English
Related papers

Related papers: Nonlinear resonances of water waves

200 papers

We describe the theory and present numerical evidence for a new type of nonlinear resonant interaction between gravity waves on the surface of deep water. The resonance constitutes a generalisation of the usual 'exact' resonance as we show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Dan Lucas , Miguel D Bustamante , Marc Perlin

The structure of discrete resonances in water-wave turbulence is studied. It is shown that the number of exact 4-wave resonances is huge (hundreds million) even in comparatively small spectral domain when both scale and angle energy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elena Kartashova

Nonlinear water waves interacting with quasi-one-dimensional, non-uniformly periodic bed profiles are studied numerically in the deep-water regime with the help of approximate equations for envelopes of the forward and backward waves.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 V. P. Ruban

We report experiments on gravity-capillary wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid. The wave amplitudes are measured simultaneously in time and space using an optical method. The full space-time power spectrum shows that the wave energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-01 Eric Herbert , Nicolas Mordant , Eric Falcon

The paper takles a procedure which allow to extend some linear, wave type equations to the study of nonlinear models. More concretely, we present a practical way to generate the largest class of a given form of second order differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Rodica Cimpoiasu , Radu Constantinescu

Physics of nonlinear waves on variable backgrounds and the relevant mathematical analysis continues to be the challenging aspect of the study. In this work, we consider a (3+1)-dimensional nonlinear model describing the dynamics of {water…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-03-09 Sudhir Singh , K. Sakkaravarthi , K. Murugesan

In weakly nonlinear dispersive wave systems, long-time dynamics are typically governed by time resonances, where wave phases evolve coherently due to exact frequency matching. Recent advances in spatio-temporal spectrum measurements,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-09 Michal Shavit , Fabio Pusateri , Zhou Zhang , Yulin Pan , Davide Maestrini , Miguel Onorato , Jalal Shatah

The dynamics of gravitational waves is investigated in full 3+1 dimensional numerical relativity, emphasizing the difficulties that one might encounter in numerical evolutions, particularly those arising from non-linearities and gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Peter Anninos , Joan Masso , Edward Seidel , Wai-Mo Suen , Malcolm Tobias

We present laboratory experiments on turbulence in a linearly stratified fluid driven by an ensemble of internal gravity waves which approaches statistical homogeneity and axi-symmetry. In a way similar to several recent experimental works,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-31 Nicolas Lanchon , Daniel Odens Mora , Eduardo Monsalve , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

The question of the relative importance of coherent structures and waves has for a long time attracted a great deal of interest in astrophysical plasma turbulence research, with a more recent focus on kinetic scale dynamics. Here we utilize…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 D. Groselj , C. H. K. Chen , A. Mallet , R. Samtaney , K. Schneider , F. Jenko

By numerical simulation of exact equations of motion (in terms of conformal variables) for planar non-stationary potential flows of an ideal fluid with a free surface over a strongly non-uniform bottom profile, the effect of nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Victor P. Ruban

Nonlinear acoustic evolution is often discussed in the context of wave-steepening that leads to shock formation, and is of special interest in applications where the shock continues to strengthen due to a narrowing of its channel or the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-27 Tamar Faran , Christopher D. Matzner , Eliot Quataert

We report the theoretical derivation and the experimental as well as numerical observation of nonlinear phase domain walls in weakly nonlinear deep water surface gravity waves. The domain walls presented are connecting homogeneous zones of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-06-06 F. Tsitoura , U. Gietz , A. Chabchoub , N. Hoffmann

We study the nonlinear wave dynamics of one-dimensional chains of polycatenated rings. These interlocked structures support amplitude-dependent nonlinear wave propagation driven by tensile activation and internal structural flexibility,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Xiaoxiao Xiong , Reo Yanagi , Tingtao Zhou , Chiara Daraio

In this paper we will develop linear and nonlinear filtering methods for a large class of nonlinear wave equations that arise in applications such as quantum dynamics and laser generation and propagation in a unified framework. We consider…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Sivaguru S. Sritharan , Saba Mudaliar

The last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of studies devoted to wave turbulence. Many deal with water waves, as modeling of ocean waves has historically motivated the development of weak turbulence theory, which adresses…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-09 Eric Falcon , Nicolas Mordant

The dynamics of nonlinear waves with controllable dispersion, nonlinearities, and background continues to be an exciting line of research in recent years. In this work, we focus to investigate an integrable (3+1)-dimensional nonlinear model…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-02-02 Sudhir Singh , K. Sakkaravarthi , K. Murugesan

The instability and nonlinear evolution of directional ocean waves is investigated numerically by means of simulations of the governing kinetic equation for narrow-band surface waves. Our simulation results reveal the onset of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Bengt Eliasson , Padma K. Shukla

A new description of the dynamics of warped accretion discs is presented. A theory of fully nonlinear, slowly varying bending waves is developed, involving a proper treatment of viscous fluid dynamics but neglecting self-gravitation. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. I. Ogilvie

The search for solutions to the theory of weakly non-linear internal gravity wave turbulence is an active research topic. It is notably stimulated by the fact that this regime could drive fine-scale ocean dynamics for which the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-01 Nicolas Lanchon , Samuel Boury , Pierre-Philippe Cortet