Group and phase velocities in the free-surface visco-potential flow: new kind of boundary layer induced instability

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2009.07.029zbMATH Open1233.76043arXiv0810.4697OpenAlexW1963580177MaRDI QIDQ665301FDOQ665301

Authors: Denys Dutykh 

Publication date: 5 March 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Water wave propagation can be attenuated by various physical mechanisms. One of the main sources of wave energy dissipation lies in boundary layers. The present work is entirely devoted to thorough analysis of the dispersion relation of the novel visco-potential formulation. Namely, in this study we relax all assumptions of the weak dependence of the wave frequency on time. As a result, we have to deal with complex integro-differential equations that describe transient behaviour of the phase and group velocities. Using numerical computations, we show several snapshots of these important quantities at different times as functions of the wave number. Good qualitative agreement with previous study [Dutykh2009] is obtained. Thus, we validate in some sense approximations made anteriorly. There is an unexpected conclusion of this study. According to our computations, the bottom boundary layer creates disintegrating modes in the group velocity. In the same time, the imaginary part of the phase velocity remains negative for all times. This result can be interpreted as a new kind of instability which is induced by the bottom boundary layer effect.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4697

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zbMATH Keywords

dissipationviscosityfree-surface flowsbottom boundary layervisco-potential flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Free-surface potential flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B07)

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