On the stability of travelling waves with vorticity obtained by minimization

DOI10.1007/S00030-013-0223-4zbMATH Open1277.35283arXiv1207.7198OpenAlexW2118237788MaRDI QIDQ385572FDOQ385572

Authors: G. R. Burton, Boris Buffoni 

Publication date: 2 December 2013

Published in: NoDEA. Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We modify the approach of Burton and Toland [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. (2011)] to show the existence of periodic surface water waves with vorticity in order that it becomes suited to a stability analysis. This is achieved by enlarging the function space to a class of stream functions that do not correspond necessarily to travelling profiles. In particular, for smooth profiles and smooth stream functions, the normal component of the velocity field at the free boundary is not required a priori to vanish in some Galilean coordinate system. Travelling periodic waves are obtained by a direct minimisation of a functional that corresponds to the total energy and that is therefore preserved by the time-dependent evolutionary problem (this minimisation appears in Burton and Toland after a first maximisation). In addition, we not only use the circulation along the upper boundary as a constraint, but also the total horizontal impulse (the velocity becoming a Lagrange multiplier). This allows us to preclude parallel flows by choosing appropriately the values of these two constraints and the sign of the vorticity. By stability, we mean conditional energetic stability of the set of minimizers as a whole, the perturbations being spatially periodic of given period.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7198

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zbMATH Keywords

energy minimizationhydrodynamic stabilityvorticityrearrangementsurface wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Stability and instability of nonparallel flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E09)

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