On the Rigid-Lid Approximation for Two Shallow Layers of Immiscible Fluids with Small Density Contrast
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چکیده
The rigid-lid approximation is a commonly used simplification in the study of densitystratified fluids in oceanography. Roughly speaking, one assumes that the displacements of the surface are negligible compared with interface displacements. In this paper, we offer a rigorous justification of this approximation in the case of two shallow layers of immiscible fluids with constant and quasi-equal mass density. More precisely, we control the difference between the solutions of the Cauchy problem predicted by the shallow-water (Saint-Venant) system in the rigid-lid and free-surface configuration. We show that in the limit of small density contrast, the flow may be accurately described as the superposition of a baroclinic (or slow) mode, which is well predicted by the rigid-lid approximation; and a barotropic (or fast) mode, whose initial smallness persists for large time. We also describe explicitly the first-order behavior of the deformation of the surface, and discuss the case of non-small initial barotropic mode.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Nonlinear Science
دوره 24 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014