Considering the fractal structure of space-time, a Burgers – Korteweg – de Vries (BKdV) type equation is obtained. Particularly, if the motions of the “non-differentiable fluid” are irrotational, the BKdV type equation is reduced to a non-linear Schrödinger type equation. In this case, the scalar complex velocity field simultaneously becomes wave function.

We study persistence properties of solutions to some canonical dispersive models, namely the semi-linear Schrödinger equation, the k-generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation and the Benjamin-Ono equation, in weighted Sobolev spaces Hs(Rn) ∩ L2(|x|ldx), s, l > 0.

The generalized Korteweg–de Vries equation has the property that solutions with initial data that are analytic in a strip in the complex plane continue to be analytic in a strip as time progresses. Established here are algebraic lower bounds on the possible rate of decrease in time of the uniform radius of spatial analyticity for these equations. Previously known results featured exponentially ...

(Received ?? and in revised form ??) It is well-known that transcritical flow over a localised obstacle generates upstream and downstream nonlinear wavetrains. The flow has been successfully modeled in the framework of the forced Korteweg-de Vries equation, where numerical and asymptotic analytical solutions have shown that the upstream and downstream nonlinear wavetrains have the structure of ...

Nonlinear long wave propagation in a medium with periodic parameters is considered in the framework of a variable-coefficient Korteweg-de Vries equation. The characteristic period of the variable medium is varied from slow to rapid, and its amplitude is also varied. For the case of a piecewise constant coefficient with a large scale for each constant piece, explicit results for the damping of a...

Transcritical flow over a localised obstacle generates upstream and downstream nonlinear wavetrains. In the weakly nonlinear long-wave regime, this flow has been modeled with the forced Korteweg-de Vries equation, where numerical simulations and asymptotic solutions have demonstrated that the upstream and downstream nonlinear wavetrains have the structure of unsteady undular bores, connected by...

Differential equations are very popular mathematical models of real world problems. Not every differential equation has a well behaved solution. For those equations whose well behaved solutions exist, we are interested in how they can be computed. Thus, the computability of the solution operators for different types of nonlinear differential equations becomes one of the most exciting topics in ...

This paper concerns the inverse problem of retrieving the principal coefficient in a Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation from boundary measurements of a single solution. The Lipschitz stability of this inverse problem is obtained using a new global Carleman estimate for the linearized KdV equation. The proof is based on the Bukhgĕım-Klibanov method.

We study the Cauchy initial-value problem for the Benjamin-Ono equation in the zero-dispersion limit, and we establish the existence of this limit in a certain weak sense by developing an appropriate analogue of the method invented by Lax and Levermore to analyze the corresponding limit for the Korteweg–de Vries equation. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.