Higher order Boussinesq equations

✍ Scribed by Z.L. Zou

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 251 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0029-8018
• DOI: 10.1016/s0029-8018(98)00019-5

✦ Synopsis

A new form of Boussinesq-type equations accurate to the third order are derived in this paper to improve the linear dispersion and nonlinearity characteristics in deeper water. Fourth spatial derivatives in the third order terms of the equations are transformed into second derivatives and present no difficulty in numerical computations. With the increase in accuracy of the equations, the nonlinear and dispersion characteristics of the equations are of one order of magnitude higher accuracy than those of the classical Boussinesq equations. The equations can serve as a fully nonlinear model for shallow water waves. The shoaling property of the equations is also of high accuracy through shallow water to deep water by introducing an extra source term into the second order continuity equation. An approach to increase the accuracy of the nonlinear characteristics of the new equations is introduced. The expression for the vertical distribution of the horizontal velocities is a fourth order polynomial.