Exact Traveling Wave Solutions and Bifurcations for a Shallow Water Equation Modeling Surface Waves of Moderate Amplitude

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the traveling wave solutions for a shallow water equation. The corresponding traveling wave system is a singular planar dynamical system with one singular straight line. On the basis of the theory of the singular traveling wave systems, we obtain the bifurcations of phase portraits and explicit exact parametric representations for solitary wave solutions and smooth periodic wave solutions, as well as periodic peakon solutions. We show the existence of compacton solutions of the equation under different parameter conditions.