Global Stabilization for the BBM-KP equations on R2
F. A. Gallego, V. H. Gonzalez Martinez, J. C. Muñoz Grajales
TL;DR
The paper addresses exponential stabilization for the BBM-KP equation on $\mathbb{R}^2$ with localized damping. It develops global well-posedness and a unique continuation property, leverages a compactness-uniqueness framework to derive a local and then global observability inequality, and proves global uniform exponential decay of the energy in $H^1_x(\mathbb{R}^2)$ for $p=1$. The authors complement the analysis with a spectral-finite-difference numerical scheme that validates the theory and reveals exponential decay in simulations, including nonlinear regimes. The work advances understanding of long-time behavior for dispersive two-dimensional models on unbounded domains under localized damping and provides a practical numerical approach to study these dynamics, while outlining several open problems for future work.
Abstract
In this paper, we present results on the energy decay of the BBM-KP equations (I and II) posed on $\R^2$ with localized damping. This model offers an alternative to the KP equations, analogous to how the regularized long-wave equation relates to the classical Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. We show that the energy associated with the Cauchy problem decays exponentially when a localized dissipative mechanism is present in a subdomain. Finally, we validate the theoretical results on the exponential stabilization of solutions to the BBM-KP equations with damping through numerical experiments using a spectral-finite difference scheme.
