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We experimentally study gravity-capillary wave turbulence on the interface between two immiscible fluids of close density with free upper surface. We locally measure the wave height at the interface between both fluids by means of a highly…
In this paper we study the initial boundary value problem for the system $\Delta v= u_{x_1},\ u_t-\mbox{div}\left(\left((a|\mathbf{q}|+m)I+(b-a)\frac{\mathbf{q}\otimes\mathbf{q}}{|\mathbf{q}|}\right)\nabla u\right)=-\nabla…
We consider the evolution by mean curvature flow of a closed submanifold of the complex projective space. We show that, if the submanifold has small codimension and satisfies a suitable pinching condition on the second fundamental form,…
We consider the two dimensional gravity water wave equation in a regime where the free interface is allowed to be non-$C^1$. In this regime, only a degenerate Taylor inequality $-\frac{\partial P}{\partial \bf n}\ge 0$ holds, with…
In this paper, we consider the short time classical solution to a simplified hydrodynamic flow modeling incompressible, nematic liquid crystal materials in dimension three. We establish a criterion for possible breakdown of such solutions…
An analytical description of the interface motion of a collapsing nanometer-sized spherical cavity in water is presented by a modification of the Rayleigh-Plesset equation in conjunction with explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations.…
Theoretical results on water waves almost always start by assuming irrotationality of the flow in order to simplify the formulation. In this work, we investigate the well-foundedness of this hypothesis via numerical simulations of the…
We study mean field equations with singular sources on a compact Riemann surface with boundary $(\Sigma,g)$, subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions: \[ -\Delta_g v = \rho\left( \frac{V e^{v}}{\int_\Sigma V e^{v}\, d v_g} -…
In this paper we discuss a theoretical model for the interfacial profiles of progressive non-linear waves which result from introducing a triangular obstacle, of finite height, attached to the bottom below the flow of a stratified, ideal,…
We are interested in the generic behaviour of nonlinear sound waves as they approach the surface of a star, here assumed to have the polytropic equation of state $P=K\rho^\Gamma$. Restricting to spherical symmetry, and considering only the…
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…
We present a comprehensive theory for linear gravity-driven ship waves in the presence of a shear current with uniform vorticity, including the effects of finite water depth. The wave resistance in the presence of shear current is…
In this paper, we consider a layer of viscous incompressible isotropic micropolar fluid in a uniform gravitational field of finite depth, lying above a flat rigid bottom and below the atmosphere in a three-dimensional horizontally periodic…
This article is concerned with infinite depth gravity water waves with constant vorticity in two space dimensions. We consider this system expressed in position-velocity potential holomorphic coordinates. We show that, for low-frequency…
Einstein equations are addressed with the energy-momentum tensor that appears if the equations under discussion are required to possess conformal invariance. It is proved that thus derived equations (equations of conformally invariant…
The paper introduces a finite element method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations posed on a closed surface $\Gamma\subset\R^3$. The method needs a shape regular tetrahedra mesh in $\mathbb{R}^3$ to discretize equations on the…
Linear and weakly nonlinear stability analyses of an externally shear-imposed, gravity-driven falling film over a uniformly heated wavy substrate are studied. The longwave asymptotic expansion technique is utilized to formulate a single…
Two-dimensional potential flows of an ideal fluid with a free surface are considered in situations when shape of the bottom depends on time due to external reasons. Exact nonlinear equations describing surface waves in terms of the so…