Surface gravity wave forced by a traveling bottom

ID: surface-gravity-wave-forced-by-a-traveling-bottom

Consider fluid at rest with mean depth and a bottom displacement . The linearized free-surface boundary conditions at and moving-bottom kinematic boundary condition at give a periodic particular response and velocity potential
The bottom derivative fixes the signed response coefficient to the title formula. Here , , and the forcing must avoid . This equality is resonance with the natural finite-depth surface gravity wave; nonzero undamped resonant forcing has no bounded periodic solution. The response reverses phase below resonance. General initial data can add free surface gravity waves, which do not decay in this inviscid model. Near resonance the resulting wave steepness and particle excursions, rather than the bottom displacement alone, determine whether the linearization remains valid.

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