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Long-time asymptotics and the radiation condition for linear evolution equations on the half-line with time-periodic boundary conditions

Analysis of PDEs 2023-07-28 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

The large time tt asymptotics for scalar, constant coefficient,linear, third order, dispersive equations are obtained for asymptotically time-periodic Dirichlet boundary data and zero initial data on the half-line modeling a wavemaker acting upon an initially quiescent medium. The asymptotic Dirichlet-to-Neumann (D-N) map is constructed by expanding upon the recently developed QQ-equation method. The D-N map is proven to be unique if and only if the radiation condition that selects the unique wavenumber branch of the dispersion relation for a sinusoidal, time-dependent boundary condition holds: (i) for frequencies in a finite interval, the wavenumber is real and corresponds to positive group velocity, (ii) for frequencies outside the interval, the wavenumber is complex with positive imaginary part. For fixed spatial location xx, the corresponding asymptotic solution is (i) a traveling wave or (ii) a spatially decaying, time-periodic wave. Uniform-in-xx asymptotic solutions for the physical cases of the linearized Korteweg-de Vries and Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equations are obtained via integral asymptotics. The linearized BBM asymptotics are found to quantitatively agree with viscous core-annular fluid experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2307.14670,
  title  = {Long-time asymptotics and the radiation condition for linear evolution equations on the half-line with time-periodic boundary conditions},
  author = {Yifeng Mao and Dionyssios Mantzavinos and Mark A. Hoefer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14670},
  year   = {2023}
}