Bifurcations of traveling wave solutions for a two-component Fornberg-Whitham equation (Q634217)

The authors study a two-component Fornberg-Whitham equation given by \(u_t=u_{xxt}-u_x-uu_x+3u_xu_{xx}+uu_{xxx}+\rho_x\), \(\rho_t=-(\rho u)_x\), where \(u=u(x,t)\) is the height of the water surface above a horizontal bottom, and \(\rho=\rho(x,t)\) is related to the horizontal velocity field. Under additional conditions it is shown that there are smooth solutions, non smooth solutions and periodic wave solutions. The proofs are based on transforming the Fornberg-Whitham system into a planar dynamical system and on a discussion of phase portraits. Moreover, the authors present some explicit solutions.