Abstract:
The reduced 3-wave and 4-wave Hamiltonian equations for ocean surface waves were widely used for the simplified structure with symmetric polynomial kernels and for the conservation of energy, etc. However, according to the related assumption for approximation in derivation, the range of applicability was limited to weakly nonlinear waves of small amplitude. Here the following issue was further studied: for nonlinear waves of finite amplitude within a certain range, was it also possible to obtain reduced Hamiltonian equations with symmetric polynomial kernels in a sense of sufficient accuracy? Because of complicated strongly nonlinear coupling, few development in this significant respect had been made as yet. A new approach was proposed based on the Chebyshev polynomials to best approximate the primitive water wave equations in the exact sense of strongly nonlinear coupling and derive new reduced Hamiltonian equations with symmetric polynomial kernels. The new results exhibit an extension from a weakly nonlinear case in which the product of the wave number and the wave steepness is small to a nonlinear case in which this product goes up to about 1.035. Moreover, within this range, the approximation errors are lower than 5%, and in particular, the new results prove exact whenever the said product lies close to 0.9.
