Mechanical balance laws for fully nonlinear and weakly dispersive water waves

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2016.03.001zbMATH Open1415.35010arXiv1508.05365OpenAlexW2276249255MaRDI QIDQ2000248FDOQ2000248

Dimitrios Mitsotakis, Henrik Kalisch, Zahra Khorsand

Publication date: 28 June 2019

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Serre-Green-Naghdi system is a coupled, fully nonlinear system of dispersive evolution equations which approximates the full water wave problem. The system is an extension of the well known shallow-water system to the situation where the waves are long, but not so long that dispersive effects can be neglected. In the current work, the focus is on deriving mass, momentum and energy densities and fluxes associated with the Serre-Green-Naghdi system. These quantities arise from imposing balance equations of the same asymptotic order as the evolution equations. In the case of an even bed, the conservation equations are satisfied exactly by the solutions of the Serre-Green-Naghdi system. The case of variable bathymetry is more complicated, with mass and momentum conservation satisfied exactly, and energy conservation satisfied only in a global sense. In all cases, the quantities found here reduce correctly to the corresponding counterparts in both the Boussinesq and the shallow-water scaling. One consequence of the present analysis is that the energy loss appearing in the shallow-water theory of undular bores is fully compensated by the emergence of oscillations behind the bore front. The situation is analyzed numerically by approximating solutions of the Serre-Green-Naghdi equations using a finite-element discretization coupled with an adaptive Runge-Kutta time integration scheme, and it is found that the energy is indeed conserved nearly to machine precision. As a second application, the shoaling of solitary waves on a plane beach is analyzed. It appears that the Serre-Green-Naghdi equations are capable of predicting both the shape of the free surface and the evolution of kinetic and potential energy with good accuracy in the early stages of shoaling.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05365

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawssolitary wavesdispersive shock wavesSerre system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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