations are presented.     

On Strongly Interacting Internal Solitary Waves

The Cauchy problem and global well-posedness for a mathematical model of the strong interaction of two-dimensional, long, internal gravity waves propogating on neighboring pycnoclines in a stratified fluid have been studied by Bona, Ponce, Saut, Tom, and others. We show that global well-posedness occurs even when the initial data is rough.     

Are Solitary Internal Waves Solitons?

Results of fully nonlinear numerical simulations of the interaction of two mode-1 solitary internal waves, both propagating in the same direction, are presented. After the interaction, two solitary internal waves emerge. The large wave is slightly larger than the initial large solitary wave, while the small one is slightly smaller than the initial small solitary wave. Some small-amplitude trailing mode-1 and mode-3 waves are generated by the interaction.     

Nonlinear Wave Equations for Oceanic Internal Solitary Waves

In the coastal ocean, the interaction of barotropic tidal currents with topographic features such as the continental shelf, sills in narrow straits, and bottom ridges are often observed to generate large amplitude, horizontally propagating internal solitary waves. These are long nonlinear waves and hence can be modeled by equations of the Korteweg–de Vries type. Typically they occur in regions of variable bottom topography, with the consequence that the appropriate nonlinear evolution equation has variable coefficients. Further, as these waves can be long‐lived it is necessary to take account of the effects of the Earth's background rotation. We review this family of model evolution equations and some of their pertinent solutions, obtained both asymptotically and numerically.     

Dynamics of Strongly Nonlinear Internal Solitary Waves in Shallow Water

We study the dynamics of large amplitude internal solitary waves in shallow water by using a strongly nonlinear long-wave model. We investigate higher order nonlinear effects on the evolution of solitary waves by comparing our numerical solutions of the model with weakly nonlinear solutions. We carry out the local stability analysis of solitary wave solution of the model and identify an instability mechanism of the Kelvin–Helmholtz type. With parameters in the stable range, we simulate the interaction of two solitary waves: both head-on and overtaking collisions. We also study the deformation of a solitary wave propagating over non-uniform topography and describe the process of disintegration in detail. Our numerical solutions unveil new dynamical behaviors of large amplitude internal solitary waves, to which any weakly nonlinear model is inapplicable.     

Separatrix Map Analysis for Fractal Scatterings in Weak Interactions of Solitary Waves

Previous studies have shown that fractal scatterings in weak interactions of solitary waves in the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equations are described by a universal second-order separatrix map. In this paper, this separatrix map is analyzed in detail, and hence a complete characterization of fractal scatterings in these weak interactions is obtained. In particular, scaling laws of these fractals are derived analytically for different initial conditions, and these laws are confirmed by direct numerical simulations. In addition, an analytical criterion for the occurrence of fractal scatterings is given explicitly.     

Self-Similar Parabolic Optical Solitary Waves

We study solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) with gain, describing optical pulse propagation in an amplifying medium. We construct a semiclassical self-similar solution with a parabolic temporal variation that corresponds to the energy-containing core of the asymptotically propagating pulse in the amplifying medium. We match the self-similar core through Painlevé functions to the solution of the linearized equation that corresponds to the low-amplitude tails of the pulse. The analytic solution accurately reproduces the numerically calculated solution of the NLSE.     

微结构固体中孤立波的演变及非光滑孤立波

给出了包含宏观应变和微形变的全部二次项以及宏观应变三次项的一种新的自由能函数.利用新自由能函数并根据Mindlin微结构理论，建立了描述微结构固体中纵波传播的一种新模型.利用近来发展的奇行波系统的动力系统理论，分析了系统的所有相图分支，并给出了周期波解、孤立波解、准孤立尖波解、孤立尖波解以及紧孤立波解.孤立尖波解和紧孤立波解的得到，有效地证明了在一定条件下，微结构固体中可以形成和存在孤立尖波和紧孤立波等非光滑孤立波.此结果进一步推广了微结构固体中只存在光滑孤立波的已有结论.     

Solitary Waves for Nonconvex FPU Lattices

Solitary waves in a one-dimensional chain of atoms are investigated. The potential energy is required to be monotone and grow super-quadratically. The existence of solitary waves with a prescribed asymptotic strain is shown under certain assumptions on the asymptotic strain and the wave speed. It is demonstrated that the invariance of the equations allows one to transform a system with nonconvex potential energy density to the situation under consideration.     

Perturbations of Solitons and Solitary Waves

A direct perturbation method is developed to investigate the evolution of solitary waves in the presence of small perturbations. A uniformly valid first order solution is constructed. The method is applied to several nonlinear evolution equations which support solitons or solitary waves. Finally, the method is compared with other approaches in the literature.     

Envelope Solitary Waves and Periodic Waves in the AB Equations

This article deals with the envelope solitary waves and periodic waves in the AB equations that serve as model equations describing marginally unstable baroclinic wave packets in geophysical fluids and also ultra‐short pulses in nonlinear optics. An envelope solitary wave has a width proportional to its velocity and inversely proportional to its amplitude. The velocity of the envelope solitary wave is partially dependent on its amplitude in the sense that the amplitude determines the upper or lower limit of the velocity. When two envelope solitary waves collide, they survive the collision and retain their identities except for a shift in the positions of both the envelopes and the carrier waves. The periodic wave solutions in sine wave form may be stable or unstable depending upon the wave parameters. When the sine wave is destabilized by small perturbations, its long‐time evolution shows a Fermi–Pasta–Ulam‐type oscillation.     

一个两流体系统中mKdV孤立波的迎撞*

本文从文[2]的基本方程出发,采用约化摄动方法和PLK方法,讨论了三阶非线性和色散效应相平衡的修正的KdV(mKdV)孤立波迎撞问题.这些波在流体密度比等于流体深度比平方的两流体系统界面上传播.我们求得了二阶摄动解,发现在不考虑非均匀相移的情况下,碰撞后孤立波保持原有的形状,这与Fornberg和whitham[6]的追撞数值分析结果一致,但当考虑波的非均匀相移后,碰撞后波形将变化.     

Evolution of Higher-Order Gray Hirota Solitary Waves

The defocusing Hirota equation has dark and gray soliton solutions which are stable on a background of periodic waves of constant amplitude. In this paper, gray solitary wave evolution for a higher-order defocusing Hirota equation is examined. A direct analysis is used to identify families of higher-order gray Hirota solitary waves, which are embedded for certain parameter values. Soliton perturbation theory is used to determine the detailed behavior of an evolving higher-order gray Hirota solitary wave. An integral expression for the first-order correction to the wave is found and analytical expressions for the steady-state and transient components of the solitary wave tail are derived. A subtle and complex picture of the development of solitary wave tails emerges. It is found that solitary wave tails develop for two reasons, one is decay of the solitary wave caused by resonance, the second is corrections at first-order to the background wave. Strong agreement is found between the theoretical predictions of the perturbation theory and numerical solutions of the governing equations.     

Inhibiting Shear Instability Induced by Large Amplitude Internal Solitary Waves in Two-Layer Flows with a Free Surface

We consider a strongly nonlinear long wave model for large amplitude internal waves in two-layer flows with the top free surface. It is shown that the model suffers from the Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) instability so that any given shear (even if arbitrarily small) between the layers makes short waves unstable. Because a jump in tangential velocity is induced when the interface is deformed, the applicability of the model to describe the dynamics of internal waves is expected to remain rather limited. To overcome this major difficulty, the model is written in terms of the horizontal velocities at the bottom and the interface, instead of the depth-averaged velocities, which makes the system linearly stable for perturbations of arbitrary wavelengths as long as the shear does not exceed a certain critical value.     

有限深两层流中内孤立波的高阶解*

本文研究有限水深两层流中孤立波的三阶近似理论,并考虑了自由表面对孤立波的影响,运用坐标变形方法得到了三阶内孤立波的发展方程,求得波速的解析表达式。对方程进行了数值计算,得到了几种参数下三阶解曲线,指出自由表面对波型和波速的影响是二阶的。计算表明三阶解对一阶、二阶解有明显的改进,使其更加接近试验结果。     

Benjamin-Ono方程孤立波解的轨道稳定性

本文给出了Benjamin-Ono方程的孤立波解,并应用M.Grillakis[4,5]等的抽象理论,通过谱分析,证明了该孤立波解是轨道稳定的.     

Instability of Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Composite Media

In this paper,we investigate a class of Hamiltonian systems arising in nonlinear composite media.By detailed analysis and computation we obtain a decaying estimates on the semigroup and prove the orbitalinstability of two families of explicit solitary wave solutions (slow family in anisotropic case and solitary wavesin isotropic case),which theoretically verify the related guess and numerical results.