A couple of BO equations as a normal form for the interface problem

Abstract

We consider two fluids in a 2-dimensional region: The lower fluid occupies an infinitely depth region, while the upper fluid occupies a region with a fixed upper boundary. We study the dynamics of the interface between the two fluids (interface problem) in the limit in which the interface has a space periodic profile, is close to horizontal, and has a "long wave profile". We use a Hamiltonian normal form approach to show that up to corrections of second order, the equations are approximated by two decoupled Benjamin-Ono equations.

Keywords

• water waves
• benjamin-ono
• hamiltonian partial differential equations
• normal form