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We consider the two-dimensional capillary water waves with nonzero constant vorticity in infinite depth. We first derive the Babenko equation that describes the profile of the solitary wave. When the velocity $c$ is close to a critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-08 James Rowan , Lizhe Wan

We show that a vortex matter, that is a dense assembly of vortices in an incompressible two-dimensional flow, such as a fast rotating superfluid or turbulent flows with sign-like eddies, exhibits (i) a boundary layer of vorticity (vorticity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-05 Alexander Bogatskiy , Paul Wiegmann

We consider the global bifurcation problem for spatially periodic traveling waves for two-dimensional gravity-capillary vortex sheets. The two fluids have arbitrary constant, non-negative densities (not both zero), the gravity parameter can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-30 David M. Ambrose , Walter A. Strauss , J. Douglas Wright

We present an analytical stability theory for the onset of the Faraday instability, applying over a wide frequency range between shallow water gravity and deep water capillary waves. For sufficiently thin fluid layers the surface is…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 H. W. Mueller , H. Wittmer , C. Wagner , J. Albers , K. Knorr

We report on the observation of gravity-capillary wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid in a high-gravity environment. By using a large-diameter centrifuge, the effective gravity acceleration is tuned up to 20 times the Earth gravity.…

The exact elastodynamic scattering theory is constructed to describe the spectral properties of two- and more-cylindrical cavity systems, and compared to an elastodynamic generalization of the semi-classical Gutzwiller unstable periodic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Wirzba , Niels Sondergaard , Predrag Cvitanovic

A model-based description of the scaling and radial location of turbulent fluctuations in turbulent pipe flow is presented and used to illuminate the scaling behaviour of the very large scale motions. The model is derived by treating the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-06 B. J. McKeon , A. S. Sharma

Using complementary numerical approaches at high resolution, we study the late-time behaviour of an inviscid, incompressible two-dimensional flow on the surface of a sphere. Starting from a random initial vorticity field comprised of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-08 David G. Dritschel , Wanming Qi , J. B. Marston

The comprehension of stratified flows is important for geophysical and astrophysical applications. The Weak Wave Turbulence theory aims to provide a statistical description of internal gravity waves propagating in the bulk of such flows.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-21 Vincent Labarre , Pierre Augier , Giorgio Krstulovic , Sergey Nazarenko

Gravity simulators are laboratory systems where small excitations like sound or surface waves behave as fields propagating on a curved spacetime geometry. The analogy between gravity and fluids requires vanishing viscosity, a feature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-26 Patrik Švančara , Pietro Smaniotto , Leonardo Solidoro , James F. MacDonald , Sam Patrick , Ruth Gregory , Carlo F. Barenghi , Silke Weinfurtner

In geophysical environments, wave motions that are shaped by the action of gravity and global rotation bear the name of gravito-inertial waves. We present a geometrical description of gravito-inertial surface waves, which are low-frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yves Colin de Verdière , Jérémie Vidal

The flow of viscous fluids is considered as the aggregation of the motion of fluid particles when the fluid is conceived to be made up by an infinite number of particles. As an alternative of this conventional model, fluid motion could be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-07 Wennan Zou , Jian He

We consider a control system describing the interaction of water waves with a partially immersed rigid body constraint to move only in the vertical direction. The fluid is modeled by the shallow water equations. The control signal is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Pei Su , Marius Tucsnak

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 investigate an effect of the resonant interaction in the case of one-directional propagation of capillary-gravity surface waves arising as the free surface of a rotational water flow. Specifically, we assume a constant vorticity in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-14 Rossen I. Ivanov , Calin I. Martin

We present a numerical study of spatially quasi-periodic gravity-capillary waves of finite depth in both the initial value problem and traveling wave settings. We adopt a quasi-periodic conformal mapping formulation of the Euler equations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-09 Jon Wilkening , Xinyu Zhao

An inertia-gravity wave (IGW) propagating in a vertically sheared, rotating stratified fluid interacts with the pair of inertial levels that surround the critical level. An exact expression for the form of the IGW is derived here in the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 François Lott , Christophe Millet , Jacques Vanneste

In this paper, we establish the existence of Stokes waves with piecewise smooth vorticity in a two-dimensional, infinitely deep fluid domain. These waves represent traveling water waves propagating over sheared currents in a semi-infinite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Changfeng Gui , Jun Wang , Wen Yang , Yong Zhang

Travelling waves of densities of binary fluid mixtures are investigated near a critical point. The free energy is considered in a non-local form taking account of the density gradients. The equations of motions are applied to a universal…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Henri Gouin , Augusto Muracchini , Tommaso Ruggeri

This paper focuses on the analysis of stratified steady periodic water waves that contain stagnation points. The initial step involves transforming the free-boundary problem into a quasilinear pseudodifferential equation through a conformal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Wang Jun , Xu Fei , Zhang Yong