Hunter, John K.; Ifrim, Mihaela A quasi-linear Schrödinger equation for large amplitude inertial oscillations in a rotating shallow fluid. (English) Zbl 1282.35349 IMA J. Appl. Math. 78, No. 4, 777-796 (2013). Summary: This paper derives a 2D, quasi-linear Schrödinger equation in Lagrangian coordinates that describes the effects of weak pressure gradients on large amplitude inertial oscillations in a rotating shallow fluid. The coefficients of the equation are singular at values of the gradient of the wave amplitude that correspond to the vanishing of the Jacobian of the transformation from Lagrangian to Eulerian coordinates, but solutions do not appear to form singularities dynamically. Two regimes of high and moderate nonlinearity are identified, depending on whether or not phase differences in the components of the amplitude gradient are required to maintain a non-zero Jacobian. Numerical simulations show that moderately nonlinear solutions of the quasi-linear Schrödinger equation behave in a qualitatively similar way to solutions of a linear Schrödinger equation, whereas highly nonlinear solutions generate rapidly oscillating, small-scale waves. Cited in 1 Document MSC: 35Q55 NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) 35Q35 PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics 35B35 Stability in context of PDEs 35C07 Traveling wave solutions 65M70 Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs Keywords:nonlinear waves; rotating fluids; inertial oscillations; quasi-linear Schrödinger equation PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{J. K. Hunter} and \textit{M. Ifrim}, IMA J. Appl. Math. 78, No. 4, 777--796 (2013; Zbl 1282.35349) Full Text: DOI