• systems, the three-wave equations, sometimes called the three-wave resonant interaction equations or triad resonances, describe small-amplitude waves in a variety...
    11 KB (1,547 words) - 17:48, 10 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Wave equation
    The wave equation is a second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields such as mechanical waves (e...
    60 KB (10,783 words) - 21:29, 14 May 2025
  • physics, the acoustic wave equation is a second-order partial differential equation that governs the propagation of acoustic waves through a material medium...
    10 KB (2,026 words) - 17:12, 3 March 2025
  • a medium or in a vacuum. It is a three-dimensional form of the wave equation. The homogeneous form of the equation, written in terms of either the electric...
    21 KB (3,105 words) - 08:56, 7 December 2024
  • The Schrödinger equation is a partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a non-relativistic quantum-mechanical system.: 1–2  Its...
    75 KB (10,263 words) - 22:53, 13 April 2025
  • one-way wave equation is a first-order partial differential equation describing one wave traveling in a direction defined by the vector wave velocity...
    11 KB (1,559 words) - 11:23, 6 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Cnoidal wave
    In fluid dynamics, a cnoidal wave is a nonlinear and exact periodic wave solution of the Korteweg–de Vries equation. These solutions are in terms of the...
    64 KB (9,616 words) - 07:29, 29 November 2024
  • of three or more waves, which includes the "three-wave equation" Quantum mechanics Wave equation Quantum state Matter wave Flint H.T., (1929) Wave Mechanics...
    531 bytes (95 words) - 07:54, 14 January 2025
  • the wave equation, the diffusion equation, and the Schrödinger equation for a free particle. In optics, the Helmholtz equation is the wave equation for...
    20 KB (2,975 words) - 18:26, 19 May 2025
  • they provide a pair of invariants or conserved quantities for the three-wave equation. For example, in a resonant interaction in non-linear optics, the...
    5 KB (607 words) - 20:48, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wave
    Rogue wave Scattering Shallow water equations Shive wave machine Sound Standing wave Transmission medium Velocity factor Wave equation Wave power Wave turbulence...
    61 KB (7,810 words) - 05:56, 1 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Backscatter
    non-linear optics, and described by a class of solutions to the three-wave equation. Sometimes, the scattering is more or less isotropic, i.e. the incoming...
    8 KB (907 words) - 07:47, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Korteweg–De Vries equation
    the Korteweg–De Vries (KdV) equation is a partial differential equation (PDE) which serves as a mathematical model of waves on shallow water surfaces....
    25 KB (3,206 words) - 12:54, 10 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Wave function
    Schrödinger equation determines how wave functions evolve over time, and a wave function behaves qualitatively like other waves, such as water waves or waves on...
    99 KB (13,587 words) - 21:25, 14 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation
    The Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation (BBM equation, also regularized long-wave equation; RLWE) is the partial differential equation u t + u x + u u x − u x...
    9 KB (1,225 words) - 15:45, 26 February 2025
  • Integrable system (category Partial differential equations)
    equation Nonlinear sigma models Sine–Gordon equation Thirring model Three-wave equation Integrable PDEs in 2 + 1 dimensions Davey–Stewartson equation...
    28 KB (3,407 words) - 13:15, 11 February 2025
  • of substantial contemporary interest. The model hyperbolic equation is the wave equation. In one spatial dimension, this is ∂ 2 u ∂ t 2 = c 2 ∂ 2 u ∂...
    9 KB (1,241 words) - 08:11, 21 October 2024
  • field equations (EFE; also known as Einstein's equations) relate the geometry of spacetime to the distribution of matter within it. The equations were...
    35 KB (5,076 words) - 05:30, 19 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Pilot wave theory
    guiding waves in terms of a relativistic wave equation were unsuccessful until in 1926 Schrödinger developed his non-relativistic wave equation. He further...
    27 KB (3,431 words) - 16:46, 5 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Wheeler–DeWitt equation
    differential equation on the space of three-dimensional spatial metrics. The Wheeler–DeWitt equation has the form of an operator acting on a wave functional;...
    11 KB (1,632 words) - 12:05, 12 May 2025
  • element analysis. Equations governing a linear elastic boundary value problem are based on three tensor partial differential equations for the balance of...
    41 KB (8,234 words) - 04:39, 19 May 2025
  • In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928. In its free form, or including...
    79 KB (13,120 words) - 13:01, 16 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Wave packet
    component wave function, and hence the wave packet, are solutions of a wave equation. Depending on the wave equation, the wave packet's profile may remain constant...
    39 KB (5,959 words) - 18:46, 15 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Soliton
    Soliton (redirect from Soliton wave)
    phenomenon in a wave tank and named it the "Wave of Translation". The Korteweg–de Vries equation was later formulated to model such waves, and the term...
    41 KB (4,513 words) - 01:52, 20 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Reaction–diffusion system
    solutions of reaction–diffusion equations display a wide range of behaviours, including the formation of travelling waves and wave-like phenomena as well as...
    29 KB (3,606 words) - 12:03, 27 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Periodic travelling wave
    three-dimensional space. While periodic travelling waves have been known as solutions of the wave equation since the 18th century, their study in nonlinear...
    28 KB (3,415 words) - 07:38, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rogue wave
    rogue waves. Among other causes, studies of nonlinear waves such as the Peregrine soliton, and waves modeled by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS)...
    113 KB (12,437 words) - 10:20, 5 April 2025
  • one-dimensional wave equation, and within ten years Euler discovered the three-dimensional wave equation. The Euler–Lagrange equation was developed in...
    29 KB (3,631 words) - 15:23, 23 April 2025
  • waves, they should satisfy some sort of wave equation. Inspired by Debye's remark, Erwin Schrödinger decided to find a proper three-dimensional wave equation...
    70 KB (8,040 words) - 07:56, 27 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Proca action
    Proca action (redirect from Proca equation)
    spacetime. The corresponding equation is a relativistic wave equation called the Proca equation. The Proca action and equation are named after Romanian physicist...
    5 KB (756 words) - 21:56, 9 February 2025