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A generalized version of the $abcd$-Boussinesq class of systems is derived to accommodate variable bottom topography in two-dimensional space. This extension allows for the conservation of suitable energy functionals in some cases and…

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We compute the full set of second-order inertial corrections to the instantaneous force and torque acting on a small spherical rigid particle moving unsteadily in a general steady linear flow. This is achieved by using matched asymptotic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-21 Fabien Candelier , Rabah Mehaddi , Bernhard Mehlig , Jacques Magnaudet

We present a spatio-temporal analysis of a statistically stationary rotating turbulence experiment, aiming to extract a signature of inertial waves, and to determine the scales and frequencies at which they can be detected. The analysis…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 Antoine Campagne , Basile Gallet , Frédéric Moisy , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

We investigate the perturbations induced by a periodic bathymetry on traveling Boussinesq solitons in a two-dimensional configuration. We present two perturbation approaches to solve the nonlinear, dispersive and non-autonomous differential…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-16 A. Ludu , J. Yu , A. S. Carstea

The present article is the third part of a series of papers devoted to the shallow water wave modelling. In this part, we investigate the derivation of some long wave models on a deformed sphere. We propose first a suitable for our purposes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Gayaz Khakimzyanov , Denys Dutykh , Zinaida Fedotova

The discrete baroclinic modes of quasigeostrophic theory are incomplete and the incompleteness manifests as a loss of information in the projection process. The incompleteness of the baroclinic modes is related to the presence of two…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Houssam Yassin , Stephen M. Griffies

We consider the generalized Good-Boussinesq model in one dimension, with power nonlinearity and data in the energy space $H^1\times L^2$. This model has solitary waves with speeds $-1<c<1$. When $|c|$ approaches 1, Bona and Sachs showed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Christopher Maulén

In a recent study [DutykhDias2007] we presented a novel visco-potential free surface flows formulation. The governing equations contain local and nonlocal dissipative terms. From physical point of view, local dissipation terms come from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Denys Dutykh

The scattering of three-dimensional inertia-gravity waves by a turbulent geostrophic flow leads to the redistribution of their action through what is approximately a diffusion process in wavevector space. The corresponding diffusivity…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 Michael R. Cox , Hossein A. Kafiabad , Jacques Vanneste

Inertial waves transport energy and momentum in rotating fluids and are a major contributor to mixing and tidal dissipation in Earth's oceans, gaseous planets, and stellar interiors. However, their stability and breakdown mechanisms are not…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Valentin Skoutnev , Aurélie Astoul , Adrian J. Barker

In this paper, we investigate the well-posedness of a nonlinear dispersive model with variable coefficients that describes the evolution of surface waves propagating through a one-dimensional shallow water channel of finite length with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Juan Carlos Muñoz Grajales , Deissy Marcela Pizo

We present spatial-resolved measurements of the columnar vortex structures in rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection. The scaled radial profiles of the azimuthal velocity $u_{\phi}(r)$ and vertical vorticity ${\omega}(r)$ of the vortices are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-15 Jun-Qiang Shi , Hao-Yuan Lu , Shan-Shan Ding , Jin-Qiang Zhong

A higher-order nonlinear Boussinesq system with a time-dependent boundary delay is considered. Sufficient conditions are presented to ensure the well-posedness of the problem by utilizing Kato's variable norm technique and the Fixed-Point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-02 G. Bautista , R. de A. Capistrano--Filho , B. Chentouf , O. Sierra Fonseca

Internal waves, or waves that propagate within a stratified fluid, may break and cause mixing. While each individual mixing event may be small, collectively, internal wave breaking drive processes in the ocean that are critical to…

Rayleigh-Taylor instability occurs when a heavier fluid overlies a lighter fluid, and the two seek to exchange positions under the effect of gravity. We present linearized theory for arbitrary 3D initial disturbances that grow in time, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-18 S. J. Walters , L. K. Forbes

Considered here are Boussinesq systems of equations of surface water wave theory over a variable bottom. A simplified such Boussinesq system is derived and solved numerically by the standard Galerkin-finite element method. We study by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-15 Dimitrios Mitsotakis

In this paper we present a numerical scheme for solving a system of Boussinesq-type equations. This can correspond to longitudinal displacements in a multi-layered elastic bar with delamination, with conditions on the interface between the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-01-01 M. R. Tranter

We prove the existence on long time scales of the solutions to the Cauchy problem for a version of weakly transverse Boussinesq systems arising in the modeling of surface water waves. This system is much more complicated than the isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Qi Li , Jean-Claude Saut , Li Xu

We show that the semi-implicit time discretization approaches previously introduced for multilayer shallow water models for the barotropic case can be also applied to the variable density case with Boussinesq approximation. Furthermore,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Luca Bonaventura , José Garres-Díaz

Effects of the baroclinic torque on wave propagation normally neglected under the Boussinesq approximation is investigated here, with a special focus on the associated consequences for the mechanistic interpretation of shear instability…

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