On a Camassa-Holm type equation describing the dynamics of viscous fluid conduits

Abstract

In this note we derive a new nonlocal and nonlinear dispersive equations capturing the main dynamics of a circular interface separating a light, viscous fluid rising buoyantly through a heavy, more viscous, miscible fluid at small Reynolds numbers. This equation that we termed the $g-$model shares some common structure with the Camassa-Holm equation but has additional nonlocal effects. For this new PDE we study the well-posedness together with the existence of periodic traveling waves. Furthermore, we also show some numerical simulations suggesting the finite time singularity formation.

To appear in Applied Mathematics Letters