Asymptotic behavior of solutions to the generalizedcubic double dispersion equation in one space dimension

Abstract

We study the initial value problem for the generalized cubic double dispersion equation in one space dimension. We establish a nonlinear approximation result to our global solutions that was obtained in [6]. Moreover, we show that as time tends to infinity, the solution approaches the superposition of nonlinear diffusion waves which are given explicitly in terms of the self-similar solution of the viscous Burgers equation. The proof is based on the semigroup argument combined with the analysis of wave decomposition.