The accurate numerical simulation of wave disturbance within harbours requires consideration of both nonlinear and dispersive wave processes in order to capture such physical effects as wave refraction and diffraction, and nonlinear wave interactions such as the generation of harmonic waves. The Boussinesq equations are the simplest class of mathematical model that contain all these effects in ...

The bifurcation analysis of the K (m, n) equation, which serves as a generalized model for the Korteweg-de Vries equation describing the dynamics of shallow water waves on ocean beaches and lake shores, is carried out in this paper. The phase portraits are given and solitary wave solutions are obtained. Singular periodic wave solutions are also given in this work.

A study of 400 Hz sound focusing and ducting effects in a packet of curved nonlinear internal waves in shallow water is presented. Sound propagation roughly along the crests of the waves is simulated with a three-dimensional parabolic equation computational code, and the results are compared to measured propagation along fixed 3 and 6 km source/receiver paths. The measurements were made on the ...

An extension of the wave propagation algorithm first introduced by LeVeque [J. Comp. Phys. 131, 327–353 (1997)] is developed for hyperbolic systems on a general curved manifold. This extension is important in a variety of applications, including the propagation of sound waves on a curved surface, shallow water flow on the surface of the Earth, shallow water magnetohydrodynamics in the solar tac...

Reciprocal transformations [1-3] are a useful tool in the study of integrable partial differential equations. Recently, there has been much interest in the equation of Fokas-Fuchssteiner-CamassaHolm (FFCH), originally derived by Fokas and Fuchssteiner [4] in the context of bi-Hamiltonian theory, and subsequently rederived as an equation for shallow water waves by Camassa and Holm [5]. The FFCH ...

This article takes the form of a tutorial on the use of a particular class of mixed finite element methods, which can be thought of as the finite element extension of the C-grid staggered finite difference method. The class is often referred to as compatible finite elements, mimetic finite elements, discrete differential forms or finite element exterior calculus. We provide an elementary introd...