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Rossen I. Ivanov has a total of 62 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:


Latest Publications

  • MNLS and Generalized Fourier Transforms for Constant Boundary Conditions

    by V. Gerdjikov, R. Ivanov

    The Lax pair for the MNLS describing spin 1 Bose–Einstein condensate proposed by Wadati et al. is associated to the symmetric C.I space . We construct the fundamental analytic solutions of the Lax operator with constant boundary conditions (CBC) and determine two minimal sets of scattering data of . We derive Wronskian relations, which allow us to introduce “squared solutions” of , which map the potential and its variation onto and , respectively. Using the Green functions , we prove the completeness relations for the “squared solutions” and expand and over the squared solutions, that is, we derive generalized Fourier transforms. The recursion operator , for which the squared solutions are eigenfunctions allows us to describe the hierarchy of MNLS with CBC.

  • Three-layer water flows: Dirichlet–Neumann operators and approximations

    by Rossen I. Ivanov, Calin I. Martin

    The object of investigation in this paper is the nonlinear equations of motion for two-dimensional inviscid water flows with piecewise constant density stratification in a three-layer fluid with a flat bottom, a free surface and two interfaces. We establish a Hamiltonian formulation for the nonlinear governing equations in this set-up. The Hamiltonian of the system and the equations of motion of the surface and of the interfaces are expressed with the help of the Dirichlet–Neumann (DN) operators, which are introduced for each of the layers. Then the linear equations for small amplitudes of the elevation of the surface and of the interfaces in the leading order are derived, from which a bi-cubic equation for the dispersion relation is obtained, whose solutions are analysed. The six real solutions for the possible propagation speeds (three positive, related to right-moving waves, and three negative, related to left-moving waves) have magnitudes of different order. Upper and lower bounds for the previously mentioned roots are also given in terms of the coefficients of the equation. Subsequently, approximate formulas for the propagation speeds are derived. The importance of the DN operators is further illustrated in a separate analysis of the three-layer model with flat surface (rigid lid). The full nonlinear evolution equations are expressed again in terms of the DN operators, and the equations in the linear regime and the weakly nonlinear propagation regime (the Boussinesq approximation) are derived by a proper expansion of the DN operators. Limits to the two-layer free surface model are obtained as well. The obtained results are applicable to internal waves in lakes and in the ocean as well as to laboratory experiments with three superimposed fluid layers.

  • Open Access

    Rotational flow underlying coupled surface and internal waves. I: Eulerian perspective

    by David Henry, Rossen I. Ivanov, Zisis N. Sakellaris

    In this paper we examine the flow generated by coupled surface and internal small-amplitude water waves in a two-fluid layer model, where we take the upper layer to be rotational (constant vorticity) and the lower layer to be irrotational. The presence of vorticity greatly complicates the underlying analysis, yet it generates a rich array of otherwise unobservable phenomena such as the presence of critical layers, and stagnation points, in the fluid interior. We employ a phase-plane analysis to elucidate the qualitative behaviour of streamlines for a range of different coupled-wave, and vorticity, regimes. Although the water waves considered are linear in the fluid dynamics sense, the dynamical systems which govern their motion are nonlinear.

  • Point Vortex Dynamics Influenced by the Surface Motion

    by Delia Ionescu-Kruse, Rossen I. Ivanov, Michail D. Todorov

  • Open Access

    Modelling intermediate internal waves with currents and variable bottom

    by Rossen Ivanov, Lyudmila Ivanova

    A model for internal interfacial waves between two layers of fluid in the presence of current and variable bottom is studied in the flat-surface approximation. Fluids are assumed to be incompressible and inviscid. Another assumption is that the upper layer is considerably deeper with a lower density than the lower layer. The fluid dynamics is presented in Hamiltonian form with appropriate Dirichlet-Neumann operators for the two fluid domains, and the depth-dependent current is taken into account. The well known integrable Intermediate Long Wave Equation (ILWE) is derived as an asymptotic internal waves model in the case of flat bottom. For a non-flat bottom the ILWE is with variable coefficients. Two limits of the ILWE lead to the integrable Benjamin-Ono and Korteweg-de Vries equations. Higher-order ILWE is obtained as well.

  • Open Access

    Higher‐order integrable models for oceanic internal wave–current interactions

    by David Henry, Rossen I. Ivanov, Zisis N. Sakellaris

    In this paper, we derive a higher‐order Korteweg–de Vries (HKdV) equation as a model to describe the unidirectional propagation of waves on an internal interface separating two fluid layers of varying densities. Our model incorporates underlying currents by permitting a sheared current in both fluid layers, and also accommodates the effect of the Earth's rotation by including Coriolis forces (restricted to the Equatorial region). The resulting governing equations describing the water wave problem in two fluid layers under a “flat‐surface” assumption are expressed in a general form as a system of two coupled equations through Dirichlet–Neumann (DN) operators. The DN operators also facilitate a convenient Hamiltonian formulation of the problem. We then derive the HKdV equation from this Hamiltonian formulation, in the long‐wave, and small‐amplitude, asymptotic regimes. Finally, it is demonstrated that there is an explicit transformation connecting the HKdV we derive with the following integrable equations of a similar type: KdV5, Kaup–Kuperschmidt equation, Sawada–Kotera equation, and Camassa–Holm and Degasperis–Procesi equations.


  • Open Access

    Higher-order integrable models for oceanic internal wave-current interactions

    by David Henry, Rossen I. Ivanov, Zisis N. Sakellaris

    In this paper we derive a higher-order KdV equation (HKdV) as a model to describe the unidirectional propagation of waves on an internal interface separating two fluid layers of varying densities. Our model incorporates underlying currents by permitting a sheared current in both fluid layers, and also accommodates the effect of the Earth's rotation by including Coriolis forces (restricted to the Equatorial region). The resulting governing equations describing the water wave problem in two fluid layers under a `flat surface' assumption are expressed in a general form as a system of two coupled equations through Dirichlet-Neumann (DN) operators. The DN operators also facilitate a convenient Hamiltonian formulation of the problem. We then derive the HKdV equation from this Hamiltonian formulation, in the long-wave, and small-amplitude, asymptotic regimes. Finally, it is demonstrated that there is an explicit transformation connecting the HKdV we derive with the following integrable equations of similar type: KdV5, Kaup-Kuperschmidt equation, Sawada-Kotera equation, Camassa-Holm and Degasperis-Procesi equations.