In this note, we report on recent findings concerning the spectral and nonlinear stability of periodic traveling wave solutions of hyperbolic-parabolic systems of balance laws, as applied to the St. Venant equations of shallow water flow down an incline. We begin by introducing a natural set of spectral stability assumptions, motivated by considerations from the Whitham averaged equations, and outline the recent proof yielding nonlinear stability under these conditions. We then turn to an analytical and numerical investigation of the verification of these spectral stability assumptions. While spectral instability is shown analytically to hold in both the Hopf and homoclinic limits, our numerical studies indicates spectrally stable periodic solutions of intermediate period. A mechanism for this moderate-amplitude stabilization is proposed in terms of numerically observed “metastability" of the the limiting homoclinic orbits.
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author = {Barker, Blake and Johnson, Mathew A. and Noble, Pascal and Rodrigues, L.Miguel and Zumbrun, Kevin},
title = {Whitham averaged equations and modulational stability of periodic traveling waves of a hyperbolic-parabolic balance law},
journal = {Journ\'ees \'equations aux d\'eriv\'ees partielles},
year = {2010},
pages = {1-24},
doi = {10.5802/jedp.60},
language = {en},
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Barker, Blake; Johnson, Mathew A.; Noble, Pascal; Rodrigues, L.Miguel; Zumbrun, Kevin. Whitham averaged equations and modulational stability of periodic traveling waves of a hyperbolic-parabolic balance law. Journées équations aux dérivées partielles, (2010), pp. 1-24. doi : 10.5802/jedp.60. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/JEDP_2010____A3_0/
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