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SUBMITTER: Ratliff DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6451980 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences 20190313 2223
A mechanism for dispersion to automatically arise from the dispersionless Whitham Modulation equations (WMEs) is presented, relying on the use of a moving frame. The speed of this is chosen to be one of the characteristics which emerge from the linearization of the Whitham system, and assuming these are real (and thus the WMEs are hyperbolic) morphs the WMEs into the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in the boosted coordinate. Strikingly, the coefficients of the KdV equation are universal, in the ...[more]