2025/04/24 by Berjamin, Harold, Destrade, Michel, Saccomandi, Giuseppe · 1 citation
#74J30 (Primary) 74J35 #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.17411
The propagation of nonlinear and dispersive waves in various materials can be described by the well-known Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation, which is a (2+1)-dimensional partial differential equation. In this paper, we show that the KP equation can be used to describe the in-plane motion of compressible elastic solids with dispersion. Furthermore, a modified KP equation with cubic nonlinearity is obtained in the case of incompressible solids with dispersion. Then, several solutions of these partial differential equations are discussed and computed using a Fourier spectral method. In particular, both equations admit solitary wave solutions.