A non-homogeneous boundary value problem for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation posed in a finite interval

Abstract

This paper studies the initial boundary value problem (IBVP) for the dispersive Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation posed in a finite interval (0, L) with non-homogeneous boundary conditions. It is shown that the IBVP is globally well-posed in the space Hs(0, L) for any s > −2 with the initial data in Hs(0, L) and the boundary value data belonging to some appropriate spaces. In addition, the IBVP is demonstrated to be ill-posed in the space Hs(0, L) for any s < −2 in the sense that the corresponding solution map fails to be in C2.