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In a recent paper, Hur & Wheeler [J. Differential Equations, 338:572-590, 2022] proved the existence of periodic steady water waves over an infinitely deep, two-dimensional and constant vorticity flow under the influence of gravity. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Francisco Gonçalves

We address Euler's equations for irrotational gravity waves in an infinitely deep fluid rewritten in conformal variables. Stokes waves are traveling waves with the smooth periodic profile. In agreement with the previous numerical results,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Sergey Dyachenko , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We construct small-amplitude steady periodic gravity water waves arising as the free surface of water flows that contain stagnation points and possess a discontinuous distribution of vorticity in the sense that the flows consist of two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Calin Iulian Martin , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

The linear stability of rapid granular flow on a slope under gravity against the longitudinal perturbation is analyzed using hydrodynamic equations. It is demonstrated that the steady flow uniform along the flow direction becomes unstable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Namiko Mitarai , Hiizu Nakanishi

Stability of inviscid shear shallow water flows with free surface is studied in the framework of the Benney equations. This is done by investigating the generalized hyperbolicity of the integrodifferential Benney system of equations. It is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-20 Alexander Chesnokov , Gennady El , Sergey Gavrilyuk , Maxim Pavlov

In this paper, we derive consistent shallow water equations for bi-layer flows of Newtonian fluids flowing down a ramp. We carry out a complete spectral analysis of steady flows in the low frequency regime and show the occurence of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-28 Marc Boutounet , Pascal Noble , Jean-Paul Vila

We consider the gravity-capillary water waves equations of a 2D fluid with constant vorticity. By employing variational methods we prove the bifurcation of periodic traveling water waves -- which are steady in a moving frame -- for {\it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-12 T. Barbieri , M. Berti , A. Maspero , M. Mazzucchelli

Linear stability of inviscid, parallel, and stably stratified shear flow is studied under the assumption of smooth strictly monotonic profiles of shear flow and density, so that the local Richardson number is positive everywhere. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Makoto Hirota , Philip J. Morrison

This paper considers two-dimensional stratified water waves propagating under the force of gravity over an impermeable flat bed and with a free surface. We prove the existence of a global continuum of classical solutions that are periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-11 Samuel Walsh

This paper is concerned with two-dimensional, steady, periodic water waves propagating at the free surface of water in a flow of constant vorticity over an impermeable flat bed. The motion of these waves is assumed to be governed both by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Peter de Boeck

We modify the approach of Burton and Toland [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. (2011)] to show the existence of periodic surface water waves with vorticity in order that it becomes suited to a stability analysis. This is achieved by enlarging the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-25 B. Buffoni , G. R. Burton

We study wave-current interactions in two-dimensional water flows of constant vorticity over a flat bed. For large-amplitude periodic traveling waves that propagate at the water surface in the same direction as the underlying current…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Adrian Constantin , Walter Strauss , Eugen Varvaruca

We consider the spectra of the 2-dim gravity waves of finite depth linearized at a uniform monotonic shear flow $U(x_2)$, $x_2 \in (-h, 0)$, where the wave numbers $k$ of the horizontal variable $x_1$ is treated as a parameter. Our main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Xiao Liu , Chongchun Zeng

We investigate the interaction of waves with surface flows by considering the full set of conserved quantities, subtle but important surface elevation changes induced by wave packets and by directly considering the necessary forces to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Clifford Chafin

The two-dimensional free-boundary problem of steady periodic waves with vorticity is considered for water of finite depth. We investigate how flows with small-amplitude Stokes waves on the free surface bifurcate from a horizontal parallel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-06 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolay Kuznetsov

In this paper we mainly investigate the traveling wave solution of the two dimensional Euler equations with gravity at the free surface over a flat bed. We assume that the free surface is almost periodic in the horizontal direction. Using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Wei Luo , Zhaoyang Yin

This paper considers two-dimensional steady solitary waves with constant vorticity propagating under the influence of gravity over an impermeable flat bed. Unlike in previous works on solitary waves, we allow for both internal stagnation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Susanna V. Haziot , Miles. H. Wheeler

In this short note, we derive a system of two nonlocal equations for the water-wave problem following the work of [AFM06]. Specifically, we consider a fluid with a one-dimensional free surface for an irrotational fluid both with, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-04 KL Oliveras

I shortly describe the main results on elastically driven instabilities and elastic turbulence in viscoelastic inertia-less flows with curved streamlines. Then I describe a theory of elastic turbulence and prediction of elastic waves at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-08 V. Steinberg

We perform full-scale numerical simulation of instability of weakly nonlinear waves on the surface of deep fluid. We show that the instability development leads to chaotization and formation of wave turbulence. We study instability both of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 A. O. Korotkevich , A. I. Dyachenko , V. E. Zakharov