The behavior of linear and nonlinear dust acoustic waves (DAWs) in an unmagnetized plasma including inertialess electrons and positrons, ions, and mobile positive/negative dust grains are studied. Reductive perturbation method is employed for small and finite amplitude DAWs. To investigate the solitary waves, the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation is derived and the solution is presented. B...

Two-dimensional solitary waves at the surface of a film flow down a vertical plane are considered. When the system is subjected to inlet white noise, solitary waves are formed after an inception region and interact with each other. Using open-domain simulations of reduced equation models, we investigate numerically their late time process dynamics. Close to the instability threshold, the waves ...

We study statically homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates with spatially inhomogeneous interactions and outline an experimental realization of compensating linear and nonlinear potentials that can yield constant-density solutions. We illustrate how the presence of a step in the nonlinearity coefficient can only be revealed dynamically and examine how to reveal it by exploiting the inhomogeneity...

The nonlinear propagation of waves (specially solitary waves) in an ultra-relativistic degenerate dense plasma (containing ultra-relativistic degenerate electrons and positrons, cold, mobile, inertial ions, and negatively charged static dust) have been investigated by the reductive perturbation method. The linear dispersion relation and Korteweg de-Vries equation have been derived whose numeric...

It is shown analytically that pulse solitary waves in a chain with Lermard-Jones type nearest neighbor interaction are strongly localized and marginally stable in the high energy limit. In a damped and periodically driven chain we obtain numerically families of states whose behavior is similar to that of equally many oscillators. We observe a period doubling sequence in a one-solitary wave fami...

This research deals with the validation of fluid dynamic models, used for simulating shoaling and breaking solitary waves on slopes, based on experiments performed at the Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Marseille’s (ESIM) laboratory. A separate paper, also presented at this conference, reports on experiments. In a first part of this work, a fully nonlinear potential flow model based on a Bound...

Abstract In this paper we consider a coupled KdV system of Boussinesq type and its symmetric version. These systems were previously shown to possess generalized solitary waves consisting of a solitary pulse that decays symmetrically to oscillations of small, constant amplitude. We solve numerically the periodic initial-value problem for these systems using a high order accurate, fully discrete,...

In this paper we consider a coupled KdV system of Boussinesq type and its symmetric version. These systems were previously shown to possess Generalized Solitary Waves consisting of a solitary pulse that decays symmetrically to oscilations of small, constant amplitude. We solve numerically the periodic initial-value problem for these systems using a high order accurate, fully discrete, Galerkin-...

The excitation and propagation of solitary waves is studied experimentally in a two-dimensional strongly coupled dusty complex plasma. A single layer with 5000 microspheres 8 m diam was suspended in an argon plasma with a neutral gas pressure of 3.0 mTorr. The measured Debye shielding parameter was 1.6, where =a / is the ratio of the lattice constant a to the Debye length . Nonlinear, planar lo...

Since space charge waves on a particle beam exhibit both dispersive and nonlinear character, solitary waves or solitons are possible. Dispersive, nonlinear wave propagation in high current beams is found to be similar to ion-acoustic waves in plasmas with an analogy between Debye screening and beam pipe shielding. Exact longitudinal solitary wave propagation is found for potentials associated w...