Asymptotic behavior and symmetry of internal waves in two-layer fluids of great depth
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Asymptotic behavior and symmetry of internal waves in two-layer fluids of great depth
zbMATH Open document ID: 0859.76012
author: Yanyan Li
published in: Journal of Differential Equations
publication date: 1997-04-15T00:00:00Z
review text: A two-fluid flow bounded by a rigid horizontal bottom is considered. The upper fluid is infinite in both vertical and horizontal directions. The fluids of constant densities are immiscible, inviscid and incompressible, and the flow is two-dimensional and irrotational. The density of the lower fluid is greater than the density of the upper fluid, and the depth of the lower fluid is \(h\). It is assumed that there is a wave moving with a constant speed \(U\) at the interface and \(U>U_0= \sqrt{(1-\rho)gh}\), where \(U_0\) is the critical wave speed, \(0<\rho<1\) is the density ratio of the upper fluid to the lower fluid, and \(g\) is the constant of gravity. It is shown that if the governing Euler equations have a nontrivial solution which approaches to a supercritical equilibrium state at infinity, then the solution decays to the equilibrium exactly with the order \(O\bigl({1\over x^2}\bigr)\) for large \(x\), where \(x\) is the horizontal variable. Furthermore, the solution is symmetric. The interface is always above the equilibrium state and is monotonically decreasing for positive \(x\) and increasing for negative \(x\). The exact decay estimates are obtained using the properties of Green's function for an integro-differential equation.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76B55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35Q35
zbMATH DE Number: 933268
zbMATH Keywords: stratified flow
zbMATH Keywords: free boundary
zbMATH Keywords: wave speed
zbMATH Keywords: supercritical equilibrium state
zbMATH Keywords: decay estimates
zbMATH Keywords: Green's function
zbMATH Keywords: integro-differential equation
reviewed by: V. V. Shelukhin
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: jdeq.1996.0110
OpenAlex ID: W2016692316
DOI: 10.1006/JDEQ.1996.0110
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