Published November 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Singularity formations for a surface wave model

  • 1. Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid (Spain)
  • 2. Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, 5734 University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 (United States)

Description

In this paper we study the Burgers equation with a nonlocal term of the form Hu where H is the Hilbert transform. This system has been considered as a quadratic approximation for the dynamics of a free boundary of a vortex patch (see Biello and Hunter 2010 Commun. Pure Appl. Math. LXIII 0303–36; Marsden and Weinstein 1983 Physica D 7 305–23). We prove blowup in finite time for a large class of initial data with finite energy. Considering a more general nonlocal term, of the form ΛαHu for 0 < α < 1, finite time singularity formation is also shown

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/23/11/006

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0951-7715/23/11/006;
PII
S0951-7715(10)59006-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nonlinearity (Print)
Journal Volume
23
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
p. 2835-2847
ISSN
0951-7715

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45034500
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
APPROXIMATIONS; HILBERT TRANSFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SINGULARITY; VORTICES; WAVE PROPAGATION
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TRANSFORMATIONS