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Six wave interaction equations in finite-depth gravity waves with surface tension

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2023

Mark J. Ablowitz
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Campus Box 526, Boulder, CO 80309-0526, USA
Xu-Dan Luo
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Mathematics Mechanization, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China
Ziad H. Musslimani*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: musslimani@math.fsu.edu

Abstract

Three wave resonant triad interactions in two space and one time dimensions form a well-known system of first-order quadratically nonlinear evolution equations that arise in many areas of physics. In deep water waves, they were first derived by Simmons in 1969 and later shown to be exactly solvable by Ablowitz & Haberman in 1975. Specifically, integrability was established by introducing a system of six wave interactions whose symmetry reduction leads to the well-known three wave equations. Here, it is shown that the six wave interaction and classical three wave equations satisfying triad resonance conditions in finite-depth gravity waves can be derived from the non-local integro-differential formulation of the free surface gravity wave equation with surface tension. These quadratically nonlinear six wave interaction equations and their reductions to the classical and non-local complex as well as real reverse space–time three wave interaction equations are integrable. Limits to infinite and shallow water depth are also discussed.

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press
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Figure 1. One-dimensional resonant triad curves satisfying the wavenumber–frequency resonance condition $k_3=k_1+k_2$ and $\omega _3=\omega _1+\omega _2.$ All wavenumbers are measured in units of $\textrm{cm}^{-1}$ and depth $h$ in cm. The numerical values for the depth $h$ and surface tension used to produce the figure are respectively given by (a) $h=0.5\ \textrm{cm}$; $\sigma = 81\ \textrm{cm}^3\ \textrm{s}^{-2}$, (b) $h=0.6\ \textrm{cm}$; $\sigma = 81\ \textrm{cm}^3\ \textrm{s}^{-2}$ and (c) $h=2\ \textrm{cm}$; $\sigma = 73\ \textrm{cm}^3\ \textrm{s}^{-2}$. Shown in (d) is the graph of the tanh function for various values of depth. The full circles indicate typical wavenumber values leading to (a) shallow-depth limit with $k_1h\approx 0.15; k_2h\approx 0.15$ and $k_3h\approx 0.3$; (b) finite depth with $k_1h\approx 0.9; k_2h\approx 1.2$ and $k_3h\approx 1.5$; and (d) infinite-depth limit when $k_1h\approx 5; k_2h\approx 5.2$ and $k_3h\approx 10.2$.

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Figure 2. One-dimensional resonant triad curves satisfying the wavenumber–frequency resonance condition $k_3=k_1+k_2$ and $\omega _3=\omega _1+\omega _2.$ All wavenumbers are measured in units of $\textrm{cm}^{-1}$ and depth $h$ in cm. The numerical values for the depth $h$ and surface tension used to produce the figure are respectively given by (a) $h=0.475\ \textrm{cm}$; $\sigma = 73 \ \textrm{cm}^3\ \textrm{s}^{-2}$, (b) $h=0.52\ \textrm{cm}$; $\sigma = 73 \ \textrm{cm}^3\ \textrm{s}^{-2}$. The full circles indicate typical wavenumber values leading to (a) shallow-depth limit with $k_1h\approx 0.152; k_2h\approx 0.175$ and $k_3h\approx 0.33$; (b) finite depth with $k_1h\approx 0.75; k_2h\approx 0.75$ and $k_3h\approx 1.5$.

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Figure 3. Two-dimensional resonant triad curves satisfying the wavenumber–frequency resonance condition ${\boldsymbol k}_3={\boldsymbol k}_1+{\boldsymbol k}_2$ and $\omega _3=\omega _1+\omega _2.$ All wavenumbers are measured in units of $\textrm{cm}^{-1}$ and depth in cm. In all cases, the surface tension coefficient is taken to be $\sigma = 73 \ \textrm{cm}^3\ \textrm{s}^{-2}.$ The wavenumbers and depth are as follows: (a) $k_{1x}=k_{1y} = 0.7 \ \textrm{cm}^{-1}$ and depth $h=0.35\ \textrm{cm}$, (b) $k_{1x}=k_{1y} = 1.5 \ \textrm{cm}^{-1}$ and depth $h=0.6\ \textrm{cm}$, (c) $k_{1x}=k_{1y} = 2 \ \textrm{cm}^{-1}$ and depth $h=2\ \textrm{cm}$. Furthermore, we show in (d) the graph of tanh function for various values of depth $h$ that help identify the three limiting regimes of shallow, finite and deep depth. As is the case with figure 1, here, full circles indicate typical wavenumber values leading to (a) shallow-depth limit with $k_1h\approx 0.35; k_2h\approx 0.19$ and $k_3h\approx 0.5$; (b) finite depth with $k_1h\approx 1.3; k_2h\approx 1.1$ and $k_3h\approx 2.4$ and (d) infinite-depth limit when $k_1h\approx 5.6; k_2h\approx 4.6$ and $k_3h\approx 10.$