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New Approaches to Nonlinear Waves

New Approaches to Nonlinear Waves

Tobisch, Elena

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Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, Book 908

Physics

ISBN10: 3319206893
ISBN13: 9783319206899
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 29 2015
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Introduction (E. Tobisch).- Brief historical overview.- Main notions.- Resonant interactions.- Modulation instability.- Frameworks.- Reality check.- References.- The effective equation method (Sergei Kuksin and Alberto Maiocchi).- Introduction.- How to construct the effective equation.- Structure of resonances.- CHM: resonance clustering.- Concluding remarks.- References.- On the discovery of the steady-state resonant water waves (Shijun Liao, Dali Xu and Zeng Liu).- Introduction.- Basic ideas of homotopy analysis method.- Steady-state resonant waves in constant-depth water.- Experimental observation.- Concluding remarks.- References.- Modulational instability in equations of KdV type (Jared C. Bronski, Vera Mikyoung Hur and Mathew A. Johnson).- Introduction.- Periodic traveling waves of generalized KdV equations.- Formal asymptotics and Whitham's modulation theory.- Rigorous theory of modulational instability.- Applications.- Concluding remarks.- References.- Modulational instability and rogue waves in shallow water models (R. Grimshaw, K. W. Chow and H. N. Chan).- Introduction.- Korteweg-de Vries equations.- Boussinesq model.- Hirota-Satsuma model.- Discussion.- References.- Hamiltonian framework for short optical pulses (Shalva Amiranashvili).- Introduction.- Poisson brackets.- Pulses in optical fibers.- Hamiltonian description of pulses.- Concluding remarks.- References.- Modeling water waves beyond perturbations (Didier Clamond and Denys Dutykh).- Introduction.- Preliminaries.- Variational formulations.- Examples.- Discussion.- References.- Quantitative Analysis of Nonlinear Water-Waves: a Perspective of an Experimentalist (Lev Shemer).- Introduction.- The experimental facilities.- The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation.- The Modified Nonlinear Schrödinger (Dysthe) Equation.- The Spatial Zakharov Equation.- Statistics of nonlinear unidirectional water waves.- Discussion and Conclusions.- References.

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