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Effects of inertia and stratification in incompressible ideal fluids: pressure imbalances by rigid confinement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2013

R. Camassa ,
S. Chen ,
G. Falqui ,
G. Ortenzi  and
M. Pedroni
R. Camassa
Affiliation:
Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
S. Chen
Affiliation:
Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
G. Falqui
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, 20125, Italy
G. Ortenzi*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, 20125, Italy
M. Pedroni
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università di Bergamo, Dalmine (BG), 24044, Italy
*
†Email address for correspondence: giovanni.ortenzi@unimib.it
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Abstract

Consequences of density stratification are studied for an ideal (Euler) incompressible fluid, confined to move under gravity between rigid lids but otherwise free to move along horizontal directions. Initial conditions that generate horizontal pressure imbalances in a laterally unbounded domain are examined. The aim is to show analytically the existence of classes of initial data for which total horizontal momentum evolves in time, even though only vertical forces act on the fluid in this set-up. A simple class of such initial conditions, leading to momentum evolution, is identified by systematic asymptotic expansions of the governing inhomogeneous Euler equations in the small-density-variation limit. These results for Euler equations are compared and confirmed with long-wave asymptotic models, which can handle arbitrary density variations and provide closed-form mathematical expressions for limiting cases. In particular, the role of wave dispersion arising from the fluid inertia is captured by the long-wave models, even for short-time dynamics emanating from initial conditions outside the models’ asymptotic range of validity. These results are compared with direct numerical simulations for variable-density Euler fluids, which further validate the numerical algorithms and the analysis.

JFM classification

Waves/Free-surface Flows: Channel flow Mathematical Foundations: Mathematical Foundations Geophysical and Geological Flows: Stratified flows
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 726 , 10 July 2013 , pp. 404 - 438
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©2013 Cambridge University Press 

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