%0 Report %D 2010 %T Numerical Solution of the Small Dispersion Limit of the Camassa-Holm and Whitham Equations and Multiscale Expansions %A Simonetta Abenda %A Tamara Grava %A Christian Klein %X The small dispersion limit of solutions to the Camassa-Holm (CH) equation is characterized by the appearance of a zone of rapid modulated oscillations. An asymptotic description of these oscillations is given, for short times, by the one-phase solution to the CH equation, where the branch points of the corresponding elliptic curve depend on the physical coordinates via the Whitham equations. We present a conjecture for the phase of the asymptotic solution. A numerical study of this limit for smooth hump-like initial data provides strong evidence for the validity of this conjecture.... %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3840 %1 487 %2 Mathematics %3 Mathematical Physics %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2010-02-05T10:20:56Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\n0909.1020v1.pdf: 613403 bytes, checksum: be892250a6d664faff51d74b323fea67 (MD5)