Lynett, Patrick; Liu, Philip L.-F. A two-layer approach to wave modelling. (English) Zbl 1070.76009 Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A, Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 460, No. 2049, 2637-2669 (2004). Summary: A set of model equations for water-wave propagation is derived by piecewise integration of primitive equations of motion through two arbitrary layers. Within each layer, an independent velocity profile is derived. With two separate velocity profiles, matched at the interface of the two layers, the resulting set of equations has three free parameters allowing for an optimization with known analytical properties of water waves. The optimized model equations show good linear wave characteristics up to \(kh\approx 6\), while the second-order nonlinear behaviour is captured to \(kh\approx 6\) as well (here \(kh\) is the wavenumber times depth). A numerical algorithm for solving the model equations is developed and tested against one- and two-horizontal-dimension cases. Agreement with laboratory data is excellent. Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 34 Documents MSC: 76B15 Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction 76B75 Flow control and optimization for incompressible inviscid fluids Keywords:optimization; Boussinesq equations PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{P. Lynett} and \textit{P. L. F. Liu}, Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A, Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 460, No. 2049, 2637--2669 (2004; Zbl 1070.76009) Full Text: DOI