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June 2019, 39(6): 3123-3147. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019129

Sufficiently strong dispersion removes ill-posedness in truncated series models of water waves

Shunlian Liu ^1, and David M. Ambrose ^2,,

1.	School of Science, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou, Hunan 412007, China
2.	Department of Mathematics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

^* Corresponding author: David M. Ambrose

Received April 2018 Revised August 2018 Published February 2019

Fund Project: The second author is grateful for support from the National Science Foundation through grant DMS-1515849.

Truncated series models of gravity water waves are popular for use in simulation. Recent work has shown that these models need not inherit the well-posedness properties of the full equations of motion (the irrotational, incompressible Euler equations). We show that if one adds a sufficiently strong dispersive term to a quadratic truncated series model, the system then has a well-posed initial value problem. Such dispersion can be relevant in certain physical contexts, such as in the case of a bending force present at the free surface, as in a hydroelastic sheet.

Keywords: Water waves, hydroelastic, operator expansions, paradifferential calculus, well-posedness.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 76B15; Secondary: 34A12, 76B07, 35S50.

Citation: Shunlian Liu, David M. Ambrose. Sufficiently strong dispersion removes ill-posedness in truncated series models of water waves. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2019, 39 (6) : 3123-3147. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019129

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[5]	D. Ambrose and N. Masmoudi, The zero surface tension limit of three-dimensional water waves, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 58 (2009), 479-521. doi: 10.1512/iumj.2009.58.3450. Google Scholar
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[8]	D. Ambrose and G. Simpson, Local existence theory for derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equations with noninteger power nonlinearities, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 47 (2015), 2241-2264. doi: 10.1137/140955227. Google Scholar
[9]	P. Baldi and J. Toland, Bifurcation and secondary bifurcation of heavy periodic hydroelastic travelling waves, Interfaces Free Bound., 12 (2010), 1-22. doi: 10.4171/IFB/224. Google Scholar
[10]	T. Benjamin and T. Bridges, Reappraisal of the Kelvin-Helmholtz problem. Ⅱ. Interaction of the Kelvin-Helmholtz, superharmonic and Benjamin-Feir instabilities, J. Fluid Mech., 333 (1997), 327-373. doi: 10.1017/S0022112096004284. Google Scholar
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[14]	P. Constantin and J.-C. Saut, Local smoothing properties of dispersive equations, J. Amer. Math. Soc., 1 (1988), 413-439. doi: 10.2307/1990923. Google Scholar
[15]	W. Craig, P. Guyenne and H. Kalisch, Hamiltonian long-wave expansions for free surfaces and interfaces, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 58 (2005), 1587-1641. doi: 10.1002/cpa.20098. Google Scholar
[16]	W. Craig, P. Guyenne and C. Sulem, Water waves over a random bottom, J. Fluid Mech., 640 (2009), 79-107. doi: 10.1017/S0022112009991248. Google Scholar
[17]	W. Craig and C. Sulem, Numerical simulation of gravity waves, J. Comput. Phys., 108 (1993), 73-83. doi: 10.1006/jcph.1993.1164. Google Scholar
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