Nonlinear Sciences – Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Scientific paper
2007-10-15
Nonlinear Sciences
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
27 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
We study the Whitham equations for the defocusing complex modified KdV (mKdV) equation. These Whitham equations are quasilinear hyperbolic equations and they describe the averaged dynamics of the rapid oscillations which appear in the solution of the mKdV equation when the dispersive parameter is small. The oscillations are referred to as dispersive shocks. The Whitham equations for the mKdV equation are neither strictly hyperbolic nor genuinely nonlinear. We are interested in the solutions of the Whitham equations when the initial values are given by a step function. We also compare the results with those of the defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation. For the NLS equation, the Whitham equations are strictly hyperbolic and genuinely nonlinear. We show that the weak hyperbolicity of the mKdV-Whitham equations is responsible for an additional structure in the dispersive shocks which has not been found in the NLS case.
Kodama Yuji
Pierce Virgil U.
Tian Fei-Ran
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