On a Hamiltonian PDE arising in magma dynamics

DOI10.3934/DCDSB.2008.10.903zbMATH Open1152.74029arXiv0801.0555OpenAlexW2963470953MaRDI QIDQ950574FDOQ950574

Authors: Gideon Simpson, Michael I. Weinstein, P. Rosenau 

Publication date: 30 October 2008

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we discuss a new Hamiltonian PDE arising from a class of equations appearing in the study of magma, partially molten rock, in the Earth's interior. Under physically justifiable simplifications, a scalar, nonlinear, degenerate, dispersive wave equation may be derived to describe the evolution of $phi$, the fraction of molten rock by volume, in the Earth. These equations have two power nonlinearities which specify the constitutive realitions for bulk viscosity and permeability in terms of $phi$. Previously, they have been shown to admit solitary wave solutions. For a particular relation between exponents, we observe the equation to be Hamiltonian; it can be viewed as a generalization of the Benjamin-Bona-Mahoney equation. We prove that the solitary waves are nonlinearly stable, by showing that they are constrained local minimizers of an appropriate time-invariant Lyapunov functional. A consequence is an extension of the regime of global in time well-posedness for this class of equations to (large) data, which include a neighborhood of a solitary wave. Finally, we observe that these equations have {it compactons}, solitary traveling waves with compact spatial support at each time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0555

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zbMATH Keywords

well-posednesssolitary wavestime-invariant Lyapunov functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geological problems (86A60) Hamilton's equations (70H05) Solitary waves in solid mechanics (74J35) Geophysical solid mechanics (74L05)

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