The phase shift analysis of the colliding dissipative KdV solitons

Abstract

In this work, the head-on collisions of the non-stationary dissipative soliton in ultracold neutral plasmas (UNPs) are investigated. The extended Poincare-Lighthill-Kuo (PLK) approach is adopted for reducing the fluid equations of the UNPs to two-counterpropagating damped Korteweg-de Vries (dKdV) equations. The dKdV equation is not an integrable Hamiltonian system, i.e., does not have an exact solution. Thus, one of the main goal of this paper is to find a new general approximate analytical solution to the dKdV equation for investigating the mechanism of the propagation and interaction of the non-stationary dissipative solitons. The residual error is estimated for checking the accuracy of the new obtained solution. The approximate analytical soliton solutions are adopted for deriving the temporal phase shifts after the collision. The impact of physical parameters on the nonstationary dissipative soliton profile and the temporal phase shifts is discussed. The obtained results will contribute to understand the mechanism of propagation and interaction of many nonlinear phenomena in different nonlinear mediums such as ocean, sea, optical fiber, plasma physics, etc.

Keywords

• Dissipative soliton collisions
• Damped Korteweg-de Vries equation
• The extended Poincare-Lighthill-Kuo method
• The temporal phase shifts