Gravity driven traveling bore wave solutions to the free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

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Main Authors: Stevenson, Noah, Tice, Ian
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Tice, Ian
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Tice, Ian
contents We give the first mathematical construction of two-dimensional traveling bore wave solutions to the free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for a single finite depth layer of constant density fluid. Our construction is based on a rigorous justification of the formal shallow water limit, which postulates that in a certain scaling regime the full free boundary traveling Navier-Stokes system of PDEs reduces to a governing system of ODEs. We find heteroclinic orbits solving these ODEs and, through a delicate fixed point argument employing the Stokes problem in thin domains and a nonautonomous orbital perturbation theory, use these ODE solutions as the germs from which we build bore PDE solutions for sufficiently shallow layers.
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spellingShingle Gravity driven traveling bore wave solutions to the free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
Stevenson, Noah
Tice, Ian
Analysis of PDEs
Primary 35Q35, 35C07, 76D33, Secondary 35B40, 35J66, 76A20, 76L05, 34C37, 35A24
We give the first mathematical construction of two-dimensional traveling bore wave solutions to the free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for a single finite depth layer of constant density fluid. Our construction is based on a rigorous justification of the formal shallow water limit, which postulates that in a certain scaling regime the full free boundary traveling Navier-Stokes system of PDEs reduces to a governing system of ODEs. We find heteroclinic orbits solving these ODEs and, through a delicate fixed point argument employing the Stokes problem in thin domains and a nonautonomous orbital perturbation theory, use these ODE solutions as the germs from which we build bore PDE solutions for sufficiently shallow layers.
title Gravity driven traveling bore wave solutions to the free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
topic Analysis of PDEs
Primary 35Q35, 35C07, 76D33, Secondary 35B40, 35J66, 76A20, 76L05, 34C37, 35A24
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24562