The KdV equation on the half-line: time-periodicity and mass transport

DOI10.1137/19M1271981MaRDI QIDQ5218958zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. Lenells, Jerry L. Bona

Publication date 6 March 2020

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05053

zbMATH Keywords

initial-boundary-value problemKorteweg-de Vries equationwater waveswave tank experiments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30) Integral representations of solutions to PDEs (35C15) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) PDEs in connection with geophysics (35Q86) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Inverse spectral and scattering methods for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K15) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Experimental work for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-05)

Abstract: The work presented here emanates from questions arising from experimental observations of the propagation of surface water waves. The experiments in question featured a periodically moving wavemaker located at one end of a flume that generated unidirectional waves of relatively small amplitude and long wavelength when compared with the undisturbed depth. It was observed that the wave profile at any point down the channel very quickly became periodic in time with the same period as that of the wavemaker. One of the questions dealt with here is whether or not such a property holds for model equations for such waves. In the present discussion, this is examined in the context of the Korteweg-de Vries equation using the recently developed version of the inverse scattering theory for boundary value problems put forward by Fokas and his collaborators. It turns out that the Korteweg-de Vries equation does possess the properly that solutions at a fixed point down the channel have the property of asymptotic periodicity in time when forced periodically at the boundary. However, a more subtle issue to do with conservation of mass fails to hold at the second order in a small parameter which is the typical wave amplitude divided by the undisturbed depth.

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