At the core of this article is an improved, sharp dispersive estimate for the anisotropic linear semigroup e1 arising in both the study of the dispersive SQG equation and the inviscid Boussinesq system. We combine the decay estimate with a blow-up criterion to show how dispersion leads to long-time existence of solutions to the dispersive SQG equation, improving the results obtained using hyper...

We consider the ‘classical’ Boussinesq system of water wave theory, which belongs to the class of Boussinesq systems modelling two-way propagation of long waves of small amplitude on the surface of water in a horizontal channel. (We also consider its completely symmetric analog). We discretize the initial-boundary-value problem for these systems, corresponding to homogeneous Dirichlet boundary ...

In turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection (a fluid between two parallel horizontal plates and heated from below) a transition was predicted to occur [1,2] with increasing Rayleigh number Ra from a ‘‘classical’’ state with laminar boundary layers (BLs) to an ‘‘ultimate’’ state with turbulent BLs. Recently, this transition was found in measurements of the Nusselt number Nu and Reynolds number Re as...

In this paper, a Boussinesq equation is solved by using the Adomian's decomposition method, modified Adomian's decomposition method and homotopy analysis method. The approximate solution of this equation is calculated in the form of series which its components are computed by applying a recursive relation. The existence and uniqueness of the solution and the convergence of the proposed methods ...

The global Galerkin method is applied to the benchmark problem that considers an oscillatory regime of convection of air in a tall two-dimensional rectangular cavity. The three most unstable modes of the linearized system of the Boussinesq equations are studied. The converged values of the critical Rayleigh numbers together with the corresponding oscillation frequencies are calculated for each ...

A composite lattice model is proposed to describe nonlinear waves in a two-layered waveguide with adhesive bonding. We begin by considering waves in an anharmonic chain of oscillating dipoles and show that the corresponding asymptotic long wave model for longitudinal waves coincides with the Boussinesq-type equation, earlier derived for a macroscopic waveguide using the nonlinear elasticity app...

By using the long-wave approximation, a system of coupled evolution equations for the bulk velocity and the surface perturbations of a BénardMarangoni system is obtained. It includes nonlinearity, dispersion and dissipation, and it can be interpreted as a dissipative generalization of the usual Boussinesq system of equations. As a particular case, a strictly dissipative version of the Boussines...

In this paper we study the validity of the so-called Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation for compressible viscous perfect gases in the whole three-dimensional space. Both the cases of fluids with positive heat conductivity and zero conductivity are considered. For small perturbations of a constant equilibrium, we establish the global existence of unique strong solutions in a critical regularity f...

(Received July 23, 2013; in nal form February 26, 2014) In this paper, the (G′/G, 1/G) and (1/G′)-expansion methods with the aid of Maple are used to obtain new exact traveling wave solutions of the Boussinesq equation and the system of variant Boussinesq equations. The travelling wave solutions are expressed by the hyperbolic functions, the trigonometric functions, and the rational functions. ...

A Wronskian formulation leading to rational solutions is presented for the Boussinesq equation. It involves third-order linear partial differential equations, whose representative systems are systematically solved. The resulting solutions formulas provide a direct but powerful approach for constructing rational solutions, positon solutions and complexiton solutions to the Boussinesq equation. V...