MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY AND FORMATION OF A NONLINEAR OSCILLATORY STRUCTURE IN A FOCUSING MEDIUM

Authors
EL GA GUREVICH AV KHODOROVSKII VV KRYLOV AL
Citation
Ga. El et al., MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY AND FORMATION OF A NONLINEAR OSCILLATORY STRUCTURE IN A FOCUSING MEDIUM, Physics letters. A, 177(4-5), 1993, pp. 357-361
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759601
Volume
177
Issue
4-5
Year of publication
1993
Pages
357 - 361
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(1993)177:4-5<357:MIAFOA>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
The self-similar decay of the uniform envelope of an unstable wave des cribed by the ''focusing'' nonlinear Schrodinger equation is studied. The exact analytic solution of the appropriate elliptic Whitham averag ed system is obtained.