@Article{JMS-49-3, author = {Magnar, Bjørkavåg and Kalisch, Henrik and Zahra, Khorsand 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.