On the Whitham equations for the defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation with step initial data

Journal of Nonlinear Science

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 435-481

  Biondini, G ^a   Kodama, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dispersive regularizations; dispersive shocks; nonlinear optical pulses; Nonlinear Schr odinger equation; weak dispersion limit; Whitham equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867955022     PISSN: 09388974     EISSN: 14321467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00332-005-0733-2     Document Type: Article

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