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Chapter 3<br />

A higher-order <strong>reduced</strong> <strong>model</strong><br />

Since we want to study wave interaction <strong>with</strong> highly variable topographies and<br />

<strong>submarine</strong> structures, we need to be able to account <strong>for</strong> higher order (vertical)<br />

coupling terms between the two layers. Namely we want to investigate if these<br />

higher order terms do indeed play a role in the dynamics. Hence in this chapter<br />

we improve the <strong>model</strong> from the previous chapter regarding the pressure term by<br />

allowing nonhydrostatic terms to come into play.<br />

3.1 Higher-order upper layer equations<br />

The purpose of this chapter is to improve the order of approximation of system<br />

(2.27) by using higher precision approximations <strong>for</strong> the pressure term <strong>with</strong><br />

respect to the dispersion parameterβ. Instead of orderβ, we seek order O(β 3/2 ).<br />

We start <strong>with</strong> the mean-layer equations (2.10) and (2.17) obtained in Section 2.1.<br />

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