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We present a fundamental solution to an initial value problem for the KdV-Whitham system in an explicit integral form. Monotonically decreasing initial data with finite number of breaking points are considered. Generating function for the…

solv-int · Physics 2008-02-03 G. A. El

This work aims at generating a model of the ocean surface and its dynamics from one or more video cameras. The idea is to model wave patterns from video as a first step towards a larger system of photogrammetric monitoring of marine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Mauro de Amorim , Ricardo Fabbri , Lucia Maria dos Santos Pinto , Francisco Duarte Moura Neto

It is seen how to write the standard\^E form of the four partial differential equations in four unknowns of anisotropic thermoelasticity as a single equation in one variable, in terms of isothermal and isentropic wave operators. This…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-05-11 N. H. Scott

The Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation with small dispersion is a model for the formation and propagation of dispersive shock waves in one dimension. Dispersive shock waves in KdV are characterized by the appearance of zones of rapid…

solv-int · Physics 2008-02-03 T. Grava

In the paper a new nonlinear equation describing shallow water waves with the topography of the bottom directly taken into account is derived. This equation is valid in the weakly nonlinear, dispersive and long wavelength limit. Some…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-05-22 Anna Karczewska , Piotr Rozmej , Łukasz Rutkowski

Whitham modulation theory for the two dimensional Benjamin-Ono (2DBO) equation is presented. A system of five quasi-linear first-order partial differential equations is derived. The system describes modulations of the traveling wave…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-26 Mark J. Ablowitz , Gino Biondini , Qiao Wang

In this article, we provide an alternative way to construct small amplitude traveling waves for general Whitham type equations, in both periodic and whole line contexts. More specifically, Fourier analysis techniques allow us to reformulate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Atanas Stefanov , J. Douglas Wright

A statistical method for calculating equilibrium solutions of the shallow water equations, a model of essentially 2-d fluid flow with a free surface, is described. The model contains a competing acoustic turbulent {\it direct} energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-06 Peter B. Weichman , Dean M. Petrich

The Hamiltonian formulation of the water wave problem due to Zakharov, and the reduced Zakharov equation derived therefrom, have great utility in understanding and modelling water waves. Here we set out to review the cubic Zakharov equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-12 Raphael Stuhlmeier

A systematic and full description of the theory for a dissipation mechanism of wind wave energy in a spectral representation is given. As a basis of the theory, the fundamental is stated that the most general dissipation mechanism for wind…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2010-06-21 Vladislav G. Polnikov

We establish a simple and explicit criterion for wave breaking for a general class of perturbed Burgers equations that cover several Burgers-type models, including the Fractional KdV equation, the Whitham equation, and the Fornberg-Whitham…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Ethan Botelho , Khai T. Nguyen , Madhumita Roy

Existing theoretical results for attenuation of surface waves propagating on water of random fluctuating depth are shown to over predict the rate of decay due to the way in which ensemble averaging is performed. A revised approach is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-05 Lloyd Dafydd , Richard Porter

Regularizing effects of surface tension are studied for interfacial waves between a two-dimensional, infinitely-deep and irrotational flow of water and vacuum. The water wave problem under the influence of surface tension is formulated as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Vera Mikyoung Hur

Our aim is to study the effect of a continuous prescribed density variation on the propagation of ocean waves. More precisely, we derive KdV-type shallow water model equations for unidirectional flows along the Equator from the full…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-29 Anna Geyer , Ronald Quirchmayr

Strichartz-type estimates for one-dimensional surface water-waves under surface tension are studied, based on the formulation of the problem as a nonlinear dispersive equation. We establish a family of dispersion estimates on time scales…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-09 Hans Christianson , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Gigliola Staffilani

In the paper, we discuss the studies of mathematical models of diffusion scattering of waves in the phase space, and relation of these models with quantum mechanics. In the previous works it is shown that in these models of classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 E. M. Beniaminov

In this paper we prove the validity of a long wave Whitham approximation for a system consisting of a Boussinesq equation coupled with a Klein-Gordon equation. The proof is based on an infinite series of normal form transformations and an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Wolf-Patrick Düll , Kourosh Sanei Kashani , Guido Schneider

A new method is proposed to recover the water-wave surface elevation from pressure data obtained at the bottom of the fluid. The new method requires the numerical solution of a nonlocal nonlinear equation relating the pressure and the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-12-09 Katie Oliveras , Vishal Vasan , Bernard Deconinck , Diane Henderson

We prove short-time existence of smooth solutions for a class of nonlinear, and in general spatially nonlocal, Hamiltonian evolution equations that describe the self-interaction of weakly nonlinear scale-invariant waves. These equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John K. Hunter

Localized patterns and nonlinear oscillation formation on the bounded free surface of an ideal incompressible liquid are analytically investigated . Cnoidal modes, solitons and compactons, as traveling non-axially symmetric shapes are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-06 Andrei Ludu , Jerry P. Draayer