Finite volume and pseudo-spectral schemes for the fully nonlinear 1D Serre equations

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1 Euro. Jnl of Applied Mathematics: page 1 of 7 c Cambridge University Press 13 doi:1.117/s Finite volume and pseudo-spectral schemes for the fully nonlinear 1D Serre equations DENYS DUTYKH 1, DIDIER CLAMOND, PAUL MILEWSKI 3 and DIMITRIOS MITSOTAKIS 1 School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland, and LAMA, UMR 517 CNRS, Université de Savoie, Campus Scientifique, 7337 Le Bourget-du-Lac Cede, France Denys.Dutykh@ucd.ie Laboratoire J.-A. Dieudonné, Université de Nice, Sophia Antipolis, Parc Valrose, 1 Nice Cede, France diderc@unice.fr 3 Deptartment of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA 7JX, UK P.A.Milewski@bath.ac.uk University of California, Merced, 5 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 9353, USA dmitsot@gmail.com 1 (Received 3 July 1; revised 3 April 13; accepted 3 April 13) After we derive the Serre system of equations of water wave theory from a generalized variational principle, we present some of its structural properties. We also propose a robust and accurate finite volume scheme to solve these equations in one horizontal dimension. The numerical discretization is validated by comparisons with analytical and eperimental data or other numerical solutions obtained by a highly accurate pseudo-spectral method. Key words: Serre equations; Finite volumes; UNO scheme; IMEX scheme; Spectral methods; Euler equations; Free surface flows 1 Introduction 3 5 The full water wave problem consisting of the Euler equations with a free surface is still very difficult to study theoretically and even numerically. Consequently, the water wave 7 theory has always been developed through the derivation, analysis and comprehension of various approimate models (see the historical review of Craik [] for more information). 9 For this reason, a plethora of approimate models have been derived under various 3 physical assumptions. In this family, the Serre equations have a particular place and 31 are the subject of the present study. The Serre equations can be derived from the Euler 3 equations, contrary to the Boussinesq systems or the shallow water system, without the 33 small amplitude or the hydrostatic assumptions respectively. The Serre equations are named after François Serre, an engineer at École Nationale des 35 Ponts et Chaussées, who derived this model for the first time in 1953 in his prominent paper 3 entitled Contribution àl étude des écoulements permanents et variables dans les canau 37 (see [59]). Later, these equations were independently rediscovered by Su and Gardner [] 3 and Green et al. [3]. The etension of the Serre equations for general uneven bathymetries

2 D. Dutykh et al was derived by Seabra-Santos et al. [5]. In the Soviet literature these equations were known as the Zheleznyak Pelinovsky model [75]. For some generalizations and new results we refer to recent studies by Barthélémy [7], Dias and Milewski [5] and Carter and Cienfuegos [1]. A variety of numerical methods have been applied to discretize dispersive wave models and, more specifically, the Serre equations. A pseudo-spectral method was applied in [5], an implicit finite difference scheme in [7, 53] and a compact higher order scheme in [1, 17]. Some Galerkin and finite element-type methods have been successfully applied to Boussinesq-type equations [3,, 7, 5]. A finite difference discretization based on an integral formulation was proposed by Bona and Chen [1]. Recently, efficient high-order eplicit or implicit eplicit finite volume schemes for dispersive wave equations have been developed [15, 33]. The robustness of the proposed numerical schemes also allowed simulating the run-up of long waves on a beach with high accuracy [33]. The present study is a further etension of the finite volume method to the practically important case of the Serre equations. We also develop a pseudo-spectral Fourier-type method to validate the proposed finite volume scheme. In all cases where the spectral method is applicable, it outperforms the finite volumes. However, the former is applicable only to smooth solutions in periodic domains, while the area of applicability of the latter is much broader, including dispersive shocks (or undular bores) [3], nonperiodic domains etc. The present paper is organized as follows. In Section we provide a derivation of the Serre equations from a relaed Lagrangian principle and discuss some structural properties of the governing equations. The rationale on the employed finite volume scheme are given in Section 3. A very accurate pseudo-spectral method for the numerical solution of the Serre equations is presented in Section. In Section 5, we present convergence tests and numerical eperiments validating the model and the numerical schemes. Finally, Section contains the main conclusions Mathematical model Consider an ideal incompressible fluid of constant density ρ. The vertical projection of the fluid domain Ω is a subset of. The horizontal independent variables are denoted by =( 1, ) and the upward vertical one by y. The origin of the Cartesian coordinate system is chosen such that the surface y = corresponds to the still water level. The fluid is bounded below by an impermeable bottom at y = d(,t) and above by the free surface located at y = η(,t). We assume that the total depth h(,t) d(,t)+η(,t) remains positive h(,t) h > at all times t. The sketch of the physical domain is shown in Figure Remark 1 We make the classical assumption that the free surface is a graph y = η(,t) of a single-valued function. This means that in practice we eclude some interesting phenomena, (e.g. wave breaking) which are out of the scope of this modelling paradigm.

3 Numerical schemes for the Serre equations 3 η(,t) y O d h(,t) Figure 1. (Colour online) Sketch of the physical domain. 79 Assuming that the flow is incompressible and irrotational, following are the governing equations of the classical water wave problem [, 9, 3, 71]: φ + y φ = d(,t) y η(,t), (.1) t η + ( φ) ( η) y φ = y = η(,t), (.) t φ + 1 φ + 1 ( yφ) + gη = y = η(,t), (.3) d t + ( d) ( φ) + y φ = y = d(,t), (.) with φ being the velocity potential (by definition, the irrotational velocity field (u,v) = ( φ, y φ)), g is the acceleration due to the gravity force and =( 1, ) denotes the gradient operator in horizontal Cartesian coordinates and φ ( φ) ( φ). The incompressibility condition leads to the Laplace equation for φ. The main difficulty of the water wave problem lies on the nonlinear free surface boundary conditions and that the free surface shape is unknown. Equations (.) and (.) epress the freesurface kinematic condition and bottom impermeability respectively, whereas the dynamic condition (.3) epresses the free surface isobarity. The water wave problem possesses several variational structures [11, 7, 55, 7, 73]. In the present study, we will focus mainly on the Lagrangian variational formalism, but not eclusively. The surface gravity wave equations (.1) (.) can be derived by minimizing the following functional proposed by Luke [7]: t η L = L ρ d [ dt, L = gy + t φ + 1 ( φ) + 1 ( y φ) ] dy. (.5) t 1 Ω d In a recent study, Clamond and Dutykh [] proposed using Luke s Lagrangian (.5) in the following relaed form: L =(η t + μ η ν) φ + (d t + ˇμ d + ˇν) ˇφ 1 gη η [ + μ u 1 u + νv 1 v +( μ + ν y ) φ ] dy, (.) d where {u,v,μ,ν} are the horizontal, vertical velocities and associated Lagrange multipliers respectively. The additional variables {μ,ν} (Lagrange multipliers) are called pseudovelocities. The tildes and wedges denote, respectively, a quantity computed at the free

4 D. Dutykh et al surface y = η(,t) and at the bottom y = d(,t). We shall also denote below with bars the quantities averaged over the water depth. While the original Lagrangian (.5) incorporates only two variables (η and φ), the relaed Lagrangian density (.) involves si variables {η, φ, u,v,μ,ν}. These additional degrees of freedom provide us with more fleibility in constructing various approimations. For more details, eplanations and eamples we refer to [] Derivation of the Serre equations Now we illustrate the practical use of the variational principle (.) on an eample borrowed from []. First of all, we choose a simple shallow water ansatz, which is a zeroth-order polynomial in y for φ and for u, and a first-order one for v, i.e. we approimate flows that are nearly uniform along the vertical direction φ φ(,t), u ū(,t), v (y + d)(η + d) 1 ṽ(,t). (.7) 19 We have also to introduce suitable ansatz for the Lagrange multiplier μ and ν μ μ(,t), ν (y + d)(η + d) 1 ν(,t) In the remainder of this paper, we will assume for simplicity the bottom to be flat d(,t) = d = Cst (the application of this method to uneven bottoms can be found in [3, 31], for eample). With this ansatz the Lagrangian density (.) becomes L = (η t + μ η) φ 1 gη +(η + d) [ μ ū 1 ū ν ṽ 1 ṽ + φ μ ]. (.) 113 Finally, we impose a constraint of the free surface impermeability, i.e. ν = η t + μ η After substituting the last relation into the Lagrangian density (.), the Euler Lagrange equations and some algebra lead to the following equations: h t + [ h ū ] =, (.9) ū t + 1 ū + g h h 1 [ h γ ] = (ū h) (h ū) [ ū (h ū)] h, (.1) 11 where we eliminated φ, μ and ṽ and where γ ṽ t + ū ṽ = h { ( ū) ū t ū [ ū ] } (.11) is the fluid vertical acceleration at the free surface. The vertical velocity at the free surface ṽ can be epressed in terms of other variables as well, i.e. ṽ = η t +( φ) ( η) η.

5 Numerical schemes for the Serre equations In two dimensions (one horizontal dimension) the sum of two terms on the righthand side of (.1) vanishes and the system (.9) (.1) reduces to the classical Serre equations [59]. 1 1 Remark In [] it is eplained why equations (.9) and (.1) cannot be obtained from 13 the classical Luke s Lagrangian. One of the main reasons is that the horizontal velocity ū does not derive from the potential φ using a simple gradient operation. Thus, a relaed 15 form of the Lagrangian density (.) is necessary for the variational derivation of the 1 Serre equations (.9), (.1) (see also [] and [5]) Remark 3 In some applications in coastal engineering it is required to estimate the loading eerted by water waves onto vertical structures []. The pressure can be computed in the framework of the Serre equations as well. For the first time these quantities were computed in the pioneering paper by Zheleznyak [7]. Here for simplicity we provide the epressions in two space dimensions, which were derived in [7]. The pressure distribution inside the fluid column being given by P(, y, t) ρgd = η y d [ (h + 1 ) d one can compute the force F eerted on a vertical wall: ] ( 1+ y ) d γd gh, F(, t) η ρgd = d ( P 1 ρgd dy = + γ 3 g )( ) h. d 13 Finally, the tilting moment M relative to the sea bed is given by the following formula: M(, t) η ρgd 3 = d ( P 1 (y + d)dy = ρgd3 + γ g )( ) 3 h. d Generalized Serre equations A further generalization of the Serre equations can be obtained if we modify slightly the shallow water ansatz (.7) following again the ideas from []: φ φ(, t), u ū(, t), v [ ] λ y + d ṽ(, t). η + d In the following we consider for simplicity the two-dimensional (D) case and put μ = u and ν = v together with the constraint ṽ = η t + ũη (free-surface impermeability). Thus, the Lagrangian density (.) becomes L = ( h t +[h ū ] ) φ 1 gη + 1 h ū + 1 βh( η t + ūη ), (.1)

6 D. Dutykh et al where β =(λ +1) 1. After some algebra, the Euler Lagrange equations lead to the following equations: h t + [h ū ] =, (.13) ū t + ū ū + gh + βh 1 [ h γ ] =, (.1) 13 where γ is defined as above (.11). If β = 1 3 (or, equivalently, λ = 1), the classical Serre 1 equations (.9), (.1) are recovered. 15 Using equations (.13) and (.1) one can show that the following relations hold [ h ū ] t + [ h ū + 1 gh + βh γ ] =, [ ū βh 1 (h 3 ū ) ] t + [ 1 ū + gh 1 h ū β ūh 1 (h 3 ū ) ] =, [ h ū β (h 3 ū ) ] t + [ h ū + 1 gh βh 3 ū βh 3 ū ū h h ū ū =, (.15) ] [ 1 h ū + 1 βh3 ū + ] 1 gh + [( 1 t ū + 1 βh ū + gh + βh γ ) h ū ] =. Physically, these relations represent conservations of the momentum, quantity q = ū βh 1 (h 3 ū ), its flu q := h ū β (h 3 ū ) and the total energy respectively. Moreover, the Serre equations are invariant under the Galilean transformation. This property is naturally inherited from the full water wave problem, since our ansatz does not destroy this symmetry [] and the derivation is made according to variational principles. Equations (.13) (.1) admit a (π/k)-periodic cnoidal travelling wave solution ū = cη d + η, η = a dn( 1 ( ct) m) E/K 1 E/K (.1) = a H sn ( 1 ( ct) m), (.17) where dn and sn are the Jacobian elliptic functions with parameter m ( m 1), and where K =K(m) ande =E(m) are the complete elliptic integrals of the first and second kind respectively [1]. The wave parameters are given by the relations k = π K, H = mak K E, ( d) = gh mβc, (.1) gh(d + a)(d + a H) m = g (d + a) (d + a H) d c. (.19) However, in the present study, we are interested in the classical solitary wave solution, which is recovered in the limiting case m 1 η = a sech 1 cη ( ct), ū = d + η, c = g(d + a), ( d) a = β(d + a). (.) 1 11 For illustrative purposes, a solitary wave along with a cnoidal wave of the same amplitude a =.5 is depicted in Figure.

7 Numerical schemes for the Serre equations 7. Solitary wave solution. Cnoidal wave solution η(, )..1 η(, ) (a) Solitary wave (b) Cnoidal wave Figure. Two eact solutions to the Serre equations. The solitary wave amplitude is equal to a =.5. For the cnoidal wave, parameters m and a are equal to.99 and.5 respectively. Other cnoidal wave parameters are deduced from relations (.1) and (.19). 1 Using the eact solitary wave solution (.) we can assess the accuracy of the Serre 13 equations (with β = 1 3 ) by making comparisons with corresponding solutions to the 1 original full Euler equations. The procedure we use to construct travelling wave solu- 15 tions to the Euler equations is described in [1]. The Matlab script used to generate 1 these profiles (up to machine precision) can be freely downloaded from the File E- 17 change server [19]. The results of comparison for several values of the speed parameter 1 c are presented in Figure 3. We can see that solitary waves to the Serre equations ap- 19 proimate fairly well with the full Euler solutions approimately up to the amplitude 17 a/d = 1. We note that similar conclusions were obtained in a previous study by Li et al. 171 [] Invariants of the Serre equations Henceforth we consider only the D case. As pointed out by Li [5], the classical Serre equations possess a non-canonical Hamiltonian structure which can be easily generalized for the model (.13), (.1) ( ) ( ) ht δh /δ q =, q t δh /δh where the Hamiltonian functional H and the symplectic operator are defined as H = 1 The variable q is defined by [ h ū + βh 3 ū + gη ] [ ] h d, =. q + q h q h ū β [ h 3 ū ]. The conservation of the quantity q was established in equation (.15).

8 D. Dutykh et al.. Euler Serre. Euler Serre.5.5 η(, )/d..3 η(, )/d /d (a) c = /d (b) c =1.15. Euler Serre. Euler Serre.5.5 η(, )/d..3 η(, )/d /d (c) c = /d (d) c =1.5 Figure 3. Comparison of solitary wave solutions to the Serre and full Euler equations According to [5], one-parameter symmetry groups of the Serre equations include the space translation ( + ε, t, h, u), the time translation (, t + ε, h, u), the Galilean boost ( + εt,t,h,u+ ε) and the scaling e ε (e ε, t, e ε h, u). Using the first three symmetry groups and the symplectic operator, one may recover the following invariants: Q = η q d, H, d + η [ t q η] d. (.1) 13 Obviously, equation (.13) leads to an invariant closely related to the mass conservation property η d. The scaling does not yield any conserved quantity with respect to the 15 symplectic operator. Below we are going to use etensively the generalized energy 1 H and the generalized momentum Q conservation to assess the accuracy of numerical 17 schemes in addition to the eact analytical solution (.).

9 Numerical schemes for the Serre equations Finite volume scheme and numerical results In the present study we propose a finite volume discretization procedure [5, ] for the Serre equations (.13), (.1) that we rewrite here as h t + [hu] =, (3.1) u t + [ 1 u + gh ] = [ βh 1 h 3 (u t + uu u ) ], (3.) where the overbars have been omitted for brevity. (In this section, overbars denote quantities averaged over a cell as eplained below.) We begin our presentation by the discretization of the hyperbolic part of the equations (which are simply the classical Saint Venant equations) and then discuss the treatment of dispersive terms. The Serre equations can be formally put under the quasi-linear form V t + [F (V )] = S(V ), (3.3) where V and F (V ) are the conservative variables and the advective flu function respectively, ( ) ( ) h hu V, F (V ) 1. u u + gh ThesourcetermS(V ) denotes the right-hand side of (3.1) and (3.) and thus also depends on space and time derivatives of V. The Jacobian of the advective flu F (V ) can be easily computed (V ) = F (V ) [ ] u h =. V g u The Jacobian (V ) has two distinctive eigenvalues, λ ± = u ± c s, c s gh The corresponding right and left eigenvectors are provided here [ ] h h =, = 1 = 1 [ ] h 1 c 1 s h 1. c s c s We consider a partition of the real line into cells (or finite volumes) C i =[ i 1, i+ 1 ] with cell centres i = 1 ( i 1 + i+ 1 )(i ). Let Δ i denotes the length of the cell C i.in the sequel we will consider only uniform partitions with Δ i =Δ, i. We would like to approimate the solution V (, t) by discrete values. In order to do so, we introduce the cell average of V on the cell C i (denoted with an overbar), i.e. V i (t) ( hi (t), ū i (t) ) = 1 Δ C i V (, t)d. A simple integration of (3.3) over the cell C i leads the following eact relation: d V dt + 1 [ Δ F (V ( i+ 1 ],t)) F (V ( i 1,t)) c 1 s = 1 Δ C i S(V )d S i.

10 1 D. Dutykh et al. 9 1 Since the discrete solution is discontinuous at cell interfaces i+ 1 flu at the cell faces by the so-called numerical flu function (i ), we replace the F (V ( i± 1,t)) F i± 1 ( V L R, V ), i± 1 i± where V L,R i± 1 denotes the reconstructions of the conservative variables V from left and right sides of each cell interface (the reconstruction procedure employed in the present study will be described below). Consequently, the semi-discrete scheme takes the form d V i dt + 1 [ F Δ i+ 1 F i 1 ] = S i. (3.) In order to discretize the advective flu F (V ), we use the FVCF scheme [3, 37]: F(V, W ) = F (V )+F (W ) (V, W ) F (W ) F (V ) The first part of the numerical flu is centred, the second part is the upwinding introduced through the Jacobian sign-matri (V, W ) defined as (V, W ) = sign [ ( 1 (V + W ))], sign( ) = diag(s +,s ), 17 1 where s ± sign(λ ± ). After some simple algebraic computations, one can find = 1 [ ] s + + s (h/c s )(s + s ) (g/c s )(s + s ) s + + s, the sign-matri being evaluated at the average state of left and right values High-order reconstruction In order to obtain a higher order scheme in space, we need to replace the piecewise constant data by a piecewise polynomial representation. This goal is achieved by the various so-called reconstruction procedures such as MUSCL TVD [3,, 7], UNO [], ENO [39], WENO [7] and many others. In our previous study on the Boussinesq-type equations [3], the UNO scheme showed good performance with small dissipation in realistic propagation and run-up simulations. Consequently, we retain this scheme for the discretization of the advective flu in the Serre equations. Remark In TVD schemes, the numerical operator is required (by definition) not to increase the total variation of the numerical solution at each time step. It follows that the value of an isolated maimum may only decrease in time which is not a good property for the simulation of coherent structures such as solitary waves. The non-oscillatory UNO scheme, employed in our study, is only required to diminish the number of local etrema in the numerical solution. Unlike TVD schemes, UNO schemes are not constrained to damp the values of each local etremum at every time step.

11 Numerical schemes for the Serre equations The main idea of the UNO scheme is to construct a non-oscillatory piecewise-parabolic interpolant Q() to a piecewise smooth function V () (see [] for more details). On each segment containing the face i+ 1 [ i, i+1 ], the function Q() =q i+ 1 () is locally a quadratic polynomial and wherever v() is smooth we have Q() V () = + O(Δ 3 d Q d V ), ( ± ) d d = + O(Δ ). Also, Q() should be non-oscillatory in the sense that the number of its local etrema does not eceed that of V (). Since q i+ 1 ( i )= V i and q i+ 1 ( i+1 )= V i+1, it can be written in the form q i+ 1 where d i+ 1 () = V i + d i+ 1 {V } i Δ + 1 D i+ 1 {V } ( i)( i+1 ) Δ, {V } V i+1 V i and D i+ 1 V is closely related to the second derivative of the {V } =Δ q () is chosen to be the least i+ 1 interpolant since D i+ 1 (). The polynomial q i+ 1 oscillatory between two candidates interpolating V () at( i 1, i, i+1 ) and ( i, i+1, i+ ). This requirement leads to the following choice of D i+ 1 with {V } minmod ( D i {V }, D i+1 {V } ) D i {V } = V i+1 V i + V i 1, D i+1 {V } = V i+ V i+1 + V i, and where minmod(, y) is the usual minmod function defined as minmod(, y) 1 [ sign() +sign(y)] min(, y ). 7 9 To achieve the second-order O(Δ ) accuracy, it is sufficient to consider piecewise linear reconstructions in each cell. Let L() denote this approimately reconstructed function, which can be written in this form L() = V i + S i i Δ, [ i 1, i+ 1 ] In order to L() be a non-oscillatory approimation, we use the parabolic interpolation Q() constructed below to estimate the slopes S i within each cell ( d Q S i = Δ minmod d ( i ), d Q ) d ( i +). In other words, the solution is reconstructed on the cells, while the solution gradient is estimated on the dual mesh as it is often performed in more modern schemes [5, ]. A brief summary of the UNO reconstruction can be also found in [3, 33] Treatment of dispersive terms In this section we eplain how we treat the dispersive terms of Serre equations (3.1)a (3.). We begin the eposition by discussing the space discretization and then propose a way to remove the intrinsic stiffness of dispersion by partial implicitation.

12 1 D. Dutykh et al For the sake of simplicity, we split the dispersive terms into three parts: (V ) βh 1 [ h 3 ] u t, 1(V ) βh 1 [ h 3 uu ], (V ) βh 1 [ h 3 u We propose the following approimations in space (which are all of the second-order O(Δ ) to be consistent with UNO advective flu discretization presented above) i ( V 1 h 3 i+1 (ū t ) i+1 ) = β h h 3 i 1 (ū t ) i 1 i Δ = β h 1 i Δ [ h 3 (ū t ) i+ (ū t ) i i+1 Δ ] h 3 (ū t ) i (ū t ) i i 1 Δ 1 β h [ i 3 = h Δ i+1 (ū t ) i+ ( h 3 i+1 + h i 1)(ū 3 t ) i + h ] 3 i 1 (ū t ) i. The last relation can be rewritten in a shorthand form if we introduce the matri ( V ) such that the ith component of the product ( V ) V t gives eactly the epression i ( V ). In a similar way we discretize the other dispersive terms without giving here the intermediate steps, 1 1i ( V β h [ i 3 ) = h Δ 3 i+1 ūi+1 (ū i+ ū i+1 + ū i ) h ] 3 i 1 ūi 1 (ū i ū i 1 + ū i ), 1 i ( V β h [ i 3 ) = h Δ 3 i+1 (ū i+ ū i ) h ] 3 i 1 (ū i ū i ). In a more general non-periodic case, asymmetric finite differences should be used near the boundaries. If we denote by the identity matri, we can rewrite the semi-discrete scheme (3.) by epanding the right-hand side S i d h dt ( ) d ū dt + 1 Δ + 1 Δ [ F (1) + ( V ) F (1) [ F () + ( V ) F () ( V ) ]. ( V ] ) =, (3.5) ] = ( V ) ū, (3.) where F (1,) ± ( V ) are the two components of the advective numerical flu vector F at the right (+) and left ( ) faces correspondingly and ( V ) 1 ( V ) ( V ). Finally, in order to obtain the semi-discrete scheme, one has to solve a linear system to find eplicitly the time derivative dū/dt. A mathematical study of the resulting matri is not straightforward to perform. However, in our numerical tests we have never eperienced any difficulties to invert it Temporal scheme We rewrite the inverted semi-discrete scheme (3.5) (3.) as a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs): t w = L(w, t), w() = w. In order to solve numerically the last system of equations, we apply the Bogacki Shampine method [9]. It is a third-order Runge Kutta scheme with four stages. It has an embedded

13 Numerical schemes for the Serre equations second-order method which is used to estimate the local error and thus to adapt the time step size. Moreover, the Bogacki Shampine method enjoys the First Same As Last (FSAL) property so that it needs three function evaluations per step. This method is also implemented in the ode3 function in Matlab []. A step of the Bogacki Shampine method is given by k 1 = L(w (n),t n ), k = L(w (n) + 1 Δt nk 1,t n + 1 Δt), k 3 = L(w (n) )+ 3 Δt nk,t n + 3 Δt), w (n+1) = w (n) + Δt n ( 9 k k + 9 k 3), k = L(w (n+1),t n +Δt n ), w (n+1) = w (n) + Δt n ( k k k k ) Here w (n) w(t n ), Δt is the time step and w (n+1) is the second-order approimation to the solution w(t n+1 ), so the difference between w (n+1) and w (n+1) gives an estimation of the local error. The FSAL property consists in the fact that k is equal to k 1 in the net time step, thus saving one function evaluation. If the new time step Δt n+1 is given by Δt n+1 = ρ n Δt n, then according to the H11b digital filter approach [1, ], the proportionality factor ρ n is given by ρ n = ( ) β1 ( δ δ ε n ε n 1 ) β ρ α n 1, (3.7) 91 9 where ε n is a local error estimation at time step t n, δ is the desired tolerance and the constants β 1, β and α are defined as α = 1, β 1 = β = 1 p Parameter p is the order of the scheme (p = 3 in our case). Remark 5 The adaptive strategy (3.7) can be further improved if we smooth the factor ρ n before computing the net time step Δt n+1 Δt n+1 = ˆρ n Δt n, ˆρ n = ω(ρ n ) The function ω(ρ) is called the time step limiter and should be smooth, monotonically increasing and should satisfy the following conditions ω() < 1, ω(+ ) > 1, ω(1) = 1, ω (1) = One possible choice is suggested in []: ( ) ρ 1 ω(ρ) = 1 + κ arctan. κ In our computations the parameter κ is set to 1.

14 1 D. Dutykh et al Pseudo-spectral Fourier-type method for the Serre equations In this section we describe a pseudo-spectral solver to integrate numerically the Serre equations in periodic domains. In spectral methods, it is more convenient to take as variables the free surface elevation η(, t) andtheconservedquantityq(, t) q t η t + [(d + η) ū =, (.1) + [ qu 1 ū + gη 1 (d + η) ū ] =, (.) q ū (d + η) ū + (d + η)η ū =. (.3) The first two equations (.1) and (.) are of evolution type, while the third one (.3) relates the conserved variable q to the primitive variables: the free surface elevation η and the velocity ū. In order to solve relation (.3) with respect to the velocity ū, weetractthe linear part as ū 1 3 d ū q = 1 3 (dη + η ) ū + (d + η) η ū. }{{} N(η,ū) Then we apply to the last relation the following fied point-type iteration in the Fourier space ˆq ˆū j+1 = F {N(η, ū j)} 3 (kd) 1+ 1 j =, 1,,..., (.) 3 (kd) where ˆψ F{ψ} denotes the Fourier transform of the quantity ψ. The last iteration is repeated until the desired convergence. For eample, for moderate amplitude solitary waves (.), the accuracy 1 1 is attained in approimatively iterations if the velocity ū is initialized from the previous time step. We note that the usual 3/ rule is applied to the nonlinear terms for anti-aliasing [1, 35, 5] Remark One can improve the fied point iteration (.) by employing the so-called relaation approach [1]. The relaed scheme takes the following form: ( ) ˆq ˆū j+1 = F {N(η, ū j)} 3 (kd) 1+ 1 θ + (1 θ)ˆū j j =, 1,,..., 3 (kd) 317 where θ [, 1] is a free parameter. We obtained the best convergence rate for θ = In order to improve the numerical stability of the time-stepping method, we will integrate eactly the linear terms in evolution equations η t + d ū = [ η ū ], q t + gη = [ 1 ū + 1 (d + η) ū qu ].

15 Numerical schemes for the Serre equations Taking the Fourier transform and using relation (.3) between ū and q, we obtain the following system of ODEs: ˆη t + ikd 1+ 1 ˆq = ik F{ηū} ikd F {N(η, ū j)} 3 (kd) 1+ 1, 3 (kd) ˆq t + ikg ˆη = ik F { 1 ū + 1 (d + η) ū qu } The net step consists in introducing the vector of dimensionless variables in the Fourier space ˆV (ik ˆη, iω ˆq/g), where ω = gk d/[ (kd) ] is the dispersion relation of the linearized Serre equations. With unscaled variables in vectorial form, the last system becomes [ ] ˆV t + L ˆV = N( ˆV iω ), L. iω On the right-hand side, we put all the nonlinear terms ( ) k N( ˆV F{ηū} + dk F {N(η, ū j )} /( ) = (kd) ) (kω/g) F { 1 ū + 1 (d + η) ū qu }. In order to integrate the linear terms, we make a last change of variables [35, 51]: { } = e (t t )L N e (t t )L Ŵ, Ŵ (t) e (t t )L ˆV (t), Ŵ (t ) = ˆV (t ). Ŵ t Finally, the last system of ODEs is discretized in time by Verner s embedded adaptive 9() Runge Kutta scheme []. The time step is chosen adaptively using the so-called H11b digital filter [1, ] to meet some prescribed error tolerance (generally of the same order of the fied point iteration (.) precision). Since the numerical scheme is implicit in the velocity variable ū, the resulting time step Δt is generally of the order of the spatial discretization O(Δ) Numerical results In this section we present some numerical results using the finite volume scheme described hereinabove. First we validate the discretization and check the convergence of the scheme using an analytical solution. Then we demonstrate the ability of the scheme to simulate the practically important solitary wave interaction problem. Throughout this section we consider the initial value problem with periodic boundary conditions unless a special remark is made Convergence test and invariants preservation Consider the Serre equations (3.1), (3.) posed in the periodic domain [, ]. We solve numerically the initial-periodic boundary value problem with an eact solitary wave solution (.) posed as an initial condition. Then this specific initial disturbance will be translated in space with known celerity under the system dynamics. This particular class of solutions plays an important role in water wave theory [, 9] and it will allow us to

16 1 D. Dutykh et al. Table 1. Values of various parameters used in convergence tests Undisturbed water depth: d 1 Gravity acceleration: g 1 Solitary wave amplitude: a.5 Final simulation time: T Free parameter: β 1/ FV UNO N N 1 L error Figure. Convergence of the numerical solution in the L norm computed using the finite volume method. N assess the accuracy of the proposed scheme. The values of the various physical parameters used in the simulation are given in Table 1. The error is measured using the discrete L norm for various successively refined discretizations. The result is shown on Figure. As anticipated, the finite volume scheme (black solid line with circles) shows a fairly good second-order convergence (with estimated slope 1.99). During all numerical tests, the mass conservation was satisfied with accuracy of the order of 1 1. This impressive result is due to ecellent local conservative properties of the finite volume method. We also investigate the numerical behaviour of the scheme with respect to the less obvious invariants H and Q defined in (.1). These invariants can be computed eactly for solitary waves. However, we do not provide them to avoid cumbersome epressions. For the solitary wave with parameters given in Table 1,

17 Numerical schemes for the Serre equations Error N Spectral Error N Spectral H (T ) H Q(T ) Q N (a) Hamiltonian H N (b) Momentum Q Figure 5. Hamiltonian and generalized momentum conservation convergence computed using the finite volume and spectral methods under the mesh refinement. The conserved quantities are measured at the final simulation time. 35 the generalized energy and momentum are given by the following epressions: H = Q = log , log These values are used to measure the error on these quantities at the end of the simulation. Convergence of this error under the mesh refinement is shown on Figure 5. One can observe a slight super-convergence phenomenon of the finite volume scheme. This effect is due to the special nature of the solution we use to measure the convergence. This solution is only translated under the system dynamics. For more general initial conditions we epect a fair theoretical second-order convergence for the finite volume scheme. As anticipated, the pseudo-spectral scheme shows the eponential error decay Solitary wave interaction Solitary wave interactions are an important phenomenon in nonlinear dispersive waves which have been studied by numerical and analytical methods and results have been compared with eperimental evidence. They also often serve as one of the most robust nonlinear benchmark test cases for numerical methods. We mention only a few works among the eisting literature. For eample, in [3,, 5] solitary wave interactions were studied eperimentally. The head-on collision of solitary waves was studied in the framework of the full Euler equations in [1, 3]. Studies of solitary waves in various approimate models can be found in [,, 3, 33, ]. To our knowledge, solitary wave collisions for the Serre equations were studied numerically for the first time by Seabra- Santos [57] in the PhD thesis. Finally, there are also a few studies devoted to simulations with the full Euler equations [3, 35, ].

18 1 D. Dutykh et al...3 η(, t) t 1 Figure. Head-on collision of two equal solitary waves simulated with the finite volume scheme Head-on collision Consider the Serre equations posed in the domain [, ] with periodic boundary conditions. In the present section, we study the head-on collision (weak interaction) of two solitary waves of equal amplitude moving in opposite directions. Initially two solitary waves of amplitude a =.15 are located at = ± (other parameters can be found in Table 1). The computational domain is divided into N = 1, intervals (finite volumes in 1D) of the uniform length Δ =.. The time step is chosen to be Δt 1 3.The process is simulated up to time T = 3. The numerical results are presented in Figure. As epected, the solitary waves collide quasi-elastically and continue to propagate in opposite directions after the interaction. An important diagnostic value is the maimum amplitude during the interaction process, sometimes referred to as the run-up. Usually, it is larger than the sum of the amplitudes of the two initial solitary waves. In this case, we obtain a run-up of.313 > a =.3. In order to validate the finite volume simulation, we performed the same computation with the pseudo-spectral method presented briefly in Section. We used a fine grid of 1, nodes and adaptive time stepping. The overall interaction process is visually identical to the finite volume result shown in Figure. The run-up value according to the spectral method is showing again the accuracy of our simulation. The small inelasticity is evident from the small dispersive wave train emerging after the interaction (for eample in a slightly different setting described below, see Figure 1, as first found numerically and eperimentally by Seabra-Santos [57]).

19 Numerical schemes for the Serre equations 19.. η(, t)... 1 t Figure 7. Overtaking (or following) collision of two solitary waves simulated with the finite volume scheme Eperimental data 1 Eperimental data η(, t) 1 η(, t) (a) t =1.5 s (b) t =1. s Figure. Head-on collision of two solitary waves of different amplitudes. Comparison with eperimental data [3] Overtaking collision The second type of solitary wave interaction is the overtaking collision (or strong interaction) of two solitary waves of different amplitudes moving in the same direction. Sometimes this situation is also referred to as the following collision or strong interaction. For this case we consider a physical domain [ 75, 75] divided into N =1, equal control volumes. The initial data consist of two separated solitary waves of different

20 D. Dutykh et al Eperimental data 1 Eperimental data η(, t) 1 η(, t) (a) t =1.7 s (b) t =1. s Figure 9. Head-on collision of two solitary waves of different amplitudes. Comparison with eperimental data [3] Eperimental data.5 Eperimental data 1. 1 η(, t) 1 η(, t) (a) t =1.9 s (b) t =19. s Figure 1. Head-on collision of two solitary waves of different amplitudes. Comparison with eperimental data [3]. Note the difference in vertical scales on the left and right images amplitudes moving in the same direction. The solitary wave with larger amplitude moves faster and will overtake the smaller wave. This situation was simulated with the finite volume scheme and the numerical results are presented in Figure 7. The parameters used in this simulation are given in Table. The strong interaction is also inelastic with a small dispersive tail emerging after the overtaking (see Figure 15 for a zoom) Eperimental validation In this section we present a comparison between the classical Serre model solved with our finite volume scheme and one head-on collision eperiment from [3]. This specific eperiment was already considered in the contet of the Boussinesq-type systems [3].

21 Numerical schemes for the Serre equations 1 Table. Values of various parameters used to simulate the overtaking collision Undisturbed water depth: d 1 Gravity acceleration: g 1 Large solitary wave amplitude: a 1. Initial position: 1 Small solitary wave amplitude: a.1 Initial position: 5 Final simulation time: T 9 Free parameter: β 1/3.5 Eperimental data.5 Eperimental data.. η(, t).15.1 η(, t) (a) t =19.5 s (b) t =19.1 s Figure 11. Head-on collision of two solitary waves of different amplitudes. Comparison with eperimental data [3] Eperimental data 1 Eperimental data η(, t) 1 η(, t) (a) t =19.15 s (b) t =19.19 s Figure 1. Head-on collision of two solitary waves of different amplitudes. Comparison with eperimental data [3].

22 D. Dutykh et al Eperimental data 1 Eperimental data η(, t) 1 η(, t) (a) t =19.33 s (b) t =19.5 s Figure 13. Head-on collision of two solitary waves of different amplitudes. Comparison with eperimental data [3] Eperimental data 1 Eperimental data η(, t) 1 η(, t) (a) t =19.5 s (b) t =. s Figure 1. Head-on collision of two solitary waves of different amplitudes. Comparison with eperimental data [3] We simulate a portion of the wave tank [.9,.7] (divided into N =1, equal control volumes) where the interaction process takes place. The initial data consist of two solitary waves (of different amplitudes in this case) moving in opposite directions. The eact parameters are given in Table 3. snapshots are presented in Figures 1. The general agreement is very good, validating the Serre equations in the water wave theory along with our numerical developments. Figure 1 shows visible dispersive oscillations after the interaction process, numerical evidence of the inelastic character of solitary waves interactions in the framework of the Serre equations.

23 Numerical schemes for the Serre equations 3 Table 3. Values of various parameters used to simulate the head-on collision Undisturbed water depth: d (cm) 5 Gravity acceleration: g (ms ) 9.1 Right-going SW amplitude: a 1 (cm) 1.77 Initial position of the SW-1: 1 (m).7 Left-going SW amplitude: a 1 (cm) Initial position of the SW-: (m) 1.3 Final simulation time: T (s) η(, t) Figure 15. Dispersive tail after overtaking collision of two solitary waves (strong interaction) at T = Conclusions The current study is devoted to the Serre equations stemming from water wave modelling [7, 5, 59]. First, we presented a derivation of this model using a relaed variational principle []. We then described an implicit eplicit finite volume scheme to discretize the equations. The overall theoretical accuracy of the discretization scheme is of second order. This conclusion is confirmed by comparisons with an eact solitary wave solution. The energy conservation properties of our scheme are also discussed and quantified. In order to validate further our numerical scheme, we present a Fourier-type pseudo-spectral method. Both numerical methods are compared on solitary wave interaction problems.

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