We solve the Cauchy problem for the modified Korteweg–de Vries equation with steplike quasi-periodic, finite-gap initial conditions under the assumption that the perturbations have a given number of derivatives and moments finite.

where μ, ν are positive constants. This equation, in the case μ = 0, was derived independently by Sivashinsky [1] and Kuramoto [2] with the purpose to model amplitude and phase expansion of pattern formations in different physical situations, for example, in the theory of a flame propagation in turbulent flows of gaseous combustible mixtures, see Sivashinsky [1], and in the theory of turbulence...

The goal of this note is to construct a class of traveling solitary wave solutions for the compound Burgers-Korteweg-de Vries equation by means of a hyperbolic ansatz. A computational error in a previous work has been clarified.

In this paper, we prove that there exist no blow-up solutions of the critical generalized Korteweg–de Vries (gKdV) equation with minimal L2-mass, assuming an L2-decay on the right on the initial data.

It is well known that the Boussinesq equation is the bidirectional equivalent of the celebrated Korteweg-de Vries equation. Here we consider Boussinesq-type versions of two classical unidirectional integrable equations. A procedure is presented for deriving multisoliton solutions of one of these equations – a bidirectional Kaup–Kupershmidt equation. These solitons have the unusual property that...

Stable embedded solitons are discovered in the generalized third-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation. When this equation can be reduced to a perturbed complex modified Korteweg-de Vries equation, we developed a soliton perturbation theory which shows that a continuous family of sech-shaped embedded solitons exist and are nonlinearly stable. These analytical results are confirmed by our numeric...

The reduced Ostrovsky equation is a modification of the Korteweg-de Vries equation, in which the usual linear dispersive term with a third-order derivative is replaced by a linear non-local integral term, which represents the effect of background rotation. This equation is integrable provided a certain curvature constraint is satisfied. We demonstrate, through theoretical analysis and numerical...

The Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation has improved short-wavelength behaviour, as compared to the Korteweg-de Vries equation, and is another uni-directional wave equation with cnoidal wave solutions. Cnoidal wave solutions can appear in other applications than surface gravity waves as well, for instance to describe ion acoustic waves in plasma physics. Using a computerized symbolic computation tech...

In this paper, we consider the controllability of the Korteweg-de Vries equation in a bounded interval when the control operates via the right Dirichlet boundary condition, while the left Dirichlet and the right Neumann boundary conditions are kept to zero. We prove that the linearized equation is controllable if and only if the length of the spatial domain does not belong to some countable cri...