High-frequency instabilities of the Kawahara equation: a perturbative approach

DOI10.1137/21M1393376zbMATH Open1478.35072arXiv2101.06601MaRDI QIDQ5164893FDOQ5164893

Authors: Ryan P. Creedon, Olga Trichtchenko, Bernard Deconinck 

Publication date: 15 November 2021

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze the spectral stability of small-amplitude, periodic, traveling-wave solutions of the Kawahara equation. These solutions exhibit high-frequency instabilities when subject to bounded perturbations on the whole real line. We introduce a formal perturbation method to determine the asymptotic growth rates of these instabilities, among other properties. Explicit numerical computations are used to verify our asymptotic results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06601

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zbMATH Keywords

perturbation methodsspectral stabilityKawahara equationStokes wavesdispersive Hamiltonian systemshigh-frequency instabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) General spectral theory of ordinary differential operators (34L05) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Initial value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G25) Stability problems for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K45)

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