Study of propagation of linear and non-linear Alfvén-gravity waves in rotating medium

Travelling waves in an incompressible, infinitely conducting, inviscid fluid of variable density are investigated under the influence of a horizontal magnetic field and Coriolis force. Periodic solutions are found in the limit of infinite vertical wave length. Phase diagrams are drawn to show the solution.     

Propagation of waves in a suspension of solid particles

A theory is developed for the propagation of waves in a suspension of elastic or rigid solid particles in a viscous or inviscid compressible fluid, using a homogenization process. We study the case where the characteristic length of the particles is small compared with the wave length. In the case of a viscous fluid, a law similar to Darcy's law for the average velocity of the suspension is established, and in the case of macroscopic homogeneity and isotropy, the propagation of a plane wave displays one dilatational, damped and dispersive wave. In the case of a barotropic inviscid fluid, the average acceleration of the suspension depends, in a linear way, on the mean pressure gradient and in the case of macroscopic homogeneity and isotropy, the propagation of a plane wave displays one dilatational, undamped and non dispersive wave.     

Numerical simulations of inviscid and viscous free‐surface flows with application to nonlinear water waves

The purpose of the present study is to establish a numerical model appropriate for solving inviscid/viscous free‐surface flows related to nonlinear water wave propagation. The viscous model presented herein is based on the Navier–Stokes equations, and the free‐surface is calculated through an arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian streamfunction‐vorticity formulation. The streamfunction field is governed by the Poisson equation, and the vorticity is obtained on the basis of the vorticity transport equation. For computing the inviscid flow the Laplace streamfunction equation is used. These equations together with the respective (appropriate) fully nonlinear free‐surface boundary conditions are solved using a finite difference method. To demonstrate the model feasibility, in the present study we first simulate collision processes of two solitary waves of different amplitudes, and compute the phenomenon of overtaking of such solitary waves. The developed model is subsequently applied to calculate (both inviscid and the viscous) flow field, as induced by passing of a solitary wave over submerged rectangular structures and rigid ripple beds. Our study provides a reasonably good understanding of the behavior of (inviscid/viscous) free‐surface flows, within the framework of streamfunction‐vorticity formulation. The successful simulation of the above‐mentioned test cases seems to suggest that the arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian/streamfunction‐vorticity formulation is a potentially powerful approach, capable of effectively solving the fully nonlinear inviscid/viscous free‐surface flow interactions. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Linear gravity waves on Maxwell fluids of finite depth

Linear surface gravity waves on Maxwell viscoelastic fluids with finite depth are studied in this paper. A dispersion equation describing the spatial decay of the gravity wave in finite depth is derived. A dimensionless memory (time) number 0 is introduced. The dispersion equation for the pure viscous fluid will be a specific case of the dispersion equation for the viscoelastic fluid as θ=0. The complex dispersion equation is numerically solved to investigate the dispersion relation. The influences of θ and water depth on the dispersion characteristics and wave decay are discussed. It is found that the role of elasticity for the Maxwell fluid is to make the surface gravity wave on the Maxwell fluid behave more like the surface gravity wave on the inviscid fluid.     

EFFECTS OF VARYING BOTTOM ON NONLINEAR SURFACE WAVES

The resonant flow of an incompressible, inviscid fluid with surface tension on varying bottoms was researched. The effects of different bottoms on the nonlinear surface waves were analyzed. The waterfall plots of the wave were drawn with Matlab according to the numerical simulation of the fKdV equation with the pseudo-spectral method. Prom the waterfall plots, the results are obtained as follows: for the convex bottom, the waves system can be viewed as a combination of the effects of forward-step forcing and backward step forcing, and these two wave systems respectively radiate upstream and downstream without mutual interaction. Nevertheless, the result for the concave bottom is contrary to the convex one. For some combined bottoms, the wave systems can be considered as the combination of positive forcing and negative forcing.     

Oscillatory line source for water waves in shear flow

The linearized water-wave radiation problem for the oscillating 2D submerged source in an inviscid shear flow with a free surface is investigated analytically. The vorticity is uniform, with zero velocity at the free surface. Then there will be at most two emitted waves, and no Doppler effects. Exact far-field waves are derived, with radiation conditions applied at infinity. An upstream wave will always exist, whereas the downstream wave exists only when the angular frequency of oscillation exceeds the vorticity. The wave radiation problem is solved also for oscillating vortex and dipoles. The amplitudes and energy fluxes are calculated.     

Solitary waves in initially stressed thin elastic tubes

In the present work, we study the propagation of non-linear waves in an initially stressed thin elastic tube filled with an inviscid fluid. Considering the physiological conditions of the arteries, in the analysis, the tube is assumed to be subjected to a uniform inner pressure P₀ and an axial stretch ratio λ_z. It is assumed that due to blood flow, a finite dynamical displacement field is superimposed on this static field and, then, the non-linear governing equations of the elastic tube are obtained. Using the reductive perturbation technique, the propagation of weakly non-linear waves in the longwave approximation is investigated. It is shown that the governing equations reduce to the Korteweg-deVries equation which admits a solitary wave solution. It is observed that the present model equations give two solitary wave solutions. The results are also discussed for some elastic materials existing in the literature.     

Inhomogeneous plane waves in compressible viscous fluids

The propagation of inhomogeneous plane waves in a compressible viscous fluid is considered. The frequency and the slowness vector are both allowed to be complex. There are seen to be two types of solutions: (a) two transverse waves, which involve no density or pressure fluctuations, (b) a longitudinal wave, which involves no fluctuations in vorticity. For each type, a propagation condition is obtained giving the (complex) squared length of the slowness vector as a function of frequency. Each depends also on the viscosities. It is seen how to recover the incompressible case as the limit in which the inviscid acoustic wave speed tends to infinity. Each wave is shown to be linearly stable for real frequencies. These waves are attenuated in space and time but nevertheless it is possible to define constant weighted mean values (over a cycle of the propagating part of the wave) of the energy density, energy flux and dissipation. The energy-dissipation equation and the propagation conditions are used to derive relationships between these constant weighted means, some of which are generalizations to compressible fluids of previously known results for incompressible fluids. Explicit expressions in terms of frequency are given for the weighted means.     

On the steady solitary-wave solution of the Green–Naghdi equations of different levels

The steady-state solitary wave solution of high-level Green–Naghdi (GN) equations is obtained by use of the Newton–Raphson method. Four aspects of solitary waves are studied: the wave speed, wave profile, velocity field and particle trajectory. A convergence study is performed for each individual case. Results of the converged model are compared with the existing laboratory experiments and other theoretical solutions for an inviscid and incompressible fluid, including the solutions of the Euler equations. Particle trajectories, predicted by the GN model, show close agreement with the laboratory measurements and provide a new approach to understanding the movement of the particles under a solitary wave. It is further shown that high-level GN equations can predict the solitary wave of the highest height.     

BIFURCATIONS OF TRAVELLING WAVE SOLUTIONS IN VARIANT BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS

The bifurcations of solitary waves and kink waves for variant Boussinesq equations are studied by using the bifurcation theory of planar dynamical systems. The bifurcation sets and the numbers of solitary waves and kink waves for the variant Boussinesq equations are presented. Several types explicit formulas of solitary waves solutions and kink waves solutions are obtained. In the end, several formulas of periodic wave solutions are presented.     

Propagation of weakly nonlinear disturbances of the interface between two layers of fluid

The dynamics of internal waves of small but finite amplitude in a two-layer fluid system bounded by rigid horizontal surfaces at bottom and top is investigated theoretically. For linear disturbances of the fluid interface the authors propose a polynomial approximation of the dispersion relation which has the same asymptotics as the exact formula in the limiting situations of very long and short waves. In the case of three-dimensional, weakly nonlinear disturbances of slowly varying shape (in the coordinate system moving with the wave) an equation like the wave equation is derived. This equation has Stokes solutions coinciding with the well-known results for infinitely deep layers. For fairly long disturbances solitary solutions of the model wave equation which fit the experimental data are determined. Novosibirsk. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No.1, pp. 125–131, January–February, 1994.     

Non-linear waves in a viscous fluid contained in an elastic tube with variable cross-section

In the present work, treating the large arteries as a thin-walled, long and circularly cylindrical, prestressed elastic tube with variable cross-section and using the reductive perturbation method, we have studied the amplitude modulation of non-linear waves in such a fluid-filled elastic tube. By considering the blood as an incompressible viscous fluid, the evolution equation is obtained as the dissipative non-linear Schrödinger equation with variable coefficients. It is shown that this type of equations admit a solitary wave solution with a variable wave speed. It is observed that, the wave speed increases with distance for narrowing tubes while it decreases for expanding tubes.     

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研究了埋置于弹性地基内充液压力管道中非线性波的传播. 假设管壁是线弹 性的,地基反力采用Winkler线性地基模型,管中流体为不可压缩理想流体. 假定系统初始 处于内压为$P_0$的静力平衡状态,动态的位移场及内压和流速的变化是叠加在静 力平衡状态上的扰动. 基于质量守恒和动量定理,建立了管壁和流体耦合作用的非 线性运动方程组; 进而用约化摄动法, 在长波近似情况下得到了KdV方程,表征 着系统有孤立波解.     

Nonlinear Viscous Flows with a Free Surface

An asymptotic solution of the problem of time evolution of a periodic wave on the surface of a viscous, infinitely deep fluid in the approximation quadratic in the wave amplitude is proposed.     

二流体系统中界面孤立波的分裂

本文讨论了二流体系统界面上内孤立波的分裂,发现上下层流体密度比对分裂成两个内孤立波的条件没有影响,此时只要孤立波从较深的流体运动到较浅的流体就会发生分裂,但分裂成二个以上孤立波的条件受密度比和上游上下层流体厚度比的影响。     

二流体系统中界面孤立波的分裂

本文讨论了二流体系统界面上内孤立波的分裂,发现上下层流体密度比对分裂成两个内孤立波的条件没有影响,此时只要孤立波从较深的流体运动到较浅的流体就会发生分裂,但分裂成二个以上孤立波的条件受密度比和上游上下层流体厚度比的影响。     

Stability of plane-parallel vibrational flow in a two-layer system

The stability of the interface separating two immiscible incompressible fluids of different densities and viscosities is considered in the case of fluids filling a cavity which performs horizontal harmonic oscillations. There exists a simple basic state which corresponds to the unperturbed interface and plane-parallel unsteady counter flows; the properties of this state are examined. A linear stability problem for the interface is formulated and solved for both (a) inviscid and (b) viscous fluids. A transformation is found which reduces the linear stability problem under the inviscid approximation to the Mathieu equation. The parametric resonant regions of instability associated with the intensification of capillary-gravity waves at the interface are examined and the results are compared to those found in the viscous case in a fully numerical investigation.     

Inertial waves in a rotating annulus with inclined inner cylinder: comparing the spectrum of wave attractor frequency bands and the eigenspectrum in the limit of zero inclination

We investigate theoretically inertial waves inside a liquid confined between two co-rotating coaxial cylinders of finite length. We consider the case of small viscosity and high angular velocity (i.e., small Ekman numbers), a parameter range of interest for many geophysical applications. In this case, inertial waves propagating in the container show multiple reflections at the walls before the waves can be damped by weak diffusion. We allow for the inner cylinder wall to be parallel or inclined with respect to the annulus’ vector of rotation (truncated cone). For the limit of zero viscosity, the wave propagation is governed by a boundary value problem that is composed of a linear second-order hyperbolic partial differential equation and the impermeability boundary conditions. For the special case of vertical cylinder walls (no inclination of the inner cylinder), this boundary value problem is separable, the corresponding eigenmodes can analytically be found and they are regular. However, when the inner cylinder wall is inclined, the hyperbolicity of the governing equation leads to internal shear layers (corresponding to singularities for the inviscid case). The geometrical structure of the shear layers can be explained by inertial waves, trapped on limit cycles denoted as wave attractors. The shape of the limit cycles depends on the wave frequency. In fact, the spectrum of regular modes, existing for the case of vertical cylinder walls, vanishes almost completely when the inner wall is inclined. Instead of a spectrum of discrete frequencies and regular eigenmodes, a spectrum of wave attractor frequency bands and singular eigenmodes exist. The question addressed here is whether the spectrum of wave attractor intervals collapses to the discrete frequency spectrum when the inclination angle of the inner cylinder goes to zero. To answer this question, the attractor frequency intervals are evaluated numerically for a series of decreasing cylinder inclination angles and are compared with the analytically found eigenspectrum for the case of zero inclination. Goal is to better understand the asymptotic behavior of the problem for decreasing inclination angles. This understanding helps to interpret results from laboratory experiments with geometries that differ from the perfect annulus with parallel cylinder walls.     

Inviscid instability of two-fluid free surface flow down an incline

The inviscid temporal stability analysis of two-fluid parallel shear flow with a free surface, down an incline, is studied. The velocity profiles are chosen as piecewise-linear with two limbs. The analysis reveals the existence of unstable inviscid modes, arising due to wave interaction between the free surface and the shear-jump interface. Surface tension decreases the maximum growth rate of the dominant disturbance. Interestingly, in some limits, surface tension destabilises extremely short waves in this flow. This can happen because of the interaction with the shear-jump interface. This flow may be compared with a corresponding viscous two-fluid flow. Though viscosity modifies the stability properties of the flow system both qualitatively and quantitatively, there is qualitative agreement between the viscous and inviscid stability analysis when the less viscous fluid is closer to the free surface.