The stability of the b-family of peakon equations

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/ACAC5BzbMATH Open1506.35013arXiv2012.13019OpenAlexW3118169823MaRDI QIDQ5060029FDOQ5060029

Authors: Ross Parker, Stéphane Lafortune, E. G. Charalampidis, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis 

Publication date: 17 January 2023

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the present work we revisit the $b$-family model of peakon equations, containing as special cases the $b=2$ (Camassa-Holm) and $b=3$ (Degasperis-Procesi) integrable examples. We establish information about the point spectrum of the peakon solutions and notably find that for suitably smooth perturbations there exists point spectrum in the right half plane rendering the peakons unstable for $b<1$. We explore numerically these ideas in the realm of fixed-point iterations, spectral stability analysis and time-stepping of the model for the different parameter regimes. In particular, we identify exact, stationary (spectrally stable) lefton solutions for $b<-1$, and for $-1<b<1$, we dynamically identify ramp-cliff solutions as dominant states in this regime. We complement our analysis by examining the breakup of smooth initial data into stable peakons for $b>1$. While many of the above dynamical features had been explored in earlier studies, in the present work, we supplement them, wherever possible, with spectral stability computations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.13019

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zbMATH Keywords

Camassa-Holm equationnumerical simulationspeakonsDegasperis-Procesi equationspectral stability analysis\(b\)-family of peakon equationsleftonsramp-cliffs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Numerical methods for eigenvalue problems for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N25) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25)

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