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soliton (sōˑ·l·tôn),

n a type of highly coherent wave that does not readily disperse. These solitary waves are sometimes used to explain the effects of energy medicine.
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According to the soliton theory [29-30] we can obtain that Equations (78)-(79) have exactly a soliton solution, thus the microscopic particles described by nonlinear Schrodinger Equations (5) are a soliton and have a wave-corpuscle feature.
A few specific topics explored are stochastic evolution of inviscid Burger fluid, singular solutions for geodesic flows of Vlasov moments, and reality problems in soliton theory.
A new entry in the WIT Press series on Advances in Fluid Mechanics, this book describes the role that soliton theory plays in fluids in several contexts.