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The Whitham equation is a nonlocal shallow water-wave model which combines the quadratic nonlinearity of the KdV equation with the linear dispersion of the full water wave problem. Whitham conjectured the existence of a highest, cusped,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Tien Truong , Erik Wahlén , Miles H. Wheeler

By a bifurcation argument we prove that the capillary-gravity Whitham equation features asymmetrical periodic travelling wave solution of arbitrarily small amplitude. Such waves exist only in the weak surface tension regime…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Ola Mæhlen , Douglas Svensson Seth

We consider several different bidirectional Whitham equations that have recently appeared in the literature. Each of these models combine the full two-way dispersion relation from the incompressible Euler equations with a canonical shallow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Kyle M. Claassen , Mathew A. Johnson

We study the bifurcation of periodic travelling waves of the capillary-gravity Whitham equation. This is a nonlinear pseudo-differential equation that combines the canonical shallow water nonlinearity with the exact (unidirectional)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Mats Ehrnström , Mathew A. Johnson , Ola I. H. Maehlen , Filippo Remonato

We construct global curves of rotational traveling wave solutions to the $2D$ water wave equations on a compact domain. The real analytic interface is subject to surface tension, while gravitational effects are ignored. In contrast to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Gary Moon , Yilun Wu

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

This paper presents a pioneering investigation into the existence of traveling wave solutions for the two-dimensional Euler equations with constant vorticity in a curved annular domain, where gravity acts radially inward. This configuration…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Liang Li , Quan Wang

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

In this paper, we use the equivariant degree theory to establish a global bifurcation result for the existence of non-stationary branches of solutions to a nonlinear, two-parameter family of hyperbolic wave equations with local delay and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Carlos Garcia-Azpeitia , Ziad Ghanem , Wieslaw Krawcewicz

The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of small-amplitude, unidirectional waves of all wavelengths on shallow water. It has been shown to accurately model the evolution of waves in laboratory experiments. We compute…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 John D. Carter

We adopt a robust numerical continuation scheme to examine the global bifurcation of periodic traveling waves of the capillary-gravity Whitham equation, which combines the dispersion in the linear theory of capillary-gravity waves and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-27 Efstathios G. Charalampidis , Vera Mikyoung Hur

This paper is concerned with two-dimensional, steady, periodic water waves propagating at the free surface of water in a flow of constant vorticity over an impermeable flat bed. The motion of these waves is assumed to be governed both by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Peter de Boeck

In a prior work, the authors proved a global bifurcation theorem for spatially periodic interfacial hydroelastic traveling waves on infinite depth, and computed such traveling waves. The formulation of the traveling wave problem used both…

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

We consider the existence of periodic traveling waves in a bidirectional Whitham equation, combining the full two-way dispersion relation from the incompressible Euler equations with a canonical shallow water nonlinearity. Of particular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Mats Ehrnström , Mathew A. Johnson , Kyle M. Claassen

The so-called Whitham equation arises in the modeling of free surface water waves, and combines a generic nonlinear quadratic term with the exact linear dispersion relation for gravity waves on the free surface of a fluid with finite depth.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-08 Filippo Remonato , Henrik Kalisch

In this paper, we prove the global existence of H\"older continuous solutions for the Cauchy problem of a family of partial differential equations, named as $\lambda$-family equations, where $\lambda$ is the power of nonlinear wave speed.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Geng Chen , Yannan Shen , Shihui Zhu

In this paper, we first construct two-dimensional periodic interface waves with point vortex and capillary effect and then obtain the global structure of the set of solutions. This is done using the local and global bifurcation argument.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Dai Guowei , Zhang Yong

We consider discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations of n sites with periodic boundary conditions. These equations have n branches of standing waves that bifurcate from zero. Traveling waves appear as a symmetry-breaking from the standing…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Carlos García-Azpeitia

This paper deals with periodic solutions of the Hamilton equation with many parameters. Theorems on global bifurcation of solutions with periods $2\pi/j,$ $j\in\mathbb{N},$ from a stationary point are proved. The Hessian matrix of the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-07-14 Wiktor Radzki

In this paper we consider two-dimensional, stratified, steady water waves propagating over an impermeable flat bed and with a free surface. The motion is assumed to be driven by capillarity (that is, surface tension) on the surface and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Samuel Walsh
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