shallow water waves in a rotating rectangular basin浅水波在一个旋转的矩形盆地.pdf

Internat. J. Math. Math. Sci. Vol. 24, No. 10 (2000) 649–661 S0161171200004932 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. SHALLOW WATER WAVES IN A ROTATING RECTANGULAR BASIN MOHAMED ATEF HELAL (Received 28 July 1999) Abstract. This paper is mainly concerned with the motion of an incompressible fluid in a slowly rotating rectangular basin. The equations of motion of such a problem with its boundary conditions are reduced to a system of nonlinear equations, which is to be solved by applying the shallow water approximation theory. Each unknown of the problem is expanded asymptotically in terms of the small parameter which generally depends on some intrinsic quantities of the problem of study. For each order of approximation, the nonlinear system of equations is presented successively. It is worthy to note that such a study has useful applications in the oceanography. Keywords and phrases. Fluid waves, shallow water, rotating fluids. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 76B15, 76U05; Secondary 65N22, 65H10, 65Y10. 1. Introduction. Rotating fluids is an important topic in both fluid mechanics and oceanography, which attracted numerous scientists and researchers to investigate internal waves, surface waves, tidal waves, and pulses. Oceanographers discovered the importance of coriolis forces and so it must be included in the mathematical model. Rotating fluids in closed basins simulate many natural free surface flow problems like those of closed seas and lakes. Rotating fluid problems have often been tackled for cylindrical basins using the linear mathematical models (e.g., Brillon and Coulomb [1], Miles [15], Saint-Guily [21]) and rarely by the nonlinear model (cf. Helal and Badawi [9]). On the contrary, rotating fluids in