Volume 49, Issue 3
Legendre Pseudospectral Approximation of Boussinesq Systems and Applications to Wave Breaking

Magnar Bjørkavåg, Henrik Kalisch, Zahra Khorsand & Dimitrios Mitsotakis

J. Math. Study, 49 (2016), pp. 221-237.

Published online: 2016-09

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In this paper, we propose a spectral projection of a regularized Boussinesq system for wave propagation on the surface of a fluid. The spectral method is based on the use of Legendre polynomials, and is able to handle time-dependent Dirichlet boundary conditions with spectral accuracy.
The algorithm is applied to the study of undular bores, and in particular to the onset of wave breaking connected with undular bores. As proposed in [2], an improved version of the breaking criterion recently introduced in [5] is used. This tightened breaking criterion together with a careful choice of the relaxation parameter yields rather accurate predictions of the onset of breaking in the leading wave of an undular bore.

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35Q53, 65M70, 76B15, 76B25

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magnar.bjorkavag@math.uib.no (Magnar Bjørkavåg)

henrik.kalisch@uib.no (Henrik Kalisch)

zahra.khorsand@math.uib.no (Zahra Khorsand)

dimitrios.mitsotakis@vuw.ac.nz (Dimitrios Mitsotakis)

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@Article{JMS-49-221, author = {Bjørkavåg , MagnarKalisch , HenrikKhorsand , Zahra and Mitsotakis , Dimitrios}, title = {Legendre Pseudospectral Approximation of Boussinesq Systems and Applications to Wave Breaking}, journal = {Journal of Mathematical Study}, year = {2016}, volume = {49}, number = {3}, pages = {221--237}, abstract = {

In this paper, we propose a spectral projection of a regularized Boussinesq system for wave propagation on the surface of a fluid. The spectral method is based on the use of Legendre polynomials, and is able to handle time-dependent Dirichlet boundary conditions with spectral accuracy.
The algorithm is applied to the study of undular bores, and in particular to the onset of wave breaking connected with undular bores. As proposed in [2], an improved version of the breaking criterion recently introduced in [5] is used. This tightened breaking criterion together with a careful choice of the relaxation parameter yields rather accurate predictions of the onset of breaking in the leading wave of an undular bore.

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TY - JOUR T1 - Legendre Pseudospectral Approximation of Boussinesq Systems and Applications to Wave Breaking AU - Bjørkavåg , Magnar AU - Kalisch , Henrik AU - Khorsand , Zahra AU - Mitsotakis , Dimitrios JO - Journal of Mathematical Study VL - 3 SP - 221 EP - 237 PY - 2016 DA - 2016/09 SN - 49 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jms.v49n3.16.02 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jms/1000.html KW - Boussinesq system, Legendre projection, undular bore, wave breaking, boundary conditions, spectral accuracy. AB -

In this paper, we propose a spectral projection of a regularized Boussinesq system for wave propagation on the surface of a fluid. The spectral method is based on the use of Legendre polynomials, and is able to handle time-dependent Dirichlet boundary conditions with spectral accuracy.
The algorithm is applied to the study of undular bores, and in particular to the onset of wave breaking connected with undular bores. As proposed in [2], an improved version of the breaking criterion recently introduced in [5] is used. This tightened breaking criterion together with a careful choice of the relaxation parameter yields rather accurate predictions of the onset of breaking in the leading wave of an undular bore.

Magnar Bjørkavåg, Henrik Kalisch, Zahra Khorsand & Dimitrios Mitsotakis. (2020). Legendre Pseudospectral Approximation of Boussinesq Systems and Applications to Wave Breaking. Journal of Mathematical Study. 49 (3). 221-237. doi:10.4208/jms.v49n3.16.02
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