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Long-time shallow-water equations with a varying bottom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 1997

ROBERTO CAMASSA
Affiliation:
Theoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
DARRYL D. HOLM
Affiliation:
Theoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
C. DAVID LEVERMORE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

Abstract

We present and discuss new shallow-water equations that model the long-time effects of slowly varying bottom topography and weak hydrostatic imbalance on the vertically averaged horizontal velocity of an incompressible fluid possessing a free surface and moving under the force of gravity. We consider the regime where the Froude number ε is much smaller than the aspect ratio δ of the shallow domain. The new equations are obtained from the ε→0 limit of the Euler equations (the rigid-lid approximation) at the first order of an asymptotic expansion in δ2. These equations possess local conservation laws of energy and vorticity which reflect exact layer mean conservation laws of the three-dimensional Euler equations. In addition, they convect potential vorticity and have a Hamilton's principle formulation. We contrast them with the Green–Naghdi equations.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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