Existence and conditional energetic stability of solitary gravity–capillary water waves with constant vorticity

DOI10.1017/S0308210515000116zbMATH Open1327.76029arXiv1307.0028OpenAlexW3102662499MaRDI QIDQ3452145FDOQ3452145

Erik Wahlén, Mark D. Groves

Publication date: 18 November 2015

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present an existence and stability theory for gravity-capillary solitary waves with constant vorticity on the surface of a body of water of finite depth. Exploiting a rotational version of the classical variational principle, we prove the existence of a minimiser of the wave energy $mathcalH$ subject to the constraint $mathcalI=2mu$, where $mathcalI$ is the wave momentum and $0<mull1$. Since $mathcalH$ and $mathcalI$ are both conserved quantities a standard argument asserts the stability of the set $D_{m}u$ of minimisers: solutions starting near $D_{m}u$ remain close to $D_{m}u$ in a suitably defined energy space over their interval of existence. In the applied mathematics literature solitary water waves of the present kind are described by solutions of a Korteweg-deVries equation (for strong surface tension) or a nonlinear Schr"{o}dinger equation (for weak surface tension). We show that the waves detected by our variational method converge (after an appropriate rescaling) to solutions of the appropriate model equation as $mudownarrow0$

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0028

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zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationssolitary wavesvorticitywater waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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