Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 2021 (2021), No. 103, pp. 1-14. Title: Curvature blow-up for the periodic CH-mCH-Novikov equation Authors: Min Zhu. (Nanjing Forestry Univ., Nanjing, China) Ying Wang (Univ.of Electronic Science and Tech., Chengdu, China) Lei Chen (Nanjing Forestry Univ., Nanjing, China) Abstract: We study the CH-mCH-Novikov equation with cubic nonlinearity, which is derived by an asymptotic method from the classical shallow water theory. This model can be related to three different important shallow water equations: CH equation, mCH equation and Novikov equation. We show the curvature blow-up of the CH-mCH-Novikov equation by the method of characteristics and conserved quantities to the Riccati-type differential inequality. Submitted June 19, 2021. Published December 27, 2021. Math Subject Classifications: 35B44, 35G25. Key Words: Camassa-Holm equation; modified Camassa-Holm equation; asymptotic method; Novikov equation; curvature blow-up.