Fully nonlinear extensions of Boussinesq equations are derived to simulate surface wave propagation in coastal regions. By using the velocity at a certain depth as a dependent variable (Nwogu 1993), the resulting equations have significantly improved linear dispersion properties in intermediate water depths when compared to standard Boussinesq approximations. Since no assumption of small nonlin...

Considered here are Boussinesq systems of equations of surface water wave theory over a variable bottom. A simplified such Boussinesq system is derived and solved numerically by the standard Galerkin-finite element method. We study by numerical means the generation of tsunami waves due to bottom deformation and we compare the results with analytical solutions of the linearized Euler equations. ...

We study two coupled systems of nonlinear partial differential equations, namely, generalized Boussinesq-Burgers equations and 2 1 -dimensional Davey-Stewartson equations. The Lie symmetry method is utilized to obtain exact solutions of the generalized Boussinesq-Burgers equations. The travelling wave hypothesis approach is used to find exact solutions of the 2 1 dimensional Davey-Stewartson eq...

In this paper we consider the solution of the enhanced Boussinesq equations of Madsen and Sørensen (Coast.Eng. 18, 1992) by means of residual based discretizations. In particular, we investigate the applicability of upwind and stabilized variants of the Residual Distribution and Galerkin finite element schemes for the simulation of wave propagation and transformation over complex bathymetries. ...

A Boussinesq-type wave model is developed to numerically investigate the breaking waves and wave-induced currents. All the nonlinear terms are retained in the governing equations to keep fully nonlinearity characteristics and it hence more suitable to describe breaking waves with strong nonlinearity in the nearshore region. The Boussinesq equations are firstly extended to incorporate wave break...

In this report, generalized wave breaking equations are developed using three dimensional fully nonlinear extended Boussinesq equations to encompass rotational dynamics in wave breaking zone. The derivation for vorticity distributions are developed from Reynold based stress equations.

This paper describes the numerical model BOUSS-WMH (BOUSSinesq Wave Model for Harbours), a finite element model for nonlinear wave propagation near shore and into harbors. It is based upon an extended version of the Boussinesq equations to which terms were added to generate regular or irregular waves inside the numerical domain, absorb outgoing waves, partially reflect waves at physical boundar...

Zufiria’s higher-order Boussinesq type equations are studied by transforming them into solvable ordinary differential equations. Various families of their travelling wave solutions are generated, which include periodic wave, solitary wave, periodic-like wave, solitonlike wave, Jacobi elliptic function periodic wave, combined non-degenerative Jacobi elliptic function-like wave, Weierstrass ellip...

In this paper we further improve the modified extended tanh-function method to obtain new exact solutions for nonlinear partial differential equations. Numerical applications of the proposed method are verified by solving the improved Boussinesq equation and the system of variant Boussinesq equations. The new exact solutions for these equations include Jacobi elliptic doubly periodic type, Weie...

(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. ...