Stability of solitary waves of a fifth-order water wave model

We consider the stability of solitary waves of a class of 5th order KdV equations. It is known that their stability is determined by the second derivative of a function of the wave speed d ( c ) . We perform a detailed investigation of the properties of this function, both analytically and numerically. For a class of homogeneous nonlinearities, we precisely determine the regions of wave speeds for which the solitary waves are stable or unstable.