The Cauchy problem on large time for a Boussinesq-Peregrine equation with large topography variations

Abstract: We prove in this paper a long time existence result for a modified Boussinesq-Peregrine equation in one dimension, describing the motion of Water Waves in shallow water, in the case of a non flat bottom. We first give a local existence result for the original Boussinesq Peregrine equation as derived by Boussinesq and Peregrine in all dimensions. We then introduce a new model which has formally the same precision as the Boussinesq-Peregrine equation, and give a local existence result in all dimensions. We finally prove a long time existence result in dimension 1 for this new equation, without any assumption on the smallness of the bathymetry, which is an improvement of the long time existence result for the Boussinesq systems in the case of flat bottom.