Reflectionless wave propagation on shallow water with variable bathymetry and current. II

TL;DR

This paper identifies three classes of reflectionless wave propagation in shallow water with variable bathymetry and current, including a newly discovered class, and analyzes conditions for their global or limited existence.

Contribution

The paper introduces a new class of reflectionless wave solutions in shallow water with variable conditions, expanding the understanding of wave behavior in such environments.

Findings

Three classes of reflectionless wave solutions identified.

Reflectionless flow can be global or limited in spatial extent.

The third class of solutions was recently discovered and described.

Abstract

We show that in the linear approximation there are three classes of reflectionless wave propagation on a surface of shallow water in the channel with spatially varying depth, width, and current speed. Two of these classes have been described in our previous paper (Churilov & Stepanyants, 2022), and the third one was discovered recently and is described here. The general analysis of the problem shows that within the approach used in both our papers, these three classes, apparently, exhaust all possible cases of exact solutions of the problem considered. We show that the reflectionless flow can be global at certain conditions, i.e. it can exist on the entire x-axis. There are also reflectionless flows which exist only on the limited intervals of the x-axis.