On a particular form of stabilized capillary-gravitational waves of finite amplitude at the surface of fluid over an undulating bed: PMM vol. 37, n≗6, 1973, pp. 1020–1034

Abstract

The problem of stabilized plane capillary-gravitational waves of finite amplitude at the surface of a stream of perfect incompressible fluid flowing over an undulating bed and subjected to pressure periodically distributed along the surface and defined by some infinite trigonometric series is considered. The intersection of the bed with a vertical plane is assumed to be a periodic curve, called the bed line, defined by some infinite trigonometric series. The problem is rigorously formulated and reduced to the solution of a system of nonlinear integral and transcendental equations. The solution is constructed in the form of series in powers of a small dimensionless parameter to which amplitudes of the first harmonics of the bed line and of the surface pressure wave are proportional. An approximate equation is derived for the wave profile. The particular case is considered, when the length of the bed line wave arc is equal to the length of the stabilized free wave line corresponding to the specified flow velocity over a horizontal flat bed and constant pressure along the surface. In such case the parameter of the integral equation is equal to one of the eigenvalues of the kernel of that equation and the solution is constructed in the form of series in powers of the cube root of the small parameter mentioned above. A similar problem but for constant pressure along the surface was considered by the author in [1, 2] and in his paper presented at the 13-th International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Moscow, 1972 [3]). Another similar problem of capillary-gravitational waves over an undulating bed was considered in [4], where besides the topological proof of the existence and uniqueness of solution the algorithm for constructing the latter is given, but the calculation of approximations is only outlined and the mechanical meaning of solution is not investigated in depth. Unlike in [4] the equation of the bed line and the expression for pressure at the surface are specified here in a form which makes it possible to express any approximations in the form of finite sums, and an analysis of the fundamental system of nonlinear integral and transcendental equations by the LiapunovSchmidt analytical methods and their developments is presented.