Note on the stability of viscous roll waves

Blake Barker; Mathew A. Johnson; Pascal Noble; Luis Miguel Rodrigues; Kevin Zumbrun

doi:10.1016/j.crme.2016.11.001

Note on the stability of viscous roll waves

Blake Barker ¹; Mathew A. Johnson ²; Pascal Noble ³ ; Luis Miguel Rodrigues ⁴; Kevin Zumbrun ⁵

¹ Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
² Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
³ Institut de mathématiques de Toulouse, UMR5219, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INSA, 31077 Toulouse, France
⁴ IRMAR – UMR CNRS 6625, Université de Rennes-1, 35042 Rennes, France
⁵ Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Volume 345 (2017) no. 2, pp. 125-129.

Abstract
Résumé

In this note, we announce a complete classification of the stability of periodic roll-wave solutions of the viscous shallow water equations, from their onset at Froude number $F \approx 2$ up to the infinite Froude limit. For intermediate Froude numbers, we obtain numerically a particularly simple power-law relation between F and the boundaries of the region of stable periods, which appears potentially useful in hydraulic engineering applications. In the asymptotic regime $F \to 2$ (onset), we provide an analytic expression of the stability boundaries, whereas in the limit $F \to \infty$ , we show that roll waves are always unstable.

Les roll waves sont des ondes progressives périodiques hydrodynamiques, modélisées comme des solutions des équations de Saint-Venant. Dans cette note, nous annonçons une classification complète des roll waves stables de leur apparition à F (le nombre de Froude) proche de 2 à $F \to \infty$ . Pour les nombres de Froude intermédiaires, nous avons mené une étude numérique des critères de stabilité spectrale. Dans le régime asymptotique $F \to 2$ , nous donnons une expression analytique des limites de stabilité, alors que pour $F \to \infty$ , nous montrons que les roll waves sont toujours instables.

Received: 2016-06-07
Accepted: 2016-11-07
Published online: 2016-12-03

DOI: 10.1016/j.crme.2016.11.001

Keywords: Fluid mechanics, Shallow water flows, Roll waves
Mots-clés : Mécanique des fluides, Écoulements peu profonds, Roll waves

Author's affiliations:

Blake Barker ¹; Mathew A. Johnson ²; Pascal Noble ³; Luis Miguel Rodrigues ⁴; Kevin Zumbrun ⁵

¹ Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
² Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
³ Institut de mathématiques de Toulouse, UMR5219, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INSA, 31077 Toulouse, France
⁴ IRMAR – UMR CNRS 6625, Université de Rennes-1, 35042 Rennes, France
⁵ Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

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Blake Barker; Mathew A. Johnson; Pascal Noble; Luis Miguel Rodrigues; Kevin Zumbrun. Note on the stability of viscous roll waves. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Volume 345 (2017) no. 2, pp. 125-129. doi : 10.1016/j.crme.2016.11.001. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mecanique/articles/10.1016/j.crme.2016.11.001/

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