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(physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance; does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate
soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure
How To Use solitary wave In A Sentence
- Something similar happens with solitary waves in the atmosphere and you sometimes feel them as clear air turbulence onboard aircraft. Times, Sunday Times
- Solitons and solitary waves in inhomogeneous media are of interest in relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum electronics, e. g. in research on infrared soliton lasers.
- It is very unusual, and it is called a soliton, or solitary wave. Woman : planet :: love : monsters
- When a sound wave strikes the spheres at one end of the acoustic lens, the sound gets converted into a type of shock wave known as a solitary wave.
- By the orbit in the phase portraits, different kinds of solitary wave, kink wave and periodic wave solutions are obtained.
- Then ten new real exact solitary wave solutions for then-dimension nonlinear Chaffe-Infante equation are obtained by using these formulas and a direct supposal method.
- On the other hand, internal tide with large amplitude and generating solitary waves will disturb the work of oceanic engineering and be dangerous to marine oil platform and submarine oil pipe.
- By introducing double parameter transformation, the explicit solitary wave solutions for a nonlinear equation are obtained.
