Variational existence theory for hydroelastic solitary waves

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2016.10.004zbMATH Open1348.76036arXiv1604.04459OpenAlexW2341846532MaRDI QIDQ338060FDOQ338060

Erik Wahlén, Mark D. Groves, Benedikt Hewer

Publication date: 3 November 2016

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper presents an existence theory for solitary waves at the interface between a thin ice sheet (modelled using the Cosserat theory of hyperelastic shells) and an ideal fluid (of finite depth and in irrotational motion) for sufficiently large values of a dimensionless parameter $gamma$. We establish the existence of a minimiser of the wave energy $mathcalE$ subject to the constraint $mathcalI=2mu$, where $mathcalI$ is the horizontal impulse and $0<mull1$, and show that the solitary waves detected by our variational method converge (after an appropriate rescaling) to solutions of he nonlinear Schr"{o}dinger equation with cubic focussing nonlinearity as $mudownarrow0$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04459

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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• Lectures on nonlinear hyperbolic differential equations
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• Well-posedness of two-dimensional hydroelastic waves
• Computations of fully nonlinear hydroelastic solitary waves on deep water

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