Reflection of internal gravity waves in the form of quasi-axisymmetric beams (Q6065774)

This work is dedicated to the study of beam-type solutions for the two-dimensional Boussinesq system, which models some important incompressible flows with variable density (for example the liquid movements in the oceans). This system is governing the reflection of internal gravity waves to a flat boundary inclined at a specific angle with respect to the horizontal plane. Some important details (related with Brunt-Väisälä frequency and linear stratification assumption) are given in Section 1, together with a comparison with previous results. The approximate solution given in [\textit{R. Bianchini} et al., Anal. PDE 14, No. 1, 205--249 (2021; Zbl 1472.35286)] for a specific case contains a non-physical term that is not a consistent solution; this is using the packets of waves. The new element of the present paper is to overcome this problem. A fully consistent more accurate solution is given, by using beams, which are wave-packets spatially localized along their axis of propagation. The main result is following: ``the Leray solution to the near-critical reflection of internal waves in \(L^2 (R2^+ )\) is \(L^2\) close to a (finite) sum of (spatially localized) beam waves'' -- see Theorem 2.8. A specific quasi-axisymmetric incident beam wave is considered -- see formula (1.11) where the Laplace transform is used. The basic details concerning the linear part of the considered system are given in Section 3. The weakly nonlinear corresponding system is carefully analysed in Section 4. An interesting analysis of quadratic interactions is given in Table 1 and in the last part of this section. The triadic interactions are given in Table 2. The main mathematical tools are: the Helmholtz-Hodge decomposition (the Leray projector), a boundary layer approach, the Spectral Theorem to the inverse of the Stokes operator acting on the half plane, the weakly damped harmonic oscillator, a particular scaling procedure. The work is based on some estimates of the solution in the form of a beam wave. Very interesting details are given in Appendix A. Some useful estimations concerning complex polynomials appearing in the previous calculations are given in Appendix B. A large list of related recent papers is given in the last part.