Multiphase autoresonant excitations in the Korteweg-de Vries system.

Abstract

Autoresonant (continuously phase-locked) two-phase waves of the Korteweg-de Vries equation are excited and controlled using a two-component, small amplitude, chirped frequency driving. These solutions are analyzed in the weakly nonlinear regime. The theory is based on Whitham's averaged variational principle. The problem is reduced to a fully separated two degrees of freedom dynamical problem. This separation allows for simple derivation of the autoresonant thresholds on the driving wave amplitudes. We also excite more complex four-phase autoresonant waves. The inverse scattering analysis of this case indicates again the separation of all four degrees of freedom in the associated weakly nonlinear dynamical problem.