Waves over Curved Bottom: The Method of Composite Conformal Mapping

Abstract

A compact and efficient numerical method is described for studying plane flows of an ideal fluid with a smooth free boundary over a curved and nonuniformly moving bottom. Exact equations of motion in terms of the so-called conformal variables are used. In addition to the previously known applications for shear flows with constant (including zero) vorticity, here a generalization is made to the case of potential flows in uniformly rotating coordinate systems, where centrifugal and Coriolis forces are added to the gravity force. A brief review is given of previous results obtained by this method in a number of physically interesting problems such as modeling of tsunami waves caused by the movement of nonuniform bottom, the dynamics of Bragg (gap) solitons over a spatially periodic bottom profile, the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) recurrence phenomenon for waves in a finite pool, the formation of anomalous waves in an opposing nonuniform current, and the propagation of a solitary wave in a shear current and its runup on a depth difference. In addition, a number of new numerical results are presented concerning the nonlinear dynamics of a free boundary in closed rotating containers partially filled with a fluid -- centrifuges of complex shape. In this case, the equations of motion differ in some essential details from those of $x$-periodic systems.

arXiv comment10 pages, 15 figures, in English, published version

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