Circular, stationary profiles emerging in unidirectional abrasion

DOI10.1007/S11004-013-9487-9MaRDI QIDQ887528zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gábor Domokos, András Sipos, Gary W. Gibbons

Publication date 26 October 2015

Published in Mathematical Geosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1589

zbMATH Keywords

bedrock abrasionBloore equationsolitonic behavior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Micromechanics of solids (74M25)

Abstract: We describe a PDE model of bedrock abrasion by impact of moving particles and show that by assuming unidirectional impacts the modification of a geometrical PDE due to Bloore exhibits circular arcs as solitary profiles. We demonstrate the existence and stability of these stationary, travelling shapes by numerical experiments based on finite difference approximations. Our simulations show that, depending on initial profile shape and other parameters, these circular profiles may evolve via long transients which, in a geological setting, may appear as non-circular stationary profiles.

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