Isobe-Kakinuma model for water waves as a higher order shallow water approximation

We justify rigorously an Isobe-Kakinuma model for water waves as a higher order shallow water approximation in the case of a flat bottom. It is known that the full water wave equations are approximated by the shallow water equations with an error of order O(δ2), where δ is a small nondimensional parameter defined as the ratio of the mean depth to the typical wavelength. The Green-Naghdi equations are known as higher order approximate equations to the water wave equations with an error of order O(δ4). In this paper we show that the Isobe-Kakinuma model is a much higher order approximation to the water wave equations with an error of order O(δ6).