title: Phase-modulated solitary waves controlled by a boundary condition at the bottom.
abstract: A forced Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is derived to describe weakly nonlinear, shallow-water surface wave propagation over nontrivial bottom boundary condition. We show that different functional forms of bottom boundary conditions self-consistently produce different forced KdV equations as the evolution equations for the free surface. Solitary wave solutions have been analytically obtained where phase gets modulated controlled by bottom boundary condition, whereas amplitude remains constant.
authors.affiliation: Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, I/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Abhik
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.affiliation: Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, I/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Janaki
mesh_terms: D009038:Motion; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D014867:Water