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...

Brownian motors subject to a travelling wave potential are discussed. The Brownian motors move in the form of solitary waves. The solitary wave of the Brownian motor is evaluated analytically. Two expressions for the efficiency of Brownian motors are distinguished, one for generating force and...

In this paper, the compound Burgers–Korteweg–de Vries equation is studied by the first integral method, which is based on ring theory in commutative algebra. Several new kink-profile waves and periodic waves are established. The applications of these results to other nonlinear wave equations...

A weakly nonlinear model is used to study capillary-gravity waves generated by a traveling localized surface pressure distribution. The weakly nonlinear model is a truncation of the potential flow equations in deep water, and includes cubic nonlinear terms. Numerically, solitary waves are shown...

In this paper, we investigate in detail the interactions of solitary waves in lattice systems with interaction potential V(q)=qn/n, where n is 4,6,8…, through their all possible collision types, and establish a quantitative connection between the scattering property of solitary waves and the...

The nonlinear theory of two-dimensional ion-acoustic (IA) solitary waves and shocks (SWS) is revisited in a dissipative quantum plasma. The effects of dispersion, caused by the charge separation of electrons and ions and the quantum force associated with the Bohm potential for degenerate...