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In this work, we study a gap phenomenon in locally conformally flat Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature. We construct complete solutions to the Yamabe flow that exhibit instantaneous bounded curvature as they evolve.…

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This paper is concerned with a class of nonlocal dispersive models -- the $\theta$-equation proposed by H. Liu [ On discreteness of the Hopf equation, {\it Acta Math. Appl. Sin.} Engl. Ser. {\bf 24}(3)(2008)423--440]: $$…

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We consider the propagation of linear gravity waves on the free surface of steady, axisymmetric flows with purely azimuthal velocity. We propose a two-dimensional set of governing equations for surface waves valid in the deep-water limit.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-17 Emanuele Zuccoli , Edward James Brambley , Dwight Barkley

We consider the gravity-capillary water waves problem in a domain $\Omega_t \subset \mathbb{T} \times \mathbb{R}$ with substantial geometric features. Namely, we consider a variable bottom, smooth obstacles in the flow and a constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Gary Moon

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

We verify the critical case $p=p_0(n)$ of Strauss' conjecture (1981) concerning the blow-up of solutions to semilinear wave equations with variable coefficients in $\mathbf{R}^n$, where $n\geq 2$. The perturbations of Laplace operator are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Kyouhei Wakasa , Borislav Yordanov

In this paper, we initiate the rigorous mathematical study of the problem of impulsive gravitational spacetime waves. We construct such spacetimes as solutions to the characteristic initial value problem of the Einstein vacuum equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-21 Jonathan Luk , Igor Rodnianski

In this paper, we prove convergence of the high codimension mean curvature flow in the sphere to either a round point or a totally geodesic sphere assuming a pinching condition between the norm squared of the second fundamental form and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Charles Baker , Huy The Nguyen

We study the properties of $\text{CAT}(\kappa)$ surfaces: length metric spaces homeomorphic to a surface having curvature bounded above in the sense of satisfying the $\text{CAT}(\kappa)$ condition locally. The main facts about…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Saajid Chowdhury , Hechen Hu , Matthew Romney , Adam Tsou

Consider the dynamics of a layer of viscous incompressible fluid under the influence of gravity. The upper boundary is a free boundary with the effect of surface tension taken into account, and the lower boundary is a fixed boundary on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Yanjin Wang , Zhouping Xin

In this work, we develop a fast and accurate method for the scattering of flexural-gravity waves by a thin plate of varying thickness overlying a fluid of infinite depth. This problem commonly arises in the study of sea ice and ice shelves,…

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We consider a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss mean curvature flow scaled with a term that depends on a quantity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke

In this work we discuss an approximate model for the propagation of deep irrotational water waves, specifically the model obtained by keeping only quadratic nonlinearities in the water waves system under the Zakharov/Craig-Sulem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Vincent Duchêne , Benjamin Melinand

We prove via explicitly constructed initial data that solutions to the gravity-capillary wave system in $\mathbb{R}^3$ representing a 2d air-water interface immediately fails to be $C^3$ with respect to the initial data if the initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-20 Robin Ming Chen , Jeremy L. Marzuola , Daniel Spirn , J. Douglas Wright

We study the problem of gravity surface waves for the ideal fluid model in (2+1)-dimensional case. We apply a systematic procedure for deriving the Boussinesq equations for a prescribed relationship between the orders of four expansion…

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Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Pak Tung Ho , Jinwoo Shin , Zetian Yan

An algorithm is proposed for generalized mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces, which include inverse mean curvature flow, powers of mean and inverse mean curvature flow, etc. Error estimates are proven for semi- and full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Tim Binz , Balázs Kovács

We study the blowup criterion of smooth solution to the Oldroyd models. Let $(u(t,x), F(t,x)$ be a smooth solution in $[0,T)$, it is shown that the solution $(u(t,x), F(t,x)$ does not appear breakdown until $t=T$ provided $\nabla u(t,x)\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Baoquan Yuan

An explicit necessary condition for the occurrence of resonance scattering of axial gravitational waves, along with the internal trapping of null geodesics, is proposed for static spherically symmetric perfect fluid solutions to Einstein's…

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