Oscillatory and regularized shock waves for a dissipative Peregrine–Boussinesq system

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Abstract: We consider a dissipative, dispersive system of Boussinesq type, describing wave phenomena in settings where dissipation has an effect. Examples include undular bores in rivers or oceans where dissipation due to turbulence is important for their description. We show that the model system admits traveling wave solutions known as diffusive-dispersive shock waves, and we categorize them into oscillatory and regularized shock waves depending on the relationship between dispersion and dissipation. Comparison of numerically computed solutions with laboratory data suggests that undular bores are accurately described in a wide range of phase speeds. Undular bores are often described using the original Peregrine system which, even if not possessing traveling waves tends to provide accurate approximations for appropriate time scales. To explain this phenomenon, we show that the error between the solutions of the dissipative versus the non-dissipative Peregrine systems are proportional to the dissipation times the observational time.









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