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At the superfluid-solid 4He interface there exist crystallization waves having much in common with gravitational-capillary waves at the interface between two normal fluids. The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is an instability of the interface…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 S. N. Burmistrov , L. B. Dubovskii , V. L. Tsymbalenko

In the present work, we consider the evolution of two fluids separated by a sharp interface in the presence of surface tension - like, for example, the evolution of oil bubbles in water. Our main result is a weak-strong uniqueness principle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Julian Fischer , Sebastian Hensel

We derive interface models for 3D Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI), making use of a novel asymptotic expansion in the non-locality of the fluid flow. These interface models are derived for the purpose of studying universal features…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-14 Gavin Pandya , Steve Shkoller

We investigate the evolution of the random interfaces in a two dimensional Potts model at zero temperature under Glauber dynamics for some particular initial conditions. We prove that under space-time diffusive scaling the shape of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Glauco Valle

In the present paper, we prove the a priori estimates of Sobolev norms for a free boundary problem of the incompressible inviscid MHD equations in all physical spatial dimensions $n=2$ and 3 by adopting a geometrical point of view used in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Chengchun Hao , Tao Luo

This manuscript concerns the dynamical interactions between wind and water waves, which are characterized through two-phase free interface problems for the Euler equations. We provide a comprehensive derivation on the linearized problems of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Changfeng Gui , Sicheng Liu

We prove that there are stationary solutions to the 2D incompressible free boundary Euler equations with two fluids, possibly with a small gravity constant, that feature a splash singularity. More precisely, in the solutions we construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Diego Cordoba , Alberto Enciso , Nastasia Grubic

In this paper, we consider an incompressible viscous fluid in an infinitely deep ocean, being bounded above by a free moving boundary. The governing equations are the gravity-driven incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with variable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Tien-Tai Nguyen

In this paper, two-dimensional periodic capillary-gravity waves travelling under the effect of a vertical electric field are considered. The full system is a nonlinear, two-layered and free boundary problem. The interface dynamics arises…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Dai Guowei , Xu Fei , Zhang Yong

In this paper, we prove the existence of smooth initial data for the 2D free boundary incompressible Euler equations (also known for some particular scenarios as the water wave problem), for which the smoothness of the interface breaks down…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Angel Castro , Diego Córdoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo , Javier Gómez-Serrano

This paper studies the two-dimensional inhomogeneous Navier--Stokes equations governing stratified flows in a bounded domain under a gravitational potential \(f\). Our main results are as follows. First, we provide a rigorous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Song Jiang , Quan Wang

We derive here a new stability criterion for two-fluid interfaces. This criterion ensures the existence of "stable" local solutions that do no break down too fast due to Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. It can be seen both as a two-fluid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 David Lannes

We study numerically and theoretically the gravity-driven flow of a viscous liquid film coating the inner side of a horizontal cylindrical tube and surrounding a shear-free dynamically inert gaseous core. The liquid-gas interface is prone…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-22 Shahab Eghbali , Yves-Marie Ducimetiere , Edouard Boujo , Francois Gallaire

Wave front propagation with non-trivial bottom topography is studied within the formalism of hyperbolic long wave models. Evolution of non-smooth initial data is examined, and in particular the splitting of singular points and their short…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 R. Camassa , R. D'Onofrio , G. Falqui , G. Ortenzi , M. Pedroni

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instabilities are prevalent in many physical regimes ranging from astrophysical to laboratory plasmas and have primarily been studied using fluid models, the majority of which have been ideal fluid models. This work is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 John Rodman , Petr Cagas , Ammar Hakim , Bhuvana Srinivasan

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

We consider the full 3D dynamics of a thin falling liquid film on a flat plate inclined at some non-zero angle to the horizontal. In addition to gravitational effects, the flow is driven by an electric field, which is normal to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 R. J. Tomlin , D. T. Papageorgiou , G. A. Pavliotis

For ideal fluid flow with zero surface tension and gravity, it remains unknown whether local singularities on the free surface can develop in well-posed initial value problems with smooth initial data. This is so despite great advances over…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Jian-Guo Liu , Robert L. Pego

We consider a free boundary problem for the incompressible ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations that describes the motion of the plasma in vacuum. The magnetic field is tangent and the total pressure vanishes along the plasma-vacuum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Xumin Gu , Yanjin Wang

A novel mathematical nonlinear theory of surface gravity waves in deep water is presented, in which analytical analysis of the classical nonlinear equations of fluid dynamics is performed under less restrictive assumptions than those…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-24 Ilia Mindlin