Soliton interactions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation and generation of large-amplitude water waves
arXiv:0903.5279
Abstract
We study the maximum wave amplitude produced by line-soliton interactions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili II (KPII) equation, and we discuss a mechanism of generation of large amplitude shallow water waves by multi-soliton interactions of KPII. We also describe a method to predict the possible maximum wave amplitude from asymptotic data. Finally, we report on numerical simulations of multi-soliton complexes of the KPII equation which verify the robustness of all types of soliton interactions and web-like structure.
28 pages, 11 figures. Stud. Appl. Math. vol. 122 (2009). Editorial production errors in the printed version were corrected. Several discussions about amplitude were improved. Some figures were improved