Abstract
AbstractIn Ablowitz, Fokas & Musslimani (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 562, 2006, pp. 313–343) a novel formulation was proposed for water waves in three space dimensions. In the flat-bottom case, this formulation consists of the Bernoulli equation, as well as of a non-local equation. The variable-bottom case, which now involves two non-local equations, was outlined but not explored in the above paper. Here, the variable-bottom formulation is addressed in more detail. First, it is shown that in the weakly nonlinear, weakly dispersive regime, the above system of three equations can be reduced to a system of two equations. Second, by combining the novel non-local formulation of the above authors with conformal mappings, it is shown that in the two-dimensional case, it is possible to obtain a system of two equations without any asymptotic approximations. Furthermore, for the weakly nonlinear, weakly dispersive regime, the nonlinear equations are simpler than the equations obtained without conformal mappings, since they contain lower order derivatives for the terms involving the bottom variable.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics
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