Stability of viscous St. Venant roll waves: from onset to infinite Froude number limit (Q525501)

The authors consider the stability of periodic wave train solutions of the inclined viscous 1D shallow water equations of St. Venant. The right-hand side depends on the Froude number \(F\); the limit cases of \(F\to2\) and \(F\to\infty\) are considered. In the first limit case the system is approximated by a perturbed KdV equation (KdV-KS). The approximation is justified in the article. The behaviour of solutions for large \(F\) is studied numerically.