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March  2017, 37(3): 1489-1507. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017061

Qualitative description of the particle trajectories for the N-solitons solution of the Korteweg-de Vries equation

Ludovick Gagnon

Sorbonnes Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7598, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis, Lions F-75005, Paris, France

Received  October 2015 Revised  October 2016 Published  December 2016

Fund Project: LG is supported by FQRNT and by ERC advanced grant 266907 (CPDENL) of the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7)

The qualitative properties of the particle trajectories of the $N$-solitons solution of the KdV equation are recovered from the first order velocity field by the introduction of the stream function. Numerical simulations show an accurate depth dependance of the particles trajectories for solitary waves. Failure of the free surface kinematic boundary condition for the first order type velocity field is highlighted.

Keywords: Korteweg-de Vries equation, particle trajectory, N-solitons solution, solitary waves, potential flow.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary:35C08, 76B15.
Citation: Ludovick Gagnon. Qualitative description of the particle trajectories for the N-solitons solution of the Korteweg-de Vries equation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2017, 37 (3) : 1489-1507. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017061
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References:
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A. Ali and H. Kalisch, A dispersive model for undular bores, Anal. Math. Phys., 2 (2012), 347-366.  doi: 10.1007/s13324-012-0040-7.  Google Scholar

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H. Borluk and H. Kalisch, Particle dynamics in the KdV approximation, Wave Motion, 49 (2012), 691-709.  doi: 10.1016/j.wavemoti.2012.04.007.  Google Scholar

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J. Boussinesq, Essai sur la théorie des eaux courantes, (French) [Essay on the theory of running water], Mémoires présentés par divers savant á l'Acad. des Sci. Inst. Nat. France, ⅩⅩⅢ, (1877), 1-680.   Google Scholar

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A. Constantin, Nonlinear Water Waves with Applications to Wave-Current Interactions and Tsunamis Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, 2011. doi: 10.1137/1.9781611971873.  Google Scholar

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[10]

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A. Constantin and G. Villari, Particle trajectories in linear water waves, J. Math. Fluid Mech., 10 (2008), 1-18.  doi: 10.1007/s00021-005-0214-2.  Google Scholar

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J. S. Russell, Report on Waves, Report of the fourteenth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 39 (1844). Google Scholar

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G. B. Whitham, Linear and Nonlinear Waves Wiley-Interscience [John Wiley & Sons], New-York, 1974.  Google Scholar

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N. J. Zabusky and M. D. Kruskal, Interaction of "solitons" in a collisionless plasma and the recurrence of initial states, Physical Review Letters, 15 (1965), 240-243.  doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.15.240.  Google Scholar

Figure 1.  A soliton solution of (1) represented in the Cartesian coordinates.
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Figure 2.  The orbits of water particles obtained from the experimental measurements of the polystyrene beads motions at different water levels $b$ in the four experimental wave cases (a) $h_0$=20cm, $a$=7.07cm; (b) $h_0$=20cm, $a$=8.56cm; (c) $h_0$=30cm, $a$=5.46cm; (d) $h_0$=30cm, $a$=7.56cm.
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Figure 3.  Interaction between two solitons. The cross (resp. circle) represents the position of the maximum of the faster (resp. slower) soliton if no interaction would have occured. Figure a) is the state of the $2$-solitons solution before the interaction and b) is the state after the interaction. The frame is fixed at the speed of the slower soliton.
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Figure 4.  Comparison of the numerical approximation of the particle trajectories for the first order velocity field (top left) and the higher order velocity field (top right). Zoom on the end of the particle trajectories for the first order velocity field (bottom left) and the higher order velocity field (bottom right). The depth of the fluid is 30 cm and the height of the solitary wave is 5.46 cm. The dashed line represents the undisturbed water surface.
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Figure 5.  Total displacement ($X$) in the x variable and maximal displacement ($Y$) in the y variable with respect to the initial vertical position above the flat bottom of the particle $b$ for the first order velocity field ($1^{st}$), the higher velocity field (Hi.) and the experimental results (Exp.).
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Figure 6.  Numerical approximation of the particle trajectories for the 2-solitons solution. The particles trajectories are in black, the initial position of the 2-solitons is in dashed black and the final position is in gray. The height of the soliton in front is 0.4cm and the soliton behind is 0.3cm. The depth of the water is 1cm.
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