Evolution of interface singularities in shallow water equations with variable bottom topography
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Methods of ordinary differential equations applied to PDEs (35A24) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Solutions to PDEs in closed form (35C05) Self-similar solutions to PDEs (35C06) Wave equation (35L05) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)
Abstract: Wave front propagation with non-trivial bottom topography is studied within the formalism of hyperbolic long wave models. Evolution of non-smooth initial data is examined, and in particular the splitting of singular points and their short time behaviour is described. In the opposite limit of longer times, the local analysis of wavefronts is used to estimate the gradient catastrophe formation and how this is influenced by the topography. The limiting cases when the free surface intersects the bottom boundary, belonging to the so-called "physical" and "non-physical" vacuum classes, are examined. Solutions expressed by power series in the spatial variable lead to a hierarchy of ordinary differential equations for the time-dependent series coefficients, which are shown to reveal basic differences between the two vacuum cases: for non-physical vacuums, the equations of the hierarchy are recursive and linear past the first two pairs, while for physical vacuums the hierarchy is non-recursive, fully coupled and nonlinear. The former case may admit solutions that are free of singularities for nonzero time intervals, while the latter is shown to develop non-standard velocity shocks instantaneously. We show that truncation to finite dimensional systems and polynomial solutions is in general only possible for the case of a quadratic bottom profile. In this case the system's evolution can reduce to, and is completely described by, a low dimensional dynamical system for the time-dependent coefficients. This system encapsulates all the nonlinear properties of the solution for general power series initial data, and in particular governs the loss of regularity in finite times at the dry point. For the special case of parabolic bottom topographies, an exact, self-similar solution class is introduced and studied to illustrate via closed form expressions the general results.
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