Abstract
Dispersive spreading of a localized solitonless initial perturbation in KdV hydrodynamics with a slight dispersion is investigated with the aid of Whitham's slow modulation method and the generalized hodograph transformation. An exact solution of the appropriate Gurevich-Pitaevsky problem is constructed and a comparison is made with the results of the inverse scattering problem method in the quasiclassical limit.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 49-52 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Physics Letters A |
Volume | 182 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 8 Nov 1993 |
Externally published | Yes |