Numerical Study of Zakharov-Kuznetsov Equations in Two Dimensions

We present a detailed numerical study of solutions to the (generalized) Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in two spatial dimensions with various power nonlinearities. In the L-2-subcritical case, numerical evidence is presented for the stability of solitons and the soliton resolution for generic initial data. In the L-2-critical and supercritical cases, solitons appear to be unstable against both dispersion and blow-up. It is conjectured that blow-up happens in finite time and that blow-up solutions have some resemblance of being self-similar, i.e., the blow-up core forms a rightward moving self-similar type rescaled profile with the blow-up happening at infinity in the critical case and at a finite location in the supercritical case. In the L-2-critical case, the blow-up appears to be similar to the one in the L-2-critical generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation with the profile being a dynamically rescaled soliton.

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A detailed numerical study was conducted on solutions to the (generalized) Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in two spatial dimensions with various power nonlinearities, revealing the stability and soliton resolution for different cases. It was found that solitons exhibit different stability and blow-up characteristics under different conditions.