Small amplitude traveling waves in the full-dispersion Whitham equation

DOI10.1007/S10884-018-9713-8MaRDI QIDQ2297207zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Atanas Stefanov, J. Douglas Wright

Publication date 18 February 2020

Published in Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10040

zbMATH Keywords

full-dispersion modelsnonlocal systemsorbital stabilitysolitary waveswater wavesWhitham equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Perturbations, asymptotics of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E10) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Wave equation (35L05) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53)

Abstract: In this article, we provide an alternative way to construct small amplitude traveling waves for general Whitham type equations, in both periodic and whole line contexts. More specifically, Fourier analysis techniques allow us to reformulate the problem to the study of waves that are small and regular perturbations of well-understood ODE's. In addition, rigorous stability of these waves is established.

Review text

In this paper, the authors provide an alternative way to construct small amplitude traveling waves in both periodic and whole line contexts for the following sort of pseudo-differential equations of Whitham type: \[ u_t+(Lu+n(u))_x=0,\quad u=u(x,t)\in \mathbb{R},\quad x\in \mathbb{R} \quad \text{and} \quad t\in \mathbb{R}, \] where $n : \mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is purely nonlinear, $L$ is a Fourier multiplier operator with symbol $m$, that is \[ \widehat{Lf}(k)=m(k)\widehat{f}(k), \] $\widehat{f}(k)$ is the Fourier transform of $f(x)$, and \[ m(k)=\sqrt{\tanh(k)/k}, \quad n(u)=u^2. \] A rescaling of the problem, together with some Fourier analysis reformulates the problem in such a way that the governing equations for the traveling waves are small and regular perturbations of well-understood ordinary differential equations. By using an implicit function theorem, the authors show the existence of solutions when the scaling parameter is small. Moreover, they establish rigorous spectral stability of these waves.

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