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The Number of Traveling Wave Families in a Running Water with Coriolis Force

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In this paper, we study the number of traveling wave families near a shear flow under the influence of Coriolis force, where the traveling speeds lie outside the range of the flow u. Under the \(\beta \)-plane approximation, if the flow u has a critical point at which u attains its minimal (resp. maximal) value, then a unique transitional \(\beta \) value exists in the positive (resp. negative) half-line such that the number of traveling wave families near the shear flow changes suddenly from finite to infinite when \(\beta \) passes through it. On the other hand, if u has no such critical points, then the number is always finite for positive (resp. negative) \(\beta \) values. This is true for general shear flows under mildly technical assumptions, and for a large class of shear flows including a cosine jet \(u(y) = {1+\cos (\pi y)\over 2}\) (i.e. the sinus profile) and analytic monotone flows unconditionally. The sudden change of the number of traveling wave families indicates that long time dynamics around the shear flow is much richer than the non-rotating case, where no such traveling wave families exist.

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Zhiwu Lin is partially supported by the NSF grants DMS-1715201 and DMS-2007457. Zhifei Zhang is partially supported by NSF of China under Grant 11425103.

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    Dongyi Wei & Zhifei Zhang

  3. Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Hao Zhu

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Lin, Z., Wei, D., Zhang, Z. et al. The Number of Traveling Wave Families in a Running Water with Coriolis Force. Arch Rational Mech Anal 246, 475–533 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-022-01819-8

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