Stability of solitary traveling waves of moderate amplitude with non-zero boundary

Abstract

Abstract Considered here is the stability problem of solitary traveling waves with non-zero boundary of an equation describing the free surface waves of moderate amplitude in the shallow water regime. We employ a transform to convert the stability problem of solitary waves with non-zero boundary to the same one of solitary waves vanishing at infinity for a new equation, such that the abstract stability theorem proposed by Grillakis et al. can work on it. We then show that the solitary traveling waves with non-zero boundary are orbitally stable under certain parameter conditions.

Keywords

• moderate amplitude
• solitary traveling waves with non-zero boundary
• orbital stability