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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 two-dimensional water-wave problem with a general non-zero vorticity field in a fluid volume with a flat bed and a free surface. The nonlinear equations of motion for the chosen surface and volume variables are expressed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Delia Ionescu-Kruse , Rossen Ivanov

Governing equations for two-dimensional inviscid free-surface flows with constant vorticity over arbitrary non-uniform bottom profile are presented in exact and compact form using conformal variables. An efficient and very accurate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-13 V. P. Ruban

The equations for waves on the surface of an irrotational incompressible fluid are derived in the coordinates of the velocity potential/stream function. The low frequency shallow water approximation for these waves is derived for a varying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 W. G. Unruh

This paper considers steady surface waves `riding' a Beltrami flow (a three-dimensional flow with parallel velocity and vorticity fields). It is demonstrated that the hydrodynamic problem can be formulated as two equations for two scalar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Mark D. Groves , J. Horn

The viscosity of water induces a vorticity near the free surface boundary. The resulting rotational component of the fluid velocity vector greatly complicates the water wave system. Several approaches to close this system have been…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-16 D. Eeltink , A. Armaroli , M. Brunetti , J. Kasparian

This paper studies periodic traveling gravity waves at the free surface of water in a flow of constant vorticity over a flat bed. Using conformal mappings the free-boundary problem is transformed into a quasilinear pseudodifferential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Adrian Constantin , Eugen Varvaruca

Two-dimensional potential flows of an ideal fluid with a free surface are considered in situations when shape of the bottom depends on time due to external reasons. Exact nonlinear equations describing surface waves in terms of the so…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. P. Ruban

A single incompressible, inviscid, irrotational fluid medium bounded by a free surface and varying bottom is considered. The Hamiltonian of the system is expressed in terms of the so-called Dirichlet-Neumann operators. The equations for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-09 Alan Compelli , Rossen I. Ivanov , Michail D. Todorov

In this paper we derive a two-component system of nonlinear equations which model two-dimensional shallow water waves with constant vorticity. Then we prove well-posedness of this equation using a geometrical framework which allows us to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Joachim Escher , David Henry , Boris Kolev , Tony Lyons

Two-dimensional nonlinear gravity waves travelling in shallow water on a vertically sheared current of constant vorticity are considered. Using Euler equations, in the shallow water approximation, hyperbolic equations for the surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-04 Christian Kharif , Malek Abid

In this paper we consider two-dimensional water waves with constant vorticity, under the action of gravity and surface tension, in a fluid domain with finite depth and general bottom topography. We present a formulation which generalizes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-22 S. Pasquali

A nonlocal form of a two-layer fluid system is proposed by a simple symmetry reduction, then by applying multiple scale method to it a general nonlocal two place variable coefficient modified KdV (VCmKdV) equation with shifted space and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2019-03-05 Xi-Zhong Liu

Theoretical results on water waves almost always start by assuming irrotationality of the flow in order to simplify the formulation. In this work, we investigate the well-foundedness of this hypothesis via numerical simulations of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 Alan Riquier , Emmanuel Dormy

Steady two-dimensional surface capillary-gravity waves in irrotational motion are considered on constant depth. By exploiting the holomorphic properties in the physical plane and introducing some transformations of the boundary conditions…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Didier Clamond

We consider the flow of a Newtonian fluid in a three-dimensional domain, rotating about a vertical axis and driven by a vertically invariant horizontal body-force. This system admits vertically invariant solutions that satisfy the 2D…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Basile Gallet

This article is concerned with the incompressible, infinite depth water wave equation in two space dimensions, with gravity and constant vorticity but with no surface tension. We consider this problem expressed in position-velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Mihaela Ifrim , Daniel Tataru

We consider the full irrotational water waves system with surface tension and no gravity in dimension two (the capillary waves system), and prove global regularity and modified scattering for suitably small and localized perturbations of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Alexandru D. Ionescu , Fabio Pusateri

We show that the governing equations for two-dimensional gravity water waves with constant non-zero vorticity have a nearly-Hamiltonian structure, which becomes Hamiltonian for steady waves.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 Adrian Constantin , Rossen I. Ivanov , Emil M. Prodanov

In this paper we examine the flow generated by coupled surface and internal small-amplitude water waves in a two-fluid layer model, where we take the upper layer to be rotational (constant vorticity) and the lower layer to be irrotational.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-21 David Henry , Rossen I. Ivanov , Zisis N. Sakellaris
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