Continuous dependence on the density for stratified steady water waves

DOI10.1007/S00205-015-0906-6zbMATH Open1333.35184arXiv1408.5030OpenAlexW3099935163MaRDI QIDQ5962872FDOQ5962872

Authors: Robin Ming Chen, Samuel Walsh 

Publication date: 25 February 2016

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There are two distinct regimes commonly used to model traveling waves in stratified water: continuous stratification, where the density is smooth throughout the fluid, and layer-wise continuous stratification, where the fluid consists of multiple immiscible strata. The former is the more physically accurate description, but the latter is frequently more amenable to analysis and computation. By the conservation of mass, the density is constant along the streamlines of the flow; the stratification can therefore be specified by prescribing the value of the density on each streamline. We call this the streamline density function. Our main result states that, for every smoothly stratified periodic traveling wave in a certain small-amplitude regime, there is an $L^{i}nfty$ neighborhood of its streamline density function such that, for any piecewise smooth streamline density function in that neighborhood, there is a corresponding traveling wave solution. Moreover, the mapping from streamline density function to wave is Lipschitz continuous in a certain function space framework. As this neighborhood includes piecewise smooth densities with arbitrarily many jump discontinues, this theorem provides a rigorous justification for the ubiquitous practice of approximating a smoothly stratified wave by a layered one. We also discuss some applications of this result to the study of the qualitative features of such waves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5030

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zbMATH Keywords

traveling wavesstratified water

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70)

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