In this paper, we prove several results on the exponential decay in $L^{2}$ norm of the KdV equation on the real line with localized dampings. First, for the linear KdV equation, the exponential decay holds if and only if the averages of the damping coefficient on all intervals of a fixed length have a positive lower bound. Moreover, under the same damping condition, the exponential decay holds for the (nonlinear) KdV equation with small initial data. Finally, with the aid of certain properties of propagation of regularity in Bourgain spaces for solutions of the associated linear system and the unique continuation property, the exponential decay for the KdV equation with large data holds if the damping coefficient has a positive lower bound on $E$, where $E$ is equidistributed over the real line and the complement $E^{c}$ has a finite Lebesgue measure.

In this paper, we consider a fully discrete local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) finite element method for a time-fractional Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. The method is based on a finite difference scheme in time and local discontinuous Galerkin methods in space. We show that our scheme is unconditionally stable and convergent through analysis. Numerical examples are shown to illustrate the efficiency and accuracy of our scheme.

A simple explicit numerical scheme is proposed for the solution of the Gardner–Ostrovskyequation (ut + cux + α uux + α1u2ux + βuxxx)x = γuwhich is also known as the extended rotation-modified Korteweg–de Vries(KdV) equation. This equation is used for the description of internal oceanic wavesaffected by Earth’ rotation. Particular versions of this equation with zero some ofcoefficients, α, α1, β, orγ are also known in numerous applications. The proposed numericalscheme is a further development of the well-known finite-difference scheme earlier usedfor the solution of the KdV equation. The scheme is of the second order accuracy both ontemporal and spatial variables. The stability analysis of the scheme is presented forinfinitesimal perturbations. The conditions for the calculations with the appropriateaccuracy have been found. Examples of calculations with the periodic boundary conditionsare presented to illustrate the robustness of the proposed scheme.

This work is devoted to prove the exponential decay for the energyof solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation in a bounded intervalwith a localized damping term. Following the method in Menzala (2002)which combines energy estimates, multipliers and compactnessarguments the problem is reduced to prove the unique continuation ofweak solutions. In Menzala (2002) the case where solutions vanish on aneighborhood of both extremes of the bounded interval where equationholds was solved combining the smoothing results by T. Kato (1983)and earlier results on unique continuation of smooth solutions byJ.C. Saut and B. Scheurer (1987). In this article we address thegeneral case and prove the unique continuation property in twosteps. We first prove, using multiplier techniques, that solutionsvanishing on any subinterval are necessarily smooth. We then applythe existing results on unique continuation of smooth solutions.