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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

This article is devoted to the study of local well-posedness for deep water waves with constant vorticity in two space dimensions on the real line. The water waves can be paralinearized and written as a quasilinear dispersive system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Lizhe Wan

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

Steady linear gravity waves of small amplitude travelling on a current of constant vorticity are found. For negative vorticity we show the appearance of internal waves and vortices, wherein the particle trajectories are not any more closed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-12-05 Mats Ehrnstrom , Gabriele Villari

We construct small-amplitude steady periodic gravity water waves arising as the free surface of water flows that contain stagnation points and possess a discontinuous distribution of vorticity in the sense that the flows consist of two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Calin Iulian Martin , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We consider a two-dimensional, pure capillary drop of nearly-circular shape, having constant vorticity. We write the Craig-Sulem equations on the unit circle, then on the flat torus. We show their Hamiltonian structure and we then observe…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Giuseppe La Scala

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

Fully localised solitary waves are travelling-wave solutions of the three-dimensional gravity-capillary water wave problem which decay to zero in every horizontal spatial direction. Their existence for water of finite depth has recently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Boris Buffoni , Mark D. Groves , Erik Wahlén

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

We study the motion of an interface between two irrotational, incompressible fluids, with elastic bending forces present; this is the hydroelastic wave problem. We prove a global bifurcation theorem for the existence of families of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Benjamin F. Akers , David M. Ambrose , Davia W. Sulon

We prove that symmetric, doubly periodic, capillary-gravity water waves in finite depth bifurcating from non-uniform non-stagnant shear flows are necessarily two-dimensional to leading order. This is in stark contrast to the case of uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Douglas Svensson Seth , Kristoffer Varholm , Erik Wahlén , Jörg Weber

In the dynamics generated by the suspension bridge equation, traveling waves are an essential feature. The existing literature focuses primarily on the idealized one-dimensional case, while traveling structures in two spatial dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Lindsey van der Aalst , Jan Bouwe van den Berg , Jean-Philippe Lessard

In this paper, we study two-dimensional steady solitary gravity waves propagating along the surface of a fluid of finite depth. In particular, we can deal with general vorticity distributions and overhanging wave profiles. By conformal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Jifeng Chu , Zihao Wang , Yong Zhang

We study wave-current interactions in two-dimensional water flows of constant vorticity over a flat bed. For large-amplitude periodic traveling waves that propagate at the water surface in the same direction as the underlying current…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Adrian Constantin , Walter Strauss , Eugen Varvaruca

We construct small amplitude gravity-capillary water waves with small nonzero vorticity, in three spatial dimensions, bifurcating from uniform flows. The waves are symmetric, and periodic in both horizontal coordinates. The proof is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Douglas Svensson Seth , Kristoffer Varholm , Erik Wahlén

We study the Muskat problem for one fluid in arbitrary dimension, bounded below by a flat bed and above by a free boundary given as a graph. In addition to a fixed uniform gravitational field, the fluid is acted upon by a generic force…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Huy Q. Nguyen , Ian Tice

We prove the existence and the linear stability of small amplitude time {\it quasi-periodic} standing wave solutions (i.e. periodic and even in the space variable $ x $) of a $ 2 $-dimensional ocean with infinite depth under the action of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-13 Massimiliano Berti , Riccardo Montalto

We present an existence and stability theory for gravity-capillary solitary waves with constant vorticity on the surface of a body of water of finite depth. Exploiting a rotational version of the classical variational principle, we prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-25 M. D. Groves , E. Wahlén

We present the recent result [8] concerning the existence of quasi-periodic in time traveling waves for the 2d pure gravity water waves system in infinite depth. We provide the first existence result of quasi-periodic water waves solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Roberto Feola , Filippo Giuliani

The paper deals with the 2D gravity-capillary water waves equations in their Hamiltonian formulation, addressing the question of the nonlinear interaction of a plane wave with its reflection off a vertical wall. The main result is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Thomas Alazard , Pietro Baldi