The shoreline problem for the one-dimensional shallow water and Green-Naghdi equations

DOI10.5802/JEP.76zbMATH Open1406.35490arXiv1710.03651OpenAlexW2963248810WikidataQ129712960 ScholiaQ129712960MaRDI QIDQ4559770FDOQ4559770

Authors: David Lannes, Guy Métivier 

Publication date: 4 December 2018

Published in: Journal de l’École polytechnique — Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Green-Naghdi equations are a nonlinear dispersive perturbation of the nonlinear shallow water equations, more precise by one order of approximation. These equations are commonly used for the simulation of coastal flows, and in particular in regions where the water depth vanishes (the shoreline). The local well-posedness of the Green-Naghdi equations (and their justification as an asymptotic model for the water waves equations) has been extensively studied, but always under the assumption that the water depth is bounded from below by a positive constant. The aim of this article is to remove this assumption. The problem then becomes a free-boundary problem since the position of the shoreline is unknown and driven by the solution itself. For the (hyperbolic) nonlinear shallow water equation, this problem is very related to the vacuum problem for a compressible gas. The Green-Naghdi equation include additional nonlinear, dispersive and topography terms with a complex degenerate structure at the boundary. In particular, the degeneracy of the topography terms makes the problem loose its quasilinear structure and become fully nonlinear. Dispersive smoothing also degenerates and its behavior at the boundary can be described by an ODE with regular singularity. These issues require the development of new tools, some of which of independent interest such as the study of the mixed initial boundary value problem for dispersive perturbations of characteristic hyperbolic systems, elliptic regularization with respect to conormal derivatives, or general Hardy-type inequalities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03651

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zbMATH Keywords

Green-Naghdi equationsdegenerate elliptic equationshorelinedegenerate nonlinear dispersive equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Degenerate hyperbolic equations (35L80) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) PDEs in connection with geophysics (35Q86) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Initial-boundary value problems for systems of nonlinear first-order PDEs (35F61)

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