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We construct small-amplitude solitary traveling gravity-capillary water waves with a finite number of point vortices along a vertical line, on finite depth. This is done using a local bifurcation argument. The properties of the resulting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Kristoffer Varholm

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

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

We investigate the existence of solitary gravity waves traversing a two-dimensional body of water that is bounded below by a flat impenetrable ocean bed and above by a free surface of constant pressure. Our main interest is constructing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Adelaide Akers , Samuel Walsh

The two-dimensional free-boundary problem describing steady gravity waves with vorticity on water of finite depth is considered. It is proved that no small-amplitude waves are supported by a horizontal shear flow whose free surface is still…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolay Kuznetsov

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

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

This is a study of two-dimensional steady periodic travelling waves on the surface of an infinitely deep irrotational ocean, when the top streamline is in contact with a membrane which has a nonlinear response to stretching and bending, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-05-06 Pietro Baldi , John F. Toland

In this paper we develop an existence theory for small amplitude, steady, two-dimensional water waves in the presence of wind in the air above. The presence of the wind is modeled by a Kelvin--Helmholtz type discontinuity across the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-15 Samuel Walsh , Oliver Bühler , Jalal Shatah

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

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of two-dimensional water waves characterized by a significant adverse constant vorticity over flows without stagnation points. Surprisingly, we discover qualitative distinctions between this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Evgeniy Lokharu

We present a large-amplitude existence theory for two-dimensional solitary waves propagating through a two layer body of water. The domain of the fluid is bounded below by an impermeable flat ocean floor and above by a free boundary at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Daniel Sinambela

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

Intuitively, crest speeds of water waves are assumed to match their phase velocities. However, this is generally not the case for natural waves within unsteady wave groups. This motivates our study, which presents new insights into the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Francesco Fedele , Michael L. Banner , Xavier Barthelemy

We consider Euler's equations for free surface waves traveling on a body of density stratified water in the scenario when gravity and surface tension act as restoring forces. The flow is continuously stratified, and the water layer is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Joachim Escher , Patrik Knopf , Christina Lienstromberg , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

Topological concepts have been introduced into electronic, photonic, and phononic systems, but have not been studied in surface-water-wave systems. Here we study a one-dimensional periodic resonant surface-water-wave system and demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Zhaoju Yang , Fei Gao , Baile Zhang

We prove the nonexistence of two-dimensional solitary gravity water waves with subcritical wave speeds and an arbitrary distribution of vorticity. This is a longstanding open problem, and even in the irrotational case there are only partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Vladimir Kozlov , Evgeniy Lokharu , Miles H. Wheeler

In this paper, the variational formulation for steady periodic stratified water waves in two-layer flows is given. The critical points of a natural energy functional is proved to be the solutions of the governing equations. And the second…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Yuchao He , Yonghui Xia , Zhe Zhou

In this paper, we prove the existence of two-dimensional, traveling, capillary-gravity, water waves with compactly supported vorticity. Specifically, we consider the cases where the vorticity is a $\delta$-function (a point vortex), or has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Jalal Shatah , Samuel Walsh , Chongchun Zeng

This paper studies the classical water wave problem with vorticity described by the Euler equations with a free surface under the influence of gravity over a flat bottom. Based on fundamental work \cite{ConstantinStrauss}, we first obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Guowei Dai , Yong Zhang