José Raúl Quintero

Nonlinear Stability of a One-Dimensional Boussinesq Equation

We study nonlinear orbital stability and instability of the set of ground state solitary wave solutions of a one-dimensional Boussinesq equation or one-dimensional Benney–Luke equation. It is shown that a solitary wave (traveling wave with finite energy) may be orbitally stable or unstable depending on the range of the waves speed of propagation.

Solitons and periodic travelling waves for the 2D-generalized Benney–Luke equation

This article is related with one direction periodic travelling waves solutions for the 2D generalized Benney–Luke equation i.e, solution of the form Φ(x,y,t)= u(x−ct, y), with ζ =x−ct periodic. We establish the existence of a family of x-periodic travelling wave solutions for c 2<min {1, a/b}. We show that a special sequence of this family is uniformly bounded in norm and converges to a lump soliton in (solitary wave of finite energy) in an appropriate sense.

A Host of Traveling Waves in a Model of Three-Dimensional Water-Wave Dynamics

Summary. We describe traveling waves in a basic model for three-dimensional water-wave dynamics in the weakly nonlinear long-wave regime. Small solutions that are periodic in the direction of translation (or orthogonal to it) form an infinite-dimensional family. We characterize these solutions through spatial dynamics, by reducing a linearly ill-posed mixed-type initial-value problem to a center manifold of infinite dimension and codimension. A unique global solution exists for arbitrary small initial data for the two-component bottom velocity, specified along a single line in the direction of translation (or orthogonal to it). A dispersive, nonlocal, nonlinear wave equation governs the spatial evolution of bottom velocity.

The eigenvalue problem for solitary waves of a boussinesq equation, via a generalization of the rouché theorem

We consider the study of an eigenvalue problem obtained by linearizing about solitary wave solutions of a Boussinesq equation. Instead of using the technique of Evans functions as done by Pego and Weinstein in [R. Pego and M. Weinstein, Convective Linear Stability of Solitary Waves for Boussinesq equation. AMS, 99, 311–375] for this particular problem, we perform Fourier analysis to characterize solutions of the eigenvalue problem in terms of a multiplier operator and use the strong relationship between the eigenvalue problem for the linearized Boussinesq equation and the eigenvalue problem associated with the linearization about solitary wave solutions of a special form of the KdV equation. By using a generalization of the Rouché Theorem and the asymptotic behavior of the Fourier symbol corresponding to the eigenvalues problem for the Boussinesq equation and the Fourier symbol corresponding to the eigenvalues problem for the KdV equation, we show nonexistence of eigenvalues with respect to weighted space in a planar region containing the right-half plane.

Analytic and numerical nonlinear stability/instability of solitons for a Kawahara-like model

We study orbital stability of solitary waves of least energy for a nonlinear Kawahara-type equation (Benney–Luke–Paumond) that models long water waves with small amplitude, from the analytic and numerical viewpoint. We use a second-order spectral scheme to approximate these solutions and illustrate their unstable behavior within a certain regime of wave velocity.