Water Waves: Nonlinear Theory

Ilia Mindlin

Published 2022-02-20Version 1

A novel mathematical nonlinear theory of surface gravity waves in deep water is presented, in which analytical analysis of the classical nonlinear equations of fluid dynamics is performed under less restrictive assumptions than those applied by existing theories. In particular, the new theory ensures uniqueness of the solution without the need to employ the so-called radiation condition, and its solutions are such that the liquid always remains at rest at infinity, and the energy supplied to the water by a source of disturbances is finite at all times - all that in contrast with conventional approaches that operate in terms of spatially-infinite harmonic waves. The new theory accounts for the non-linearity of the problem, and yields solutions valid at all times, from zero (the time of setting initial conditions) to infinity. The author describes previously unknown patterns in wave evolution, and confirms those patterns with the experimental results by other researchers.