Shocklike solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation

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Abstract

Plasma response to a piston driver has been modelled by the Korteweg-de Vries equation. The numerical shocklike solutions are evolving solitons similar to the asymptotic solutions of Gurevich and Pitaevski (1974). Quantitative experimental agreement is found with low-amplitude shocklike structures in the DP device.

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