Numerical bifurcation and spectral stability of wavetrains in bidirectional Whitham models

DOI10.1111/SAPM.12221zbMATH Open1401.35250arXiv1710.09950OpenAlexW2811138439WikidataQ129648818 ScholiaQ129648818MaRDI QIDQ4685707FDOQ4685707

Authors: Kyle M. Claassen, Mathew A. Johnson 

Publication date: 9 October 2018

Published in: Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider several different bidirectional Whitham equations that have recently appeared in the literature. Each of these models combine the full two-way dispersion relation from the incompressible Euler equations with a canonical shallow water nonlinearity, providing nonlocal model equations that may be expected to exhibit some of the interesting high-frequency phenomena present in the Euler equations that standard "long-wave" theories fail to capture. Of particular interest here is the existence and stability of periodic traveling wave solutions in such models. Using numerical bifurcation techniques we construct global bifurcation diagrams for each system and compare the global structure of branches, together with the possibility of bifurcation branches terminating in a "highest" singular (peaked/cusped) wave. We also numerically approximate the stability spectrum along these bifurcation branches and compare the stability predictions of these models. Our results confirm a number of analytical results concerning the stability of asymptotically small waves in these models and provide new insights into the existence and stability of large amplitude waves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09950

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices (65F15) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Soliton solutions (35C08) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10) Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Euler equations (35Q31) Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L06) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35) Numerical bifurcation problems (65P30)

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