Water Waves: a boundary integral approach

Dr Mark Preston, Department of Mathematics, University of York

We use a novel boundary integral formulation to solve a two-dimensional / half-plane water wave problem. We can then define a numerical scheme that is super-algebraically convergent and present results that demonstrate this. The talk will include the equivalence of the second-order PDE and the BIE, a few nice results from potential theory, numerical integration and differentiation techniques over the real line and how accurate a numerical approximation to a numerical approximation can be.