We design consistent discontinuous Galerkin finite element schemes for the approximation of the Euler–Korteweg and the Navier–Stokes–Korteweg systems. We show that the scheme for the Euler–Korteweg system is energy and mass conservative and that the scheme for the Navier–Stokes–Korteweg system is mass conservative and monotonically energy dissipative. In this case the dissipation is isolated to...

In this paper, we discuss the Hamiltonian structure of Korteweg–de Vries equation, modified Korteweg–de Vries equation, and generalized Korteweg– de Vries equation. We proposed the Sine-function algorithm to obtain the exact solution for non-linear partial differential equations. This method is used to obtain the exact solutions for KdV, mKdV and GKdV equations. Also, we have applied the method...

The periodic flag manifold (in the Sato Grassmannian context) description of the modified Korteweg–de Vries hierarchy is used to analyse the translational and scaling self–similar solutions of this hierarchy. These solutions are characterized by the string equations appearing in the double scaling limit of the symmetric unitary matrix model with boundary terms. The moduli space is a double cove...

It is now well known that the focussing nonlinear Schrödinger equation allows plane waves to be modulationally unstable, and at the same time supports breather solutions which are often invoked as models for rogue waves. This suggests a direct connection between modulation instability and the existence of rogue waves. In this chapter we review this connection for a suite of long wave models, su...

In the course of the years the names of Korteweg and de Vries have come to be closely associated. The equation which is named after them plays a fundamental role in the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations. What are the origins of the doctoral dissertation of De Vries and of the Korteweg-de Vries paper? Bastiaan Willink, a distant relative of both of these mathematicians, has soug...

It is well known that from two-dimensional lattice equations one can derive one-dimensional lattice equations by imposing periodicity in some direction. In this paper we generalize the periodicity condition by adding a symmetry transformation and apply this idea to autonomous and nonautonomous lattice equations. As results of this approach, we obtain new reductions of the discrete potential Kor...

Painlevé II asymptotics near the leading edge of the oscillatory zone for the Korteweg-de Vries equation in the small dispersion limit Abstract In the small dispersion limit, solutions to the Korteweg-de Vries equation develop an interval of fast oscillations after a certain time. We obtain a universal asymptotic expansion for the Korteweg-de Vries solution near the leading edge of the oscillat...

The exponential decay rate of L−norm related to the Korteweg-de Vries equation with localized damping posed on the whole real line is established. In addition, using classical arguments we determine that the solutions associated to the fully damped Korteweg-de Vries equation do not decay in H− level for arbitrary initial data.