Journal of Systems Science and Complexity

, Volume 20, Issue 2, pp 284–292 | Cite as

Forced Oscillations of a Class of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations and their Stability

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Abstract

It has been observed in laboratory experiments that when nonlinear dispersive waves are forced periodically from one end of undisturbed stretch of the medium of propagation, the signal eventually becomes temporally periodic at each spatial point. The observation has been confirmed mathematically in the context of the damped Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation and the damped Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation. In this paper we intend to show the same results hold for the pure KdV equation (without the damping terms) posed on a finite domain. Consideration is given to the initial-boundary-value problem
$$\left\{ {\begin{aligned} & u_t +u_x =uu_x + & u_{xxx} =0,\quad u\left( {x,0} \right)=\phi (x),\quad & 0 < x< 1, t> 0, \\ & u(0,t)=h(t),\quad & u(1,t)=0,\quad u_x (1,t)=0,\quad & t> 0. \\ \end{aligned}} \right.$$
(*)
It is shown that if the boundary forcing h is periodic with small ampitude, then the small amplitude solution u of (*) becomes eventually time-periodic. Viewing (*) (without the initial condition) as an infinite-dimensional dynamical system in the Hilbert space L 2 (0,1), we also demonstrate that for a given periodic boundary forcing with small amplitude, the system (*) admits a (locally) unique limit cycle, or forced oscillation, which is locally exponentially stable. A list of open problems are included for the interested readers to conduct further investigations.

Keywords

Forced oscillation stability the BBM equation the KdV equation time-periodic solution 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Mathematical SciencesUniversity of CincinnatiCincinnatiUSA

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