The Camassa-Holm equation as the long-wave limit of the improved Boussinesq equation and of a class of  nonlocal wave equations

H. A.  Erbay; S.  Erbay; A.  Erkip

doi:10.3934/dcds.2016066

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2016, Volume 36, Issue 11: 6101-6116. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016066

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The Camassa-Holm equation as the long-wave limit of the improved Boussinesq equation and of a class of nonlocal wave equations

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Department of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Ozyegin University, Cekmekoy 34794, Istanbul
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Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Tuzla 34956, Istanbul

Received: October 31, 2015

Revised: November 30, 2015

Published: May 2017

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In the present study we prove rigorously that in the long-wave limit, the unidirectional solutions of a class of nonlocal wave equations to which the improved Boussinesq equation belongs are well approximated by the solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation over a long time scale. This general class of nonlocal wave equations model bidirectional wave propagation in a nonlocally and nonlinearly elastic medium whose constitutive equation is given by a convolution integral. To justify the Camassa-Holm approximation we show that approximation errors remain small over a long time interval. To be more precise, we obtain error estimates in terms of two independent, small, positive parameters $\epsilon$ and $\delta$ measuring the effect of nonlinearity and dispersion, respectively. We further show that similar conclusions are also valid for the lower order approximations: the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony approximation and the Korteweg-de Vries approximation.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q53, 35Q74; Secondary: 74J30, 35C20.

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