Special Session 56: Dynamical properties of nonlinear partial differential equations

Rediscovering shallow-water equations from experimental data
Douglas Svensson Seth
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Sweden
Co-Author(s):    Kjell Heinrich, Mats Ehrnstrom, Simen Ellingsen
Abstract:
While data-driven methods have advanced the discovery of governing equations, extracting robust partial differential equations from real-world data remains challenging. Here we present a Fourier-based approach to rediscover a shallow water-equation akin to the Korteweg-De Vries (KdV) equation using only video footage of solitons. The Fourier-multiplier technique is also compared to another distinct method, weak-form sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (WSINDy), which independently recover the same PDE, confirming its inherent structure in the data. We validate the discovered equation by solving it forward and comparing it to unseen experimental cases.