Corrections to the KdV Approximation for Water Waves

DOI10.1137/S0036141004444202MaRDI QIDQ5470596zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Douglas Wright

Publication date 31 May 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406403

zbMATH Keywords

linearized KdV equationsolitary waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25)

Abstract: In order to investigate corrections to the common KdV approximation for surface water waves in a canal, we derive modulation equations for the evolution of long wavelength initial data. We work in Lagrangian coordinates. The equations which govern corrections to the KdV approximation consist of linearized and inhomogeneous KdV equations plus an inhomogeneous wave equation. These equations are explicitly solvable and we prove estimates showing that they do indeed give a significantly better approximation than the KdV equation alone.

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