# Solitary wave solutions of a Whitham-Boussinesq system

## TL;DR

This paper proves the existence and describes the asymptotic behavior of solitary wave solutions for a bidirectional Whitham system modeling surface water waves, using variational methods and concentration-compactness techniques.

## Contribution

It provides the first rigorous existence proof and asymptotic analysis of solitary waves for this specific Whitham-Boussinesq system, extending previous numerical and well-posedness results.

## Key findings

- Existence of solitary wave solutions established.
- Asymptotic description of these solutions provided.
- Methodology applicable to related Boussinesq systems.

## Abstract

The travelling wave problem for a particular bidirectional Whitham system modelling surface water waves is under consideration. This system firstly appeared in [Dinvay, Dutykh, Kalisch 2018], where it was numerically shown to be stable and a good approximation to the incompressible Euler equations. In subsequent papers [Dinvay 2018], [Dinvay, Selberg, Tesfahun 2019] the initial-value problem was studied and well-posedness in classical Sobolev spaces was proved. Here we prove existence of solitary wave solutions and provide their asymptotic description. Our proof relies on a variational approach and a concentration-compactness argument. The main difficulties stem from the fact that in the considered Euler-Lagrange equation we have a non-local operator of positive order appearing both in the linear and non-linear parts. Our approach allows us to obtain solitary waves for a particular Boussinesq system as well.