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A Microfluidic Model of Biomimetically Breathing Pulmonary Acinar Airways
Published on: May 9, 2016
Modulation of breathers in the three-dimensional nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii equation
A T Avelar1, D Bazeia, W B Cardoso
1Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, 74.001-970 Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Abstract:
In this paper we present analytical breather solutions of the three-dimensional nonlinear generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We use an Ansatz to reduce the three-dimensional equation with space- and time-dependent coefficients into a one-dimensional equation with constant coefficients. The key point is to show that both the space- and time-dependent coefficients of the nonlinear equation can contribute to modulate the breather excitations. We briefly discuss the experimental feasibility of the results in Bose-Einstein condensates.
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