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We study the linear asymptotic stability of stably stratified monotone shear flows for the Boussinesq equations in the periodic channel. By means of the limiting absorption principle, we obtain a precise description of the inviscid damping…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Alberto Enciso , Marc Nualart

This paper deals with the interactions of waves governed by a non-linear dispersive Boussinesq type system with the vertical displacement of a cylindrical floating structure in an axisymmetric without swirl situation. The Boussinesq regime…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Geoffrey Beck , Ewan Contentin , Ludovic Martaud

We consider two-phase Navier--Stokes flow with a Boussinesq--Scriven surface fluid. In such a fluid the rheological behaviour at the interface includes surface viscosity effects, in addition to the classical surface tension effects. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-11 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

In a recent paper, we showed that the large $(x,t)$ behavior of a class of physically relevant solutions of Boussinesq's equation for water waves is described by ten main asymptotic sectors. In the sector adjacent to the positive $x$-axis,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Christophe Charlier , Jonatan Lenells

The asymptotics of the strongly stratified Boussinesq system when the Froude number goes to zero have been previously investigated, but the resulting limit system surprisingly did not depend on the thermal diffusivity $\nu$ ' . In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Frédéric Charve

The equations of motion describing buoyant fluids are often simplified using a set of approximations proposed by J. Boussinesq one century ago. To resume, they consist in assuming constant fluid properties, incompressibility and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-10-19 Philippe-Emmanuel P. -E. Roche

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

The theory of integrable systems of Hamiltonian PDEs and their near-integrable deformations is used to study evolution equations resulting from vertical-averages of the Euler system for two-layer stratified flows in an infinite 2D channel.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 R. Camassa , G. Falqui , G. Ortenzi

We determine the asymptotic conditions under which the Boussinesq approximation is valid for oscillatory convection in a rapidly rotating fluid. In the astrophysically relevant parameter regime of small Prandtl number, we show that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 Toby S Wood , Paul J Bushby

By using the long-wave approximation, a system of coupled evolution equations for the bulk velocity and the surface perturbations of a B\'enard-Marangoni system is obtained. It includes nonlinearity, dispersion and dissipation, and it can…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-22 R. A. Kraenkel , S. M. Kurcbart , J. G. Pereira , M. A. Manna

We consider the 2D Boussinesq equations with a velocity damping term in a strip $\mathbb{T}\times[-1,1]$, with impermeable walls. In this physical scenario, where the \textit{Boussinesq approximation} is accurate when density/temperature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Angel Castro , Diego Córdoba , Daniel Lear

In this article we consider the Boussinesq system supplemented with some dissipation terms. These equations model the propagation of a waterwave in shallow water. We prove the existence of a global smooth attractor for the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mostafa Abounouh , Abdelghafour Atlas , Olivier Goubet

We consider the Cauchy problem for an evolution equation modeling bidirectional surface waves in a convecting fluid. Under small condition on the initial value, the existence and asymptotic behavior of global solutions in some time weighted…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-10 Amin Esfahani , Hamideh B. Mohammadi

In this paper we study a shallow water equation derivable using the Boussinesq approximation, which includes as two special cases, one equation discussed by Ablowitz et. al. [Stud. Appl. Math., 53 (1974) 249--315] and one by Hirota and…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-28 Peter A. Clarkson , Elizabeth L. Mansfield

We present a new asymptotic strategy for general micro-macro models which analyze complex viscoelastic fluids governed by coupled multiscale dynamics. In such models, the elastic stress appearing in the macroscopic continuum equation is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Xuenan Li , Chun Liu , Di Qi

In this paper, we derive asymptotic models for the propagation of two and three-dimensional gravity waves at the free surface and the interface between two layers of immiscible fluids of different densities, over an uneven bottom. We assume…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Vincent Duchene

We consider axisymmetric Boussinesq convection in a shallow cylinder radius, L, and depth, H (<< L), which rotates with angular velocity $\Omega$ about its axis of symmetry aligned to the vertical. Constant heat flux boundary conditions,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-21 A M Soward , L Oruba , E Dormy

We study the Boussinesq approximation for the incompressible Euler equations using Lagrangian description. The conditions for the Lagrangian fluid map are derived in this setting, and a general method is presented to find exact fluid flows…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Tomi Saleva , Jukka Tuomela

In this paper, we study various dissipative mechanics associated with the Boussinesq systems which model two-dimensional small amplitude long wavelength water waves. We will show that the decay rate for the damped one-directional model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Min Chen , Olivier Goubet

Linear stability analysis has proven to be a useful tool in the analysis of dominant coherent structures, such as the von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n vortex street and the global spiral mode associated with the vortex breakdown of swirling jets. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-24 Lothar Rukes , Christian Oliver Paschereit , Kilian Oberleithner