SOLITARY WAVES, SOLITON BOUND STATES AND CHAOS IN A DISSIPATIVE KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION

Propagating dissipative (localized) structures like solitary waves, pulses or “solitons,” “bound solitons,” and “chaotic” wave trains are shown to be solutions of a dissipation-modified Korteweg-de Vries equation that in particular appears in Marangoni-Benard convection when a liquid layer is heated from the air side and in the description of internal waves in sheared, stably stratified fluid layers.