%0 Journal Article %T Comparison of KP and BBM-KP Models %A Gideon P. Daspan %A Michael M. Tom %J International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences %D 2007 %I Hindawi Publishing Corporation %R 10.1155/2007/37274 %X It is shown that the solutions of the pure initial-value problem for the KP and regularized KP equations are the same, within the order of accuracy attributable to either, on the time scale 0≤t≤ε−3/2, during which nonlinear and dispersive effects may accumulate to make an order-one relative difference to the wave profiles. %U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmms/2007/037274/abs/