A kinematic conservation law in free surface flow

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/28/6/1805zbMATH Open1382.76025arXiv1410.7246OpenAlexW3098871636MaRDI QIDQ5264471FDOQ5264471

S. L. Gavrilyuk, Zahra Khors, Henrik Kalisch

Publication date: 27 July 2015

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Green-Naghdi system is used to model highly nonlinear weakly dispersive waves propagating at the surface of a shallow layer of a perfect fluid. The system has three associated conservation laws which describe the conservation of mass, momentum, and energy due to the surface wave motion. In addition, the system features a fourth conservation law which is the main focus of this note. It is shown how this fourth conservation law can be interpreted in terms of a concrete kinematic quantity connected to the evolution of the tangent velocity at the free surface. The equation for the tangent velocity is first derived for the full Euler equations in both two and three dimensional flows, and in both cases, it gives rise to an approximate balance law in the Green-Naghdi theory which turns out to be identical to the fourth conservation law for this system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7246

zbMATH Keywords

Green-Naghdi equationssurface wavesfully nonlinear systemconservetion laws

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Free-surface potential flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B07)

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