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We’re having a #Soliton sale over here! Get yours quick! Seriously, though, this is a quick #animation of the #SolitonInteraction surface – the solution of the #Korteweg-deVries #Eauation showing (x,t,u(x,t)) giving you an all-round view.
I posted on #Soliton interactions in the #Korteweg-deVries #Equation yesterday with an #Animation of how two #SolitaryWaves interact. The #PhaseShift experienced by both can also be seen in a static #3D plot with time, t, plotted on one axis. You should be able to see a “dog-leg” in the trajectory of each wave after it interacts with the other.
A subtlety probably difficult to spot in the animation is that the interaction of the two waves leaves them phase shifted, with the taller wave gaining position, while the shorter one loses it. This further animation shows the interactions again (purple) but I’ve also shown what would happen if each wave moved without interaction with the other (red and blue).
Here is an example taken from Solitons: an introduction by Drazin & Johnson, where taller wave overtakes a shorter one moving in the same direction.
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When you start looking at #NonlinearWaves, some of these principles no longer apply. For example, in the Korteweg-de Vries equation, which has #Soliton or solutions, you can no longer simply add two solutions together as the resulting function would not be a solution of the governing equation. Waves of different heights travel at different velocities, with the taller waves moving faster than the shorter ones. Instead, they interact #nonlinearly.
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Also, waves of different heights travel at different velocities, with the taller waves moving faster than the shorter ones.
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In #FluidMechanics, things like #SurfaceWaves are often modelled using #LinearEquations, which give rise to phenomena such as the principle of #LinearSuperposition, where you can take two or more distinct solutions and simply add them together to get a new solution. Solutions are also periodic and can be decomposed into sinusoidal functions.
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(Applied?) maths terminology question:
In the context of signal analysis (doing things like Fourier transforms) you might have some variable (say, t) that you're treating as being equivalent to time and you're interested in some periodic function of t (say, sin(t)) with wavelength 2pi on the t scale.
It's common to (informally?) use the term "phase" to refer to the value of t within the first cycle of the periodic function. In that usage: phase = t modulo 2pi
By extension, I have seen people refer to location anywhere on t (not just the first cycle) as "phase", but this seems to me to be ambiguous, and not necessarily helpful, terminology.
My question is: Given that the variable t is possibly something much more abstract and not necessarily "time", is there some accepted terminology for referring to the variable t in this context?
(This is possibly a non-issue for pure mathematicians because they might never talk about phase and use only symbolic representations without using descriptive words. If so, I would be seeking terminology from some applied discipline where this kind of generic descriptive labelling is used.)
In brief, if I wanted to say:
phase = x modulo 2pi
because I am talking about periodic functions of x, is there some generic descriptive term for variables like x (e.g. time-like)?
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Yesterday, I posted an image of the #LorenzAttractor showing the evolution of three trajectories (shown in red, green and blue) starting close together. Here, I’ve made it into a little animation to show how the paths initially stay close to each other but after about a quarter of the duration plotted, they #diverge from each other irrevocably (i.e. become uncorrelated) but remain part of the #ChaoticAttractor.
Just messing about a bit. Here is the famous #LorenzAttractor plotted using #WxMaxima. The three #trajectories, shown in red, green and blue are for three fairly nearby #InitialConditions.
