Solitary waves for a higher order Boussinesq system: Stability and numerical experiments

Abstract

In this work, we study the nonlinear orbital stability of solitary-wave solutions for a class of higher-order Boussinesq systems with Hamiltonian structure. Using variational methods and the asymptotic connection with generalized fifth-order KdV equations, we establish orbital stability results for a broad family of homogeneous and nonhomogeneous nonlinearities satisfying suitable scaling assumptions. We also perform numerical simulations to investigate the stability criterion associated with the solitary waves. The numerical results suggest that the range of wave velocities leading to orbital stability may be larger than that predicted by the theoretical analysis.

29 pages, 5 figures. Comments are welcome