On some linearized problems of shallow water flows. (Q636990)

The so-called Saint-Venant equations governing shallow water flows are considered. The purpose of this paper is to give a mathematical analysis of two linearized problems. The first one concerns the classical linearized Saint-Venant problem, while the second one deals with the water quality problem, i.e. the evolution of a concentration of products in a flow solution of the first problem. To this purpose, the theory of semigroups of operators on the Hilbert space is used.