The Kawahara and modified Kawahara equations are fifth-order KdV type equations and have been derived to model many physical phenomena such as gravitycapillary waves and magneto-sound propagation in plasmas. This paper establishes the local well-posedness of the initial-value problem for Kawahara equation in H(R) with s > − 4 and the local well-posedness for the modified Kawahara equation in H(...

The Kawahara and modified Kawahara equations are fifth-order KdV type equations and have been derived to model many physical phenomena such as gravitycapillary waves and magneto-sound propagation in plasmas. This paper establishes the local well-posedness of the initial-value problem for Kawahara equation in H(R) with s > − 4 and the local well-posedness for the modified Kawahara equation in H(...

In this paper, we apply the Exp-function method to Rosenau-Kawahara and Rosenau-KdV equations. Rosenau-Kawahara equation is the combination of the Rosenau and standard Kawahara equations and Rosenau-KdV equation is the combination of the Rosenau and standard KdV equations. These equations are nonlinear partial differential equations (NPDE) which play an important role in mathematical physics. E...

Exact solutions of the Kawahara equation by Assas [L.M.B. Assas, J. Com. Appl. Math. 233 (2009) 97–102] are analyzed. It is shown that all solutions do not satisfy the Kawahara equation and consequently all nontrivial solutions by Assas are wrong.

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of the modified Kawahara equation. By using the Fourier restriction norm method introduced by Bourgain, and using the I-method as well as the L 2 conservation law, we prove that the modified Kawahara equation is globally well-posed for the initial data in the Sobolev space H s (R) with s > − 3 22 .

Exact solutions of the Kawahara equation by Assas [L.M.B. Assas, J. Com. Appl. Math. 233 (2009) 97–102] are analyzed. It is shown that all solutions do not satisfy the Kawahara equation and consequently all nontrivial solutions by Assas are wrong. Recently Assas in [1] looked for exact solutions of the Kawahara equation using the Exp function method. This equation can be written as ut + α uux +...

In this paper, we study a class of distributed parameter control system described by the Kawahara equation posed on a periodic domain T (a unit circle in the plane) with an internal control acting on an arbitrary small nonempty subdomain of T. Aided by the Bourgain smoothing property of the Kawahara equation on a periodic domain, we show that the system is locally exactly controllable and expon...

In this paper we establish the nonlinear stability of solitary traveling-wave solutions for the Kawahara-KdV equation ut + uux + uxxx − γ1uxxxxx = 0, and the modified Kawahara-KdV equation ut + 3u 2ux + uxxx − γ2uxxxxx = 0, where γi ∈ R is a positive number when i = 1, 2. The main approach used to determine the stability of solitary traveling-waves will be the theory developed by Albert in [1].

The Kawahara equation is a higher-order Korteweg-de Vries equation with an additional fifth order derivative term. It was derived by Hasimoto as a model of capillary-gravity waves in an infinitely long canal over a flat bottom in a long wave regime when the Bond number is nearly one third. In this paper, we give a mathematically rigorous justification of this modeling and show that the solution...

We study the stabilization of global solutions of the Kawahara (K) equation in a bounded interval, under the effect of a localized damping mechanism. The Kawahara equation is a model for small amplitude long waves. Using multiplier techniques and compactness arguments we prove the exponential decay of the solutions of the (K) model. The proof requires of a unique continuation theorem and the sm...