Traveling Waves and Space-Time Chaos in the Kawahara Equation

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  • Nikolai A. Magnitskii Federal Research Center ``Computer Science and Control'' of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Author

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https://doi.org/10.5890/JAND.2025.06.001

Abstract

The work carried out an analytical and numerical analysis of the transition to space-time chaos in the nonlinear Kawahara equation through cascades of bifurcations of traveling waves in accordance with the universal bifurcation scenario of Feigenbaum-Sharkovsky-Magnitskii. It has been proven that the bifurcation parameter in this case is the propagation velocity of traveling waves along the spatial axis, which is clearly not included in the original equation.

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Magnitskii, N. A. (2026). Traveling Waves and Space-Time Chaos in the Kawahara Equation. Journal of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, 14(2), 247-252. https://doi.org/10.5890/JAND.2025.06.001