posted on 2013-12-18, 00:00authored byHongqiu Chen, Jerry L. Bona
For a general class of nonlinear, dispersive wave equations, existence
of periodic, traveling-wave solutions is studied. These traveling waveforms
are the analog of the classical cnoidal-wave solutions of the Korteweg-de
Vries equation. They are determined to be stable to perturbation of the same
period. Their large wavelength limit is shown to be solitary waves.