Freak Waves in Shallow Water Josh Moser & Chris Wai
Rogue waves are being reported more and more in today’s world.
The dispersion relation describes the physics of the waves,
The spread of the waves is then dependent on the wavelength as shown in k, the wave number. To create a freak wave, it is thought of having the exact dispersion relation in which multiple waves meet up at some time and space, generating a freak wave.
The Korteweg-de Vries equation is a nonlinear, partial differential equation that has applications to water waves
Small-amplitude waves in shallow water is a statement of weak nonlinearity
Plugging into the linearized KdV equation to find the ordinary differential equation
So now we have an equation that looks like an Airy Integral
Now we can make simple substitutions to exploit what is known
We know that this is in the form of the Airy Integral using slow time and slow space scales
Substitutions can be made to convert it back to real time and space scales for the wavemaker
Now consider different initial conditions
How do we generate these waves?
Mass flux
In conclusion Lot’s of differential equations Very mathy Had a lot of fun
Things to do next and new questions to ask Find numerical solution and try to replicate results See how the data can be used to predict freak waves that may come into the coast Find how the sea in real life translates to boundary and initial conditions Find the set of the conditions that cause freak waves at the shore Predict and “control” Save lives
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