Name
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Dim
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Equation
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Applications
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Bateman-Burgers equation
|
1+1
|
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Fluid mechanics
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Benjamin–Bona–Mahony
|
1+1
|
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Fluid mechanics
|
Benjamin–Ono
|
1+1
|
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internal waves in deep water
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Boomeron
|
1+1
|
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Solitons
|
Boltzmann equation
|
1+6
|
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Statistical mechanics
|
Born–Infeld
|
1+1
|
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Electrodynamics
|
Boussinesq
|
1+1
|
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Fluid mechanics
|
Boussinesq type equation
|
1+1
|
|
Fluid mechanics
|
Buckmaster
|
1+1
|
|
Thin viscous fluid sheet flow
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Cahn–Hilliard equation
|
Any
|
|
Phase separation
|
Calabi flow
|
Any
|
|
Calabi–Yau manifolds
|
Camassa–Holm
|
1+1
|
|
Peakons
|
Carleman
|
1+1
|
|
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Cauchy momentum
|
any
|
|
Momentum transport
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Chafee–Infante equation
|
|
|
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Clairaut equation
|
any
|
|
Differential geometry
|
Clarke's equation
|
1+1
|
|
Combustion
|
Complex Monge–Ampère
|
Any
|
lower order terms
|
Calabi conjecture
|
Davey–Stewartson
|
1+2
|
|
Finite depth waves
|
Degasperis–Procesi
|
1+1
|
|
Peakons
|
Dispersive long wave
|
1+1
|
,
|
|
Drinfeld–Sokolov–Wilson
|
1+1
|
|
|
Dym equation
|
1+1
|
|
Solitons
|
Eckhaus equation
|
1+1
|
|
Integrable systems
|
Eikonal equation
|
any
|
|
optics
|
Einstein field equations
|
Any
|
|
General relativity
|
Ernst equation
|
2
|
|
|
Estevez–Mansfield–Clarkson equation
|
|
|
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Euler equations
|
1+3
|
|
non-viscous fluids
|
Fisher's equation
|
1+1
|
|
Gene propagation
|
Fitzhugh–Nagumo
|
1+1
|
|
Biological neuron model
|
Föppl–von Kármán equations
|
|
|
Solid Mechanics
|
G equation
|
1+3
|
|
turbulent combustion
|
Generic scalar transport
|
1+3
|
|
transport
|
Ginzburg–Landau
|
1+3
|
|
Superconductivity
|
Gross–Pitaevskii
|
1 + n
|
|
Bose–Einstein condensate
|
Gyrokinetics equation
|
1 + 5
|
|
Microturbulence in plasma
|
Guzmán
|
1 + n
|
|
Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation for risk aversion
|
Hartree equation
|
Any
|
|
|
Hasegawa–Mima
|
1+3
|
|
Turbulence in plasma
|
Heisenberg ferromagnet
|
1+1
|
|
Magnetism
|
Hicks
|
1+1
|
|
Fluid dynamics
|
Hunter–Saxton
|
1+1
|
|
Liquid crystals
|
Ishimori equation
|
1+2
|
|
Integrable systems
|
Kadomtsev –Petviashvili
|
1+2
|
|
Shallow water waves
|
Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation
|
1+3
|
|
Stochastics
|
von Karman
|
2
|
|
|
Kaup
|
1+1
|
|
|
Kaup–Kupershmidt
|
1+1
|
|
Integrable systems
|
Klein–Gordon–Maxwell
|
any
|
|
|
Klein–Gordon (nonlinear)
|
any
|
|
Relativistic quantum mechanics
|
Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya
|
1+2
|
|
|
Korteweg–de Vries (KdV)
|
1+1
|
|
Shallow waves, Integrable systems
|
KdV (cylindrical)
|
1+1
|
|
|
KdV (deformed)
|
1+1
|
|
|
K(n,n) equation)
|
n + n
|
|
|
KdV (generalized)
|
1+1
|
|
|
KdV (modified)
|
1+1
|
|
|
KdV (modified modified)
|
1+1
|
|
|
KdV (spherical)
|
1+1
|
|
|
KdV (super)
|
1+1
|
|
|
KdV (transitional)
|
1+1
|
|
|
KdV (variable coefficients)
|
1+1
|
|
|
KdV (Burgers)
|
1+1
|
|
Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation
|
1 + n
|
|
Combustion
|
Landau–Lifshitz model
|
1+n
|
|
Magnetic field in solids
|
Lin–Tsien equation
|
1+2
|
|
|
Liouville equation
|
any
|
|
|
Liouville–Bratu–Gelfand equation
|
any
|
|
combustion, astrophysics
|
Logarithmic Schrödinger equation
|
any
|
|
Superfluids, Quantum gravity
|
Minimal surface
|
3
|
|
minimal surfaces
|
Monge–Ampère
|
any
|
lower order terms
|
|
Navier–Stokes (and its derivation)
|
1+3
|
+ mass conservation:
+ an equation of state to relate p and ρ, e.g. for an incompressible flow:
|
Fluid flow, gas flow
|
Nonlinear Schrödinger (cubic)
|
1+1
|
|
optics, water waves
|
Nonlinear Schrödinger (derivative)
|
1+1
|
|
optics, water waves
|
Omega equation
|
1+3
|
|
atmospheric physics
|
Plateau
|
2
|
|
|
Pohlmeyer–Lund–Regge
|
2
|
|
|
Porous medium
|
1+n
|
|
diffusion
|
Prandtl
|
1+2
|
,
|
boundary layer
|
Rayleigh
|
1+1
|
|
|
Ricci flow
|
Any
|
|
Poincaré conjecture
|
Richards equation
|
1+3
|
|
Variably saturated flow in porous media
|
Rosenau–Hyman equation
|
1+1
|
|
compacton solutions
|
Sawada–Kotera
|
1+1
|
|
|
Schlesinger
|
Any
|
|
isomonodromic deformations
|
Seiberg–Witten
|
1+3
|
|
Seiberg–Witten invariants, QFT
|
Shallow water
|
1+2
|
|
shallow water waves
|
Sine–Gordon
|
1+1
|
|
Solitons, QFT
|
Sinh–Gordon
|
1+1
|
|
Solitons, QFT
|
Sinh–Poisson
|
1+n
|
|
|
Swift–Hohenberg
|
any
|
|
pattern forming
|
Thomas equation
|
2
|
|
|
Thirring model
|
1+1
|
,
|
Dirac field, QFT
|
Toda lattice
|
any
|
|
|
Veselov–Novikov equation
|
1+2
|
, ,
|
shallow water waves
|
Vorticity equation
|
|
|
Fluid Mechanics
|
Wadati–Konno–Ichikawa–Schimizu
|
1+1
|
|
|
WDVV equations
|
Any
|
|
Topological field theory, QFT
|
WZW model
|
1+1
|
|
QFT
|
Whitham equation
|
1+1
|
|
water waves
|
Williams spray equation
|
|
|
Combustion
|
Yamabe
|
n
|
|
Differential geometry
|
Yang–Mills equation (source-free)
|
Any
|
|
Gauge theory, QFT
|
Yang–Mills (self-dual/anti-self-dual)
|
4
|
|
Instantons, Donaldson theory, QFT
|
Yukawa equation
|
1+n
|
|
Meson-nucleon interactions, QFT
|
Zakharov system
|
1+3
|
|
Langmuir waves
|
Zakharov–Schulman
|
1+3
|
|
Acoustic waves
|
Zoomeron
|
1+1
|
|
Solitons
|
φ4 equation
|
1+1
|
|
QFT
|
σ-model
|
1+1
|
|
Harmonic maps, integrable systems, QFT
|