Unique determination of stratified steady water waves from pressure

Consider a two-dimensional stratified solitary wave propagating through a body of water that is bounded below by an impermeable ocean bed. In this work, we study how such a wave can be recovered from data consisting of the wave speed, upstream and downstream density and velocity profile, and the trace of the pressure on the bed. In particular, we prove that this data uniquely determines the wave, both in the (real) analytic and Sobolev regimes.     

Approximations of steady periodic water waves in flows with constant vorticity

We provide high-order approximations to periodic travelling wave profiles and to the velocity field and the pressure beneath the waves, in flows with constant vorticity over a flat bed.     

Asymptotic expansions for steady periodic water waves in flows with constant vorticity

We provide high-order approximations to periodic travelling wave profiles, through a novel expansion which incorporates the variation of the total mechanical energy of the water wave. We show that these approximations are extended to any finite order. Moreover, we provide the velocity field and the pressure beneath the waves, in flows with constant vorticity over a flat bed.     

Velocity field and pressure analysis of equatorial flows beneath solitary water waves

In this paper, we investigate steady equatorial flows beneath solitary water waves subject to the Coriolis effect, which propagate over a flat bed. In particular, we focus on irrotational flows and present some properties of velocity field, behavior of the pressure and the extrema of the dynamic pressure. In addition, we provide some estimates for the elevation of wave from pressure measurements at an arbitrary intermediate depth. The analysis is based on the maximum principles.     

Existence and qualitative theory for stratified solitary water waves

This paper considers two-dimensional gravity solitary waves moving through a body of density stratified water lying below vacuum. The fluid domain is assumed to lie above an impenetrable flat ocean bed, while the interface between the water and vacuum is a free boundary where the pressure is constant. We prove that, for any smooth choice of upstream velocity field and density function, there exists a continuous curve of such solutions that includes large-amplitude surface waves. Furthermore, following this solution curve, one encounters waves that come arbitrarily close to possessing points of horizontal stagnation.We also provide a number of results characterizing the qualitative features of solitary stratified waves. In part, these include bounds on the wave speed from above and below, some of which are new even for constant density flow; an a priori bound on the velocity field and lower bound on the pressure; a proof of the nonexistence of monotone bores in this physical regime; and a theorem ensuring that all supercritical solitary waves of elevation have an axis of even symmetry.     

Regularity of Traveling Free Surface Water Waves with Vorticity

We prove real analyticity of all the streamlines, including the free surface, of a gravity- or capillary-gravity-driven steady flow of water over a flat bed, with a Hölder continuous vorticity function, provided that the propagating speed of the wave on the free surface exceeds the horizontal fluid velocity throughout the flow. Furthermore, if the vorticity possesses some Gevrey regularity of index s, then the stream function of class C ^2,μ admits the same Gevrey regularity throughout the fluid domain; in particular if the Gevrey index s equals 1, then we obtain analyticity of the stream function. The regularity results hold not only for periodic or solitary-water waves, but also for any solution to the hydrodynamic equations of class C ^2,μ .     

Nonlinear Wave–Current Interactions in Shallow Water

We study here the propagation of long waves in the presence of vorticity. In the irrotational framework, the Green–Naghdi equations (also called Serre or fully nonlinear Boussinesq equations) are the standard model for the propagation of such waves. These equations couple the surface elevation to the vertically averaged horizontal velocity and are therefore independent of the vertical variable. In the presence of vorticity, the dependence on the vertical variable cannot be removed from the vorticity equation but it was however shown in 1 that the motion of the waves could be described using an extended Green–Naghdi system. In this paper, we propose an analysis of these equations, and show that they can be used to get some new insight into wave–current interactions. We show in particular that solitary waves may have a drastically different behavior in the presence of vorticity and show the existence of solitary waves of maximal amplitude with a peak at their crest, whose angle depends on the vorticity. We also show some simple numerical validations. Finally, we give some examples of wave–current interactions with a nontrivial vorticity field and topography effects.     

Global bifurcation of steady gravity water waves with critical layers

We construct families of two-dimensional travelling water waves propagating under the influence of gravity in a flow of constant vorticity over a flat bed, in particular establishing the existence of waves of large amplitude. A Riemann–Hilbert problem approach is used to recast the governing equations as a one-dimensional elliptic pseudodifferential equation with a scalar constraint. The structural properties of this formulation, which arises as the Euler–Lagrange equation of an energy functional, enable us to develop a theory of analytic global bifurcation.     

Regularity and symmetry properties of rotational solitary water waves

We prove that a solitary water wave driven by gravity has real-analytic streamlines for arbitrary vorticity functions if the flow contains no stagnation points. Based on this property, we show that if all the streamlines attain their global maximum (resp. minimum) on the same vertical line, then the solitary wave has to be symmetric and strictly monotone away from the crest (resp. trough). Our results are true for sub- and supercritical solitary waves as well.     

Dispersion relations for steady periodic water waves with an isolated layer of vorticity at the surface

In this article we obtain the dispersion relation for small-amplitude steady periodic water waves, which propagate over a flat bed with a specified and fixed mean depth, and where the underlying flow has a discontinuous vorticity distribution. This discontinuity takes the form of an isolated layer of constant non-zero vorticity at the surface of the flow, with purely irrotational flow beneath this layer.     

推广的β平面近似下带有外源和耗散强迫的非线性Boussinesq方程及其孤立波解

在推广的β平面近似下,从包含耗散和外源的准地转位涡方程出发,利用Gardner-Morikawa变换和弱非线性摄动展开法,推导出带有外源和耗散强迫的非线性Boussinesq方程去刻画非线性Rossby波振幅的演变和发展.利用修正的Jacobi椭圆函数展开法,得到Boussinesq方程的周期波解和孤立波解,从解的结构分析了推广的β效应、切变基本流、外源和耗散是影响非线性Rossby波的重要因素.     

Painlevé property, auto-Bäcklund transformation and analytic solutions of a variable-coefficient modified Korteweg-de Vries model in a hot magnetized dusty plasma with charge fluctuations

Under investigation in this paper is a variable-coefficient modified Korteweg-de Vries (vc-mKdV) model in a hot magnetized dusty plasma with charge fluctuations. With symbolic computation and bilinear method, Painlevé property is studied, auto-Bäcklund transformation is constructed, while soliton and other analytic solutions are obtained. Furthermore, influence of the coefficients on the dust-ion-acoustic (DIA) solitary wave propagation is investigated based on the soliton solution, which can be concluded as follows: (i) Amplitude of the DIA solitary wave is proportional to the square of the ratio of the coefficients of the dispersive to nonlinear terms; (ii) Velocity of the DIA solitary wave is controlled by the coefficients of the dispersive and dissipative terms; (iii) Propagation trajectory of the DIA solitary wave depends on the function forms of the coefficients of the dispersive, nonlinear and dissipative terms.     

非线性耦合标量场方程显式解析解的研究

利用两种不同的变换,获得了一类非线性耦合标量场方程的若干类型的精确解析解,其中包括孤子解、奇性孤波解和三角函数解,从而丰富了方程解的内容。这些结论可以应用于其它的非线性方程。此外还纠正了一些文献的部分结论。     

Pressure beneath a Stokes wave

We investigate the pressure within an irrotational fluid in a periodic, steady, two‐dimensional gravity wave above a flat bed. We prove that the pressure in the fluid strictly decreases horizontally away from the crest line. Furthermore, the pressure strictly increases with depth. We also investigate the effect of an underlying current on the paths of the particles. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

On the interaction of deep water waves and exponential shear currents

A train of periodic deep-water waves propagating on a steady shear current with a vertical distribution of vorticity is investigated by an analytic method, namely the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The magnitude of the vorticity varies exponentially with the magnitude of the stream function, while remaining constant on a particular streamline. The so-called Dubreil–Jacotin transformation is used to transfer the original exponentially nonlinear boundary-value problem in an unknown domain into an algebraically nonlinear boundary-value problem in a known domain. Convergent series solutions are obtained not only for small amplitude water waves on a weak current but also for large amplitude waves on a strong current. The nonlinear wave-current interaction is studied in detail. It is found that an aiding shear current tends to enlarge the wave phase speed, sharpen the wave crest, but shorten the maximum wave height, while an opposing shear current has the opposite effect. Besides, the amplitude of waves and fluid velocity decay over the depth more quickly on an aiding shear current but more slowly on an opposing shear current than that of waves on still water. Furthermore, it is found that Stokes criteria of wave breaking is still valid for waves on a shear current: a train of propagating waves on a shear current breaks as the fiuid velocity at crest equals the wave phase speed. Especially, it is found that the highest waves on an opposing shear current are even higher and steeper than that of waves on still water. Mathematically, this analytic method is rather general in principle and can be employed to solve many types of nonlinear partial differential equations with variable coefficients in science, finance and engineering.     

Spectral Stability of Deep Two‐Dimensional Gravity‐Capillary Water Waves

In this contribution we study the spectral stability problem for periodic traveling gravity‐capillary waves on a two‐dimensional fluid of infinite depth. We use a perturbative approach that computes the spectrum of the linearized water wave operator as an analytic function of the wave amplitude/slope. We extend the highly accurate method of Transformed Field Expansions to address surface tension in the presence of both simple and repeated eigenvalues, then numerically simulate the evolution of the spectrum as the wave amplitude is increased. We also calculate explicitly the first nonzero correction to the flat‐water spectrum, which we observe to accurately predict the stability (or instability) for all amplitudes within the disk of analyticity of the spectrum. With this observation in mind, the disk of analyticity of the flat state spectrum is numerically estimated as a function of the Bond number and the Bloch parameter, and compared to the value of the wave slope at the first finite amplitude eigenvalue collision.     

On the interaction of deep water waves and exponential shear currents

A train of periodic deep-water waves propagating on a steady shear current with a vertical distribution of vorticity is investigated by an analytic method, namely the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The magnitude of the vorticity varies exponentially with the magnitude of the stream function, while remaining constant on a particular streamline. The so-called Dubreil–Jacotin transformation is used to transfer the original exponentially nonlinear boundary-value problem in an unknown domain into an algebraically nonlinear boundary-value problem in a known domain. Convergent series solutions are obtained not only for small amplitude water waves on a weak current but also for large amplitude waves on a strong current. The nonlinear wave-current interaction is studied in detail. It is found that an aiding shear current tends to enlarge the wave phase speed, sharpen the wave crest, but shorten the maximum wave height, while an opposing shear current has the opposite effect. Besides, the amplitude of waves and fluid velocity decay over the depth more quickly on an aiding shear current but more slowly on an opposing shear current than that of waves on still water. Furthermore, it is found that Stokes criteria of wave breaking is still valid for waves on a shear current: a train of propagating waves on a shear current breaks as the fiuid velocity at crest equals the wave phase speed. Especially, it is found that the highest waves on an opposing shear current are even higher and steeper than that of waves on still water. Mathematically, this analytic method is rather general in principle and can be employed to solve many types of nonlinear partial differential equations with variable coefficients in science, finance and engineering.     

Solitary wave solutions to the Isobe-Kakinuma model for water waves

We consider the Isobe-Kakinuma model for two-dimensional water waves in the case of a flat bottom. The Isobe-Kakinuma model is a system of Euler-Lagrange equations for a Lagrangian approximating Luke's Lagrangian for water waves. We show theoretically the existence of a family of small amplitude solitary wave solutions to the Isobe-Kakinuma model in the long wave regime. Numerical analysis for large amplitude solitary wave solutions is also provided and suggests the existence of a solitary wave of extreme form with a sharp crest.     

PEAKED WAVE SOLUTIONS TO A GENERALIZED HYPERELASTIC-ROD WAVE EQUATION

We study peaked wave solutions of a generalized Hyperelastic-rod wave equation describing waves in compressible hyperelastic-rods by using the bifurcation theory of planar dynamical systems and numerical simulation method. The existence domain of the peaked solitary waves are found. The analytic expressions of peaked solitary wave solutions are obtained. Our numerical simulation and qualitative results are identical.     

强非线性波动方程孤子行波解

研究了一个强非线性波动方程.利用泛函分析变分迭代方法，首先构造了一个变分, 求出相应的Lagrange乘子；其次构造一个解的变分迭代, 选取初始孤子波；最后利用迭代方法依次求出各次孤子波的近似解.该方法是一个简单可行的近似求解非线性方程的方法