Asymptotic Stability of Ascending Solitary Magma Waves

DOI10.1137/080712271zbMATH Open1166.74023arXiv0801.0463OpenAlexW2963803664MaRDI QIDQ5320705FDOQ5320705

Authors: Gideon Simpson, Michael I. Weinstein 

Publication date: 22 July 2009

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Coherent structures, such as solitary waves, appear in many physical problems, including fluid mechanics, optics, quantum physics, and plasma physics. A less studied setting is found in geophysics, where highly viscous fluids couple to evolving material parameters to model partially molten rock, magma, in the Earth's interior. Solitary waves are also found here, but the equations lack useful mathematical structures such as an inverse scattering transform or even a variational formulation. A common question in all of these applications is whether or not these structures are stable to perturbation. We prove that the solitary waves in this Earth science setting are asymptotically stable and accomplish this without any pre-exisiting Lyapunov stability. This holds true for a family of equations, extending beyond the physical parameter space. Furthermore, this extends existing results on well-posedness to data in a neighborhood of the solitary waves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0463

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zbMATH Keywords

well-posednessLyapunov stabilityviscously deformable porous media

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Stability of dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H55) Solitary waves in solid mechanics (74J35) Geophysical solid mechanics (74L05)

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