Travelling wave solutions for some two-component shallow water models

21 pages, 13 figures, 37 references. Other author's papers can be downloaded at http://www.denys-dutykh.com/International audienceIn the present study we perform a unified analysis of travelling wave solutions to three different two-component systems which appear in shallow water theory. Namely, we analyse the celebrated Green-Naghdi equations, the integrable two-component Camassa-Holm equations and a new two-component system of Green-Naghdi type. In particular, we are interested in solitary and cnoidal-type solutions, as two most important classes of travelling waves that we encounter in applications. We provide a complete phase-plane analysis of all possible travelling wave solutions which may arise in these models.In particular, we show the existence of new type of solutions

Nonlinear Two-Dimensional Water Waves with Arbitrary Vorticity

We consider the two-dimensional water-wave problem with a general non-zero vorticity field in a fluid volume with a flat bed and a free surface. The nonlinear equations of motion for the chosen surface and volume variables are expressed with the aid of the Dirichlet-Neumann operator and the Green function of the Laplace operator in the fluid domain. Moreover, we provide new explicit expressions for both objects. The field of a point vortex and its interaction with the free surface is studied as an example. In the small-amplitude long-wave Boussinesq and KdV regimes, we obtain appropriate systems of coupled equations for the dynamics of the point vortex and the time evolution of the free surface variables

Variational derivation of two-component Camassa-Holm shallow water system

By a variational approach in the Lagrangian formalism, we derive the nonlinear integrable two-component Camassa-Holm system (1). We show that the two-component Camassa-Holm system (1) with the plus sign arises as an approximation to the Euler equations of hydrodynamics for propagation of irrotational shallow water waves over a flat bed. The Lagrangian used in the variational derivation is not a metric.Comment: to appear in Appl. Ana

On the particle paths and the stagnation points in small-amplitude deep-water waves

In order to obtain quite precise information about the shape of the particle paths below small-amplitude gravity waves travelling on irrotational deep water, analytic solutions of the nonlinear differential equation system describing the particle motion are provided. All these solutions are not closed curves. Some particle trajectories are peakon-like, others can be expressed with the aid of the Jacobi elliptic functions or with the aid of the hyperelliptic functions. Remarks on the stagnation points of the small-amplitude irrotational deep-water waves are also made.Comment: to appear in J. Math. Fluid Mech. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1106.382

Liapunov's direct method for Birkhoffian systems: Applications to electrical networks

In this paper, the concepts and the direct theorems of stability in the sense of Liapunov, within the framework of Birkhoffian dynamical systems on manifolds, are considered. The Liapunov-type functions are constructed for linear and nonlinear LC and RLC electrical networks, to prove stability under certain conditions.Comment: 21 pages, 1 figur

Effects of vorticity on the travelling waves of some shallow water two-component systems

27 pages, 14 figures, 45 references. Other author's papers can be downloaded at http://www.denys-dutykh.com/International audienceIn the present study we consider three two-component (integrable and non-integrable) systems which describe the propagation of shallow water waves on a constant shear current. Namely, we consider the two-component Camassa-Holm equations, the Zakharov-Ito system and the Kaup--Boussinesq equations all including constant vorticity effects. We analyze both solitary and periodic-type travelling waves using the simple and geometrically intuitive phase space analysis. We get the pulse-type solitary wave solutions and the front solitary wave solutions. For the Zakharov-Ito system we underline the occurrence of the pulse and anti-pulse solutions. The front wave solutions decay algebraically in the far field. For the Kaup-Boussinesq system, interesting analytical multi-pulsed travelling wave solutions are found