In this article, we study the self-similar solutions of the 2-component
Degasperis-Procesi water system:% [c]{c}%
\rho_{t}+k_{2}u\rho_{x}+(k_{1}+k_{2})\rho u_{x}=0
u_{t}-u_{xxt}+4uu_{x}-3u_{x}u_{xx}-uu_{xxx}+k_{3}\rho\rho_{x}=0. By the
separation method, we can obtain a class of self-similar solutions,% [c]{c}%
\rho(t,x)=\max(\frac{f(\eta)}{a(4t)^{(k_{1}+k_{2})/4}},\text{}0),\text{}u(t,x)=\frac{\overset{\cdot}{a}(4t)}{a(4t)}x
\overset{\cdot\cdot}{a}(s)-\frac{\xi}{4a(s)^{\kappa}}=0,\text{}a(0)=a_{0}%
\neq0,\text{}\overset{\cdot}{a}(0)=a_{1}
f(\eta)=\frac{k_{3}}{\xi}\sqrt{-\frac{\xi}{k_{3}}\eta^{2}+(\frac{\xi}{k_{3}}\alpha)
^{2}}% where η=a(s)1/4x with s=4t;κ=2k1+k2−1,α≥0,ξ<0, a0 and a1 are constants. which the
local or global behavior can be determined by the corresponding Emden equation.
The results are very similar to the one obtained for the 2-component
Camassa-Holm equations. Our analytical solutions could provide concrete
examples for testing the validation and stabilities of numerical methods for
the systems. With the characteristic line method, blowup phenomenon for
k3≥0 is also studied.Comment: 13 Pages, Key Words: 2-Component Degasperis-Procesi, Shallow Water
System, Analytical Solutions, Blowup, Global, Self-Similar, Separation
Method, Construction of Solutions, Moving Boundary, 2-Component Camassa-Holm
Equation