%0 Report %D 2007 %T Numerical study of a multiscale expansion of KdV and Camassa-Holm equation %A Tamara Grava %A Christian Klein %X We study numerically solutions to the Korteweg-de Vries and Camassa-Holm equation close to the breakup of the corresponding solution to the dispersionless equation. The solutions are compared with the properly rescaled numerical solution to a fourth order ordinary differential equation, the second member of the Painlev\\\\\\\'e I hierarchy. It is shown that this solution gives a valid asymptotic description of the solutions close to breakup. We present a detailed analysis of the situation and compare the Korteweg-de Vries solution quantitatively with asymptotic solutions obtained via the solution of the Hopf and the Whitham equations. We give a qualitative analysis for the Camassa-Holm equation %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2527 %1 1591 %2 Mathematics %3 Mathematical Physics %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2007-12-12T12:39:23Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\n0702038v1.pdf: 367188 bytes, checksum: f88c96f6ff42a7c5378de0118866d4bb (MD5)