Two numerical methods are presented for the periodic initial-value problem of the long wave–short wave interaction equations describing the interaction between one long longitudinal wave and two short transverse waves propagating in a generalized elastic medium. The first one is the relaxation...

The generalized nonlinear Schrödinger (GNLS) equation is solved numerically by a split-step Fourier method. The first, second and fourth-order versions of the method are presented. A classical problem concerning the motion of a single solitary wave is used to compare the first, second and...

We study the singularly perturbed (sixth-order) Boussinesq equation recently introduced by Daripa and Hua [Appl. Math. Comput. 101 (1999) 159]. This equation describes the bi-directional propagation of small amplitude and long capillary-gravity waves on the surface of shallow water for bond...

Solutions of a boundary value problem for the Korteweg–de Vries equation are approximated numerically using a finite-difference method, and a collocation method based on Chebyshev polynomials. The performance of the two methods is compared using exact solutions that are exponentially small at...

The variable-coefficient Korteweg-de Vries equation that governs the dynamics of weakly nonlinear long waves in a periodically variable dispersion management media is considered. For general bit patterns, an analytic expression describing the evolution of the timing shift produced by nonlinear...

In this paper, a fractional Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV for short) with initial condition is introduced by replacing the first order time and space derivatives by fractional derivatives of order α and β with 0α,β≤1, respectively. The fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo...

It is shown that if the dispersion of the KdV equation is replaced by a higher order dispersion ∂xm, where m≥3 is an odd integer, then the critical Sobolev exponent for local well-posedness on the circle does not change. That is, the resulting equation is locally well-posed in Hs(T), s≥−1/2.