Higher Order Modulation Equations for a Boussinesq Equation

DOI10.1137/S1111111102411298MaRDI QIDQ4706169zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Eugene Wayne, J. Douglas Wright

Publication date 19 June 2003

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0207148

zbMATH Keywords

water wave problemKdV approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

Abstract: In order to investigate corrections to the common KdV approximation to long waves, we derive modulation equations for the evolution of long wavelength initial data for a Boussinesq equation. The equations governing the corrections to the KdV approximation are explicitly solvable and we prove estimates showing that they do indeed give a significantly better approximation than the KdV equation alone. We also present the results of numerical experiments which show that the error estimates we derive are essentially optimal.

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