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In this article, we mainly investigate the properties of vertical velocity v for two dimensional steady water waves over a flat bed. Firstly we prove the existence of the inflection point for each streamline, then we find the behavior of v…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Yong Zhang , Fengquan Li , Fei Xu

Internal gravity waves are an essential feature of stratified media, such as oceans and atmospheres. To investigate their dynamics, we perform simulations of the forced-dissipated kinetic equation describing the evolution of the energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-09 Vincent Labarre , Giorgio Krstulovic , Sergey Nazarenko

We consider steady surface waves in an infinitely deep two--dimensional ideal fluid with potential flow, focusing on high-amplitude waves near the steepest wave with a 120 degree corner at the crest. The stability of these solutions with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-25 Bernard Deconinck , Sergey A. Dyachenko , Anastassiya Semenova

We investigate hydrodynamic fluctuations in a 2D granular fluid excited by a vibrating base and in the presence of gravity, focusing on the transverse velocity modes. Since the system is inhomogeneous, we measure fluctuations in horizontal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Giulio Costantini , Andrea Puglisi

We investigate the linearized hydrodynamic equations of interacting self-propelled particles in two dimensional space. It is found that the small perturbations of density and polarization fields satisfy the hyperbolic partial differential…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Waipot Ngamsaad , Suthep Suantai

We provide analytic solutions of the nonlinear differential equation system describing the particle paths below small-amplitude periodic gravity waves travelling on a constant vorticity current. We show that these paths are not closed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Delia Ionescu-Kruse

In oceans, multiple energetic inertia-gravity waves often coexist in a region. In this paper, we study the stability of two coexisting plane inertia-gravity waves (hereafter, primary waves), with the same frequencies ($\omega_1$) and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-05 Saranraj Gururaj , Anirban Guha

In this paper, we study two-dimensional traveling waves in finite-depth water that are acted upon solely by gravity. We prove that, for any supercritical Froude number (non-dimensionalized wave speed), there exists a continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Robin Ming Chen , Kristoffer Varholm , Samuel Walsh , Miles H. Wheeler

Waves with constant vorticity and electrohydrodynamics flows are two topics in fluid dynamics that have attracted much attention from scientists for both the mathematical challenge and their industrial applications. The coupling of electric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-04 Marcelo V. Flamarion , Tao Gao , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr , Alex Doak

Rotating waves are a fascinating feature of a wide array of complex systems, particularly those arising in the study of many chemical and biological processes. With many rigorous mathematical investigations of rotating waves relying on the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Jason J. Bramburger

We study travelling waves on a two--dimensional lattice with linear and nonlinear coupling between nearest particles and a periodic nonlinear substrate potential. Such a discrete system can model molecules adsorbed on a substrate crystal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Michal Feckan , Vassilis M. Rothos

A previously unknown instability creates space-filling lattices of 3D vortices in linearly-stable, rotating, stratified shear flows. The instability starts from an easily-excited critical layer. The layer intensifies by drawing energy from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-27 Philip S. Marcus , Suyang Pei , Chung-Hsiang Jiang , Pedram Hassanzadeh

We study large traveling surface waves within a two-dimensional finite depth, free boundary, homogeneous, incompressible and viscous fluid governed by Darcy's law. The fluid is bound by a gravitational force to a flat rigid bottom and meets…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Huy Q. Nguyen , Noah Stevenson

In this work, we study the nonlinear traveling waves in density stratified fluids with depth varying shear currents. Beginning the formulation of the water-wave problem due to [1], we extend the work of [4] and [18] to examine the interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-30 K. L. Oliveras , C. W. Curtis

The stability and transition in the bottom boundary layer under a solitary wave are analysed in the presence of finite amplitude disturbances. First, the receptivity of the boundary layer is investigated using a linear input-output…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Asim Önder , Philip Li-Fan Liu

We study the long time evolution of internal waves in two dimensional subcritical channels with flat horizontal ends. We show the leading profiles of solutions are the outgoing solutions to the stationary equations. This is done by showing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Zhenhao Li , Jian Wang , Jared Wunsch

In this paper we consider fundamental processes of the disturbance and propagation of internal gravity waves in the ocean modeled as a vertically stratified, horizontally non-uniform, and non-stationary medium. We develop asymptotic methods…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-08-20 Vitaly V. Bulatov , Yuriy V. Vladimirov

We numerically study the scattering coefficients of linear water waves on stationary flows above a localized obstacle. We compare the scattering on trans- and subcritical flows, and then focus on the latter which have been used in recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 Scott Robertson , Florent Michel , Renaud Parentani

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

The coupled motion is investigated for a mechanical system consisting of water and a body freely floating in it. Water occupies either a half-space or a layer of constant depth into which an infinitely long surface-piercing cylinder is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Nikolay Kuznetsov