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most citedThe Whitham Equation as a Model for Surface Water Waves

100 citations · 342 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

physics.flu-dyn2023

Identification of wave breaking from nearshore wave-by-wave records

Karoline Holand, Henrik Kalisch, Maria Bjørnestad +7

Using data from a recent field campaign, we evaluate several breaking criteria with the goal of assessing the accuracy of these criteria in wave breaking detection. Two new criteri…

physics.flu-dyn2023

The superharmonic instability and wave breaking in Whitham equations

John D. Carter, Marc Francius, Christian Kharif +2

The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of surface waves on shallow water that combines the unidirectional linear dispersion relation of the Euler equations with a weakly…

math.NA2023

A novel energy-bounded Boussinesq model and a well balanced and stable numerical discretisation

Magnus Svärd, Henrik Kalisch

In this work, a novel Boussinesq system is put forward. The system is naturally nonlinearly entropy/energy-stable, and is designed for problems with sharply varying bathymetric fea…

nlin.PS2022★ 1 cited

Breather Solutions to the Cubic Whitham Equation

Henrik Kalisch, Miguel A. Alejo, Adán J. Corcho +1

We are concerned with numerical approximations of breather solutions for the cubic Whitham equation which arises as a water-wave model for interfacial waves. The model combines str…

physics.flu-dyn2021

The Cubic Vortical Whitham Equation

John D. Carter, Henrik Kalisch, Christian Kharif +1

The cubic-vortical Whitham equation is a model for wave motion on a vertically sheared current of constant vorticity in a shallow inviscid fluid. It generalizes the classical Whith…

physics.flu-dyn2021

A Nonlinear Formulation of Radiation Stress and Applications to Cnoidal Shoaling

Martin O. Paulsen, Henrik Kalisch

In this article we provide formulations of energy flux and radiation stress consistent with the scaling regime of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. These quantities can be used…

math.NA2020★ 8 cited

A regularized shallow-water waves system with slip-wall boundary conditions in a basin: Theory and numerical analysis

Samer Israwi, Henrik Kalisch, Theodoros Katsaounis +1

The simulation of long, nonlinear dispersive waves in bounded domains usually requires the use of slip-wall boundary conditions. Boussinesq systems appearing in the literature are…

physics.flu-dyn2020

Fully dispersive Boussinesq models with uneven bathymetry

John D. Carter, Evgueni Dinvay, Henrik Kalisch

Three weakly nonlinear but fully dispersive Whitham-Boussinesq systems for uneven bathymetry are studied. The derivation and discretization of one system is presented. The numerica…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 26 cited

The Whitham Equation with Surface Tension

Evgueni Dinvay, Daulet Moldabayev, Denys Dutykh +1

The viability of the Whitham equation as a nonlocal model for capillary-gravity waves at the surface of an inviscid incompressible fluid is under study. A nonlocal Hamiltonian syst…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 24 cited

A comparative study of bi-directional Whitham systems

Evgueni Dinvay, Denys Dutykh, Henrik Kalisch

In 1967, Whitham proposed a simplified surface water-wave model which combined the full linear dispersion relation of the full Euler equations with a weakly linear approximation. T…

math-ph2018★ 16 cited

Approximate Conservation Laws in the KdV Equation

Samer Israwi, Henrik Kalisch

The Korteweg-de Vries equation is known to yield a valid description of surface waves for waves of small amplitude and large wavelength. The equation features a number of conserved…

physics.flu-dyn2018

Particle trajectories in nonlinear Schrodinger models

John D. Carter, Christopher W. Curtis, Henrik Kalisch

The nonlinear Schrodinger equation is well known as a universal equation in the study of wave motion. In the context of wave motion at the free surface of an incompressible fluid,…

math-ph2018

A Mathematical Justification of the Momentum Density Function Associated to the KdV Equation

Samer Israwi, Henrik Kalisch

Consideration is given to the KdV equation as an approximate model for long waves of small amplitude at the free surface of an inviscid fluid. It is shown that there is an approxim…

math.AP2018

On the local well-posedness for a full dispersion Boussinesq system with surface tension

Henrik Kalisch, Didier Pilod

In this note, we prove local-in-time well-posedness for a fully dispersive Boussinesq system arising in the context of free surface water waves in two and three spatial dimensions.…

math.AP2018★ 37 cited

Existence and Uniqueness of Singular Solutions for a Conservation Law Arising in Magnetohydrodynamics

Henrik Kalisch, Darko Mitrovic, Vincent Teyekpiti

The Brio system is a two-by-two system of conservation laws arising as a simplified model in ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The system has the form \begin{align*} \partial_t u+\…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 14 cited

Shallow Water Dynamics on Linear Shear Flows and Plane Beaches

Maria Bjørnestad, Henrik Kalisch

Long waves in shallow water propagating over a background shear flow towards a sloping beach are being investigated. The classical shallow-water equations are extended to incorpora…

math.NA2016★ 11 cited

Numerical Study of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Models with SpecTraVVave

Henrik Kalisch, Daulet Moldabayev, Olivier Verdier

In nonlinear dispersive evolution equations, the competing effects of nonlinearity and dispersion make a number of interesting phenomena possible. In the current work, the focus is…

nlin.PS2016★ 18 cited

Numerical Bifurcation for the Capillary Whitham Equation

Filippo Remonato, Henrik Kalisch

The so-called Whitham equation arises in the modeling of free surface water waves, and combines a generic nonlinear quadratic term with the exact linear dispersion relation for gra…

physics.flu-dyn2016★ 1 cited

Convective Wave Breaking in the KdV Equation

Mats K. Brun, Henrik Kalisch

The KdV equation is a model equation for waves at the surface of an inviscid incompressible fluid, and it is well known that the equation describes the evolution of unidirectional…

physics.flu-dyn2015★ 16 cited

Mechanical balance laws for fully nonlinear and weakly dispersive water waves

Henrik Kalisch, Zahra Khorsand, Dimitrios Mitsotakis

The Serre-Green-Naghdi system is a coupled, fully nonlinear system of dispersive evolution equations which approximates the full water wave problem. The system is an extension of t…

physics.flu-dyn2014★ 100 cited

The Whitham Equation as a Model for Surface Water Waves

Daulet Moldabayev, Henrik Kalisch, Denys Dutykh

The Whitham equation was proposed as an alternate model equation for the simplified description of uni-directional wave motion at the surface of an inviscid fluid. As the Whitham e…

physics.flu-dyn2014★ 27 cited

A Kinematic Conservation Law in Free Surface Flow

Sergey Gavrilyuk, Henrik Kalisch, Zahra Khorsand

The Green-Naghdi system is used to model highly nonlinear weakly dispersive waves propagating at the surface of a shallow layer of a perfect fluid. The system has three associated…

math.AP2013

Global bifurcation for the Whitham equation

Mats Ehrnstrom, Henrik Kalisch

We prove the existence of a global bifurcation branch of -periodic, smooth, traveling-wave solutions of the Whitham equation. It is shown that any subset of solutions in the gl…

physics.class-ph2011★ 38 cited

Boussinesq modeling of surface waves due to underwater landslides

Denys Dutykh, Henrik Kalisch

Consideration is given to the influence of an underwater landslide on waves at the surface of a shallow body of fluid. The equations of motion which govern the evolution of the bar…