The dynamical property of a nonlinear shallow water wave equation with inhomogeneous boundary conditions

Abstract

A nonlinear shallow water wave equation containing the Fornberg–Whitham model is considered. The phase portrait analytical technique is employed to establish the existence of the smooth, peaked and cusped solitary wave solutions of the equation under inhomogeneous boundary conditions. Asymptotic and numerical analysis illustrates the dynamical features for the smooth, peaked and cusped solitary wave solutions. Our results are helpful to further understand the dynamical tendency of the solutions when the space variable tends to positive or negative infinite.