Wave breaking in a shallow water model

Vera Mikyoung Hur, Lizheng Tao

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Abstract

We show wave breaking---bounded solutions with unbounded derivatives---in the nonlinear nonlocal equations which combine the dispersion relation of water waves and the nonlinear shallow water equations and which extend the Whitham equation to permit bidirectional propagation, provided that the slope of the initial data is sufficiently negative.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)354-380
Number of pages27
JournalSIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
Volume50
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

Keywords

  • Blowup
  • Boussinesq
  • Shallow water
  • Wave breaking
  • Whitham

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analysis
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

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