Collision of KdV solitons
Collision of solitons in a laboratory wave channel
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire CARNOT de Bourgogne, Équipe Solitons, Laser et Communications optiques : http://icb.u-bourgogne.fr
The water is colored by fluorescein.
One photo of the solitonic event can be found at the following link : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Physics Department of the University of Burgundy
Vidéo by Julien FATOME, Stéphane PITOIS et Guy MILLOT
Other related videos : • Hydrodynamic soliton and • Onde hydrodynamique déferlante
see also the conference on the history of the solitons in Dijon (in french) : • Le soliton, une vague extraordinaire ...
More details on solitons and Korteweg-de-Vries equation can be found on wikipedia at :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kortewe...
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton