Stabilization of a Boussinesq system of KdV-KdV type

A family of Boussinesq systems has recently been proposed by Bona, Chen, and Saut in [J.L. Bona, M. Chen, J.-C. Saut, Boussinesq equations and other systems for small-amplitude long waves in nonlinear dispersive media. I. Derivation and linear theory, J. Nonlinear Sci. 12 (4) (2002) 283–318] to describe the two-way propagation of small-amplitude gravity waves on the surface of water in a canal. In this paper, we investigate the boundary stabilization of the Boussinesq system of KdV–KdV type posed on a bounded domain. We design a two-parameter family of feedback laws for which the solutions issuing from small data are globally defined and exponentially decreasing in the energy space. c © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.