Exponential asymptotics with coalescing singularities

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/28/5/1229MaRDI QIDQ5251057zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philippe H. Trinh, S. Jonathan Chapman

Publication date 22 May 2015

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.7182

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations for ordinary differential equations (34E15) Singular perturbations, turning point theory, WKB methods for ordinary differential equations (34E20) Stokes phenomena and connection problems (linear and nonlinear) for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M40) Singular perturbation problems for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (complex WKB, turning points, steepest descent) (34M60) Free-surface potential flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B07) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Ship waves (76B20)

Abstract: Problems in exponential asymptotics are typically characterized by divergence of the associated asymptotic expansion in the form of a factorial divided by a power. In this paper, we demonstrate that in certain classes of problems that involve coalescing singularities, a more general type of exponential-over-power divergence must be used. As a model example, we study the water waves produced by flow past an obstruction such as a surface-piercing ship. In the low speed or low Froude limit, the resultant water waves are exponentially small, and their formation is attributed to the singularities in the geometry of the obstruction. However, in cases where the singularities are closely spaced, the usual asymptotic theory fails. We present both a general asymptotic framework for handling such problems of coalescing singularities, and provide numerical and asymptotic results for particular examples.

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