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Integrable hierarchy covering the lattice Burgers equation in fluid mechanics: \(N\)-fold Darboux transformation and conservation laws. (English) Zbl 1264.37031

Summary: Burgers-type equations can describe some phenomena in fluids, plasmas, gas dynamics, traffic, etc. In this paper, an integrable hierarchy covering the lattice Burgers equation is derived from a discrete spectral problem. \(N\)-fold Darboux transformation (DT) and conservation laws for the lattice Burgers equation are constructed based on its Lax pair. \(N\)-soliton solutions in the form of Vandermonde-like determinant are derived via the resulting DT with symbolic computation, structures of which are shown graphically. Coexistence of the elastic-inelastic interaction among the three solitons is firstly reported for the lattice Burgers equation, even if the similar phenomenon for certern continuous systems is known. Results in this paper might be helpful for understanding some ecological problems describing the evolution of competing species and the propagation of nonlinear waves in fluids.

MSC:

37K10 Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.)
37K35 Lie-Bäcklund and other transformations for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems
35Q35 PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics
39A12 Discrete version of topics in analysis
37K05 Hamiltonian structures, symmetries, variational principles, conservation laws (MSC2010)
35C08 Soliton solutions
33F10 Symbolic computation of special functions (Gosper and Zeilberger algorithms, etc.)
76B15 Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction
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