The square root depth wave equations

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2010.0124MaRDI QIDQ2997310zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. D. Holm, James R. Percival, C. J. Cotter

Publication date 6 May 2011

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2194, http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/vol466/issue2124/

zbMATH Keywords

water wavesnonlinear dispersive wavesmulti-layer models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Ill-posed problems for PDEs (35R25) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

Abstract: We introduce a set of coupled equations for multilayer water waves that removes the ill-posedness of the multilayer Green-Naghdi (MGN) equations in the presence of shear. The new well-posed equations are Hamiltonian and in the absence of imposed background shear they retain the same travelling wave solutions as MGN. We call the new model the Square Root Depth equations, from the modified form of their kinetic energy of vertical motion. Our numerical results show how the Square Root Depth equations model the effects of multilayer wave propagation and interaction, with and without shear.

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