Apr 20 – 24, 2026
Institut Henri Poincaré
Europe/Paris timezone

Vorticity generation in water waves

Apr 21, 2026, 2:30 PM
30m
Amphithéâtre Hermite (Institut Henri Poincaré)

Amphithéâtre Hermite

Institut Henri Poincaré

11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie 75005 Paris

Speaker

Alan Riquier (École Normale Supérieure - PSL)

Description

We propose to discuss the relevance of the irrotationality assumption commonly made to obtain reduced water waves models (Shallow Water/Saint-Venant, Korteweg-de Vries, Green-Naghdi, etc.). To do so, we investigate the asymptotic behaviour of two boundary layers associated with oceanic flows: one appearing in the vicinity of the free surface and the other lying at the bottom boundary. This is achieved numerically approximating the solution to the Navier-Stokes equations using the finite-element method on a moving mesh.

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