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The structure of spiral waves is investigated in super-excitable reaction-diffusion systems where the local dynamics exhibits multi-looped phase space trajectories. It is shown that such systems support stable spiral waves with broken…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 Andrei Goryachev , Raymond Kapral

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

A new type of steady steep two-dimensional irrotational symmetric periodic gravity waves on inviscid incompressible fluid of infinite depth is revealed. We demonstrate that these waves have sharper crests in comparison with the Stokes waves…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-28 Vasyl' Lukomsky , Ivan Gandzha , Dmytro Lukomsky

We study the scattering of surface water waves with irrotational draining vortices. At small depth, this system is a mathematical analogue of a rotating black hole and can be used to mimic some of its peculiar phenomenon. Using ray-tracing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Theo Torres , Antonin Coutant , Sam Dolan , Silke Weinfurtner

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 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

Two-dimensional periodic surface waves propagating under the combined influence of gravity and surface tension on water of finite depth are considered. Within the framework of small-amplitude waves, we find the exact solutions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Delia Ionescu-Kruse

We provide high-order approximations to periodic travelling wave profiles and to the velocity field and the pressure beneath the waves, in flows with constant vorticity over a flat bed.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Adrian Constantin , Konstantinos Kalimeris , Otmar Scherzer

In this paper we construct periodic capillarity-gravity water waves with a piecewise constant vorticity distribution. They describe water waves traveling on superposed linearly sheared currents that have different vorticities. This is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Calin Iulian Martin , Bogdan--Vasile Matioc

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

This work deals with stability of two-phase stratified air-water flows in horizontal circular pipes. For this purpose, we performed a linear stability analysis, which considers all possible three-dimensional infinitesimal disturbances and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ilya Barmak , Alexander Gelfgat , Neima Brauner

This paper considers the existence and stability properties of two-dimensional solitary waves traversing an infinitely deep body of water. We assume that above the water is vacuum, and that the waves are acted upon by gravity with surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Hung Le

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

Geophysical fluids such as the ocean and atmosphere can be stratified: their density depends on the depth. As a consequence, they can host internal gravity waves that propagate in the bulk of the fluid, far from the surface. These waves can…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Sasan J. Ghaemsaidi , Michel Fruchart , Severine Atis

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

Spiral waves are striking self-organized coherent structures that organize spatio-temporal dynamics in dissipative, spatially extended systems. In this paper, we provide a conceptual approach to various properties of spiral waves. Rather…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-09 Björn Sandstede , Arnd Scheel

In this paper we consider two-dimensional, stratified, steady water waves propagating over an impermeable flat bed and with a free surface. The motion is assumed to be driven by capillarity (that is, surface tension) on the surface and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Samuel Walsh

The constant vorticity {\bf two-layer water wave} in the $\beta$-plane approximation with centripetal forces is investigated in this paper. Different from the works (Chu and Yang\cite[JDE, 2020]{chu} and Chu and Yang \cite[JDE, 2021]{chu2})…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Yuchao He , Yongli Song , Yonghui Xia

A two-dimensional water wave system is examined consisting of two discrete incompressible fluid domains separated by a free common interface. In a geophysical context this is a model of an internal wave, formed at a pycnocline or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-09 Alan Compelli , Rossen Ivanov

We investigate the particle trajectories in a constant vorticity shallow water flow over a flat bed as periodic waves propagate on the water's free surface. Within the framework of small amplitude waves, we find the solutions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Delia Ionescu-Kruse