arXiv · 2104.11570
Well-posedness of a nonlinear shallow water model for an oscillating water column with time-dependent air pressure
Abstract
We propose in this paper a new nonlinear mathematical model of an oscillating water column (OWC). The one-dimensional shallow water equations in the presence of this device is reformulated as a transmission problem related to the interaction between waves and a fixed partially-immersed structure. By imposing the conservation of the total fluid-OWC energy in the non-damped scenario, we are able to derive a transmission condition that involves a time-dependent air pressure inside the chamber of the device, instead of a constant atmospheric pressure as in \cite{bocchihevergara2021}. We then show that the transmission problem can be reduced to a quasilinear hyperbolic initial boundary value problem with a semi-linear boundary condition determined by an ODE depending on the trace of the solution to the PDE at the boundary. Local well-posedness for general problems of this type is established via an iterative scheme by using linear estimates for the PDE and nonlinear estimates for the ODE.
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Edoardo Bocchi, Jiao He, Gastón Vergara-Hermosilla. 2021-04-23. Well-posedness of a nonlinear shallow water model for an oscillating water column with time-dependent air pressure. https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11570
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