A center manifold application: existence of periodic travelling waves for the 2D abcd-Boussinesq system

Abstract

In this paper we study the existence of periodic travelling waves for the 2D abcd Boussinesq type system related with the three-dimensional water-wave dynamics in the weakly nonlinear long-wave regime. Small solutions that are periodic in the direction of translation form an infinite-dimensional family, by characterizing them using a center manifold reduction of infinite dimension and codimension due to the fact that at the linear level we are dealing with an ill-posed mixed-type initial-value problem. As happens for the Benney-Luke model and the KP II model for wave speed large enough and large surface tension, we show that a unique global solution exists for arbitrary small initial data for the two-component bottom velocity, specified along a single line in the direction of translation (or orthogonal to it). As a consequence of this fact, we show that the spatial evolution of bottom velocity is governed by a dispersive, nonlocal, nonlinear wave equation.