Dispersive and diffusive-dispersive shock waves for nonconvex conservation laws

GA El, MA Hoefer, M Shearer - SIAM Review, 2017 - SIAM
We consider two physically and mathematically distinct regularization mechanisms of scalar
hyperbolic conservation laws. When the flux is convex, the combination of diffusion and …

Dispersive shock waves and modulation theory

GA El, MA Hoefer - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2016 - Elsevier
There is growing physical and mathematical interest in the hydrodynamics of
dissipationless/dispersive media. Since GB Whitham's seminal publication fifty years ago …

Inverse scattering transform for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation with nonzero boundary conditions

G Biondini, G Kovačič - Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The inverse scattering transform for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation with non-
zero boundary conditions at infinity is presented, including the determination of the …

Soliton gas in integrable dispersive hydrodynamics

A El Gennady - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the spectral theory of soliton gases in integrable dispersive hydrodynamic
systems. We first present a phenomenological approach based on the consideration of …

Dispersive and classical shock waves in Bose-Einstein condensates and gas dynamics

MA Hoefer, MJ Ablowitz, I Coddington, EA Cornell… - Physical Review A …, 2006 - APS
A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a quantum fluid that gives rise to interesting shock-
wave nonlinear dynamics. Experiments depict a BEC that exhibits behavior similar to that of …

Recent developments in spectral theory of the focusing NLS soliton and breather gases: the thermodynamic limit of average densities, fluxes and certain meromorphic …

A Tovbis, F Wang - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we consider soliton and breather gases for one dimensional integrable
focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation (fNLS). We derive average densities and fluxes for …

Fast numerical nonlinear Fourier transforms

S Wahls, HV Poor - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The nonlinear Fourier transform, which is also known as the forward scattering transform,
decomposes a periodic signal into nonlinearly interacting waves. In contrast to the common …

Universality for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation at the gradient catastrophe point: rational breathers and poles of the tritronquée solution to Painlevé I

M Bertola, A Tovbis - Communications on Pure and Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The semiclassical (zero‐dispersion) limit of solutions q=q(x,t,ϵ) to the one‐dimensional
focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) is studied in a scaling neighborhood D of a …

On semiclassical (zero dispersion limit) solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation

A Tovbis, S Venakides, X Zhou - Communications on Pure and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We calculate the leading-order term of the solution of the focusing nonlinear (cubic)
Schrödinger equation (NLS) in the semiclassical limit for a certain oneparameter family of …

On Universality of Critical Behavior in the Focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation, Elliptic Umbilic Catastrophe and the Tritronquée Solution to the Painlevé-I …

B Dubrovin, T Grava, C Klein - Journal of nonlinear science, 2009 - Springer
We argue that the critical behavior near the point of “gradient catastrophe” of the solution to
the Cauchy problem for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation iϵ\varPsi_t+ϵ^22 …