Spring–mass behavior of solitons under the influence of an external force field within the modified Korteweg–de Vries equation

Marcelo V. Flamarion, Efim Pelinovsky and Ioann Melnikov

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2025, vol. 196, issue C

Abstract: We investigate the interaction of solitons with an external periodic field within the framework of the modified Korteweg–de Vries (mKdV) equation. In the case of small perturbation a simple dynamical system is used to describe the soliton behavior. Equilibrium points of this dynamical system are computed when the external force travels at a constant speed. Assuming that the external force moves with sinusoidal speed, we demonstrate that the soliton behavior is qualitatively similar to the constant-speed case. Besides, a resonant frequency is derived from the asymptotic theory without using the classical broad force approximation. The results obtained from the dynamical system are compared with fully nonlinear direct numerical simulations, which reveal that the soliton solution exhibits spiral-like behavior in the soliton amplitude versus soliton phase space. Moreover, when the external force oscillates at the resonant frequency, the trajectories in the soliton phase versus soliton amplitude exhibit chaotic behavior.

Keywords: Solitons; Trapped waves; Asymptotics; Nonlinear waves (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2025.116422

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