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We investigate theoretically the onset of capillary-gravity waves created by a small object moving at the water-air interface. It is well established that, for straight uniform motion, no steady waves appear at velocities below the minimum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-01-13 A. D. Chepelianskii , M. Schindler , F. Chevy , E. Raphaël

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 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 a recent paper, Hur & Wheeler [J. Differential Equations, 338:572-590, 2022] proved the existence of periodic steady water waves over an infinitely deep, two-dimensional and constant vorticity flow under the influence of gravity. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Francisco Gonçalves

This paper studies the nonlinear stability of capillary-gravity waves propagating along the interface dividing two immiscible fluid layers of finite depth. The motion in both regions is governed by the incompressible and irrotational Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Robin Ming Chen , Samuel Walsh

Stability criterion for the surface gravity capillary waves in a flowing two-layered fluid system with viscous dissipation is investigated. It is seen that the dissipative instability of negative energy waves is absent,- contrary to what…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chatterjee , P. S. Joarder

We prove real analyticity of all the streamlines, including the free surface, of a steady stratified flow of water over a flat bed in the absence of stagnation points, with a H\"older continuous Bernoulli function and a H\"older…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-16 Ling-Jun Wang

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

We construct small-amplitude solitary traveling gravity-capillary water waves with a finite number of point vortices along a vertical line, on finite depth. This is done using a local bifurcation argument. The properties of the resulting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-12 Kristoffer Varholm

We study two-dimensional periodic capillary-gravity water waves propagating at the free surface of water in a flow with arbitrary, prescribed vorticity over a flat bed. Using conformal mappings and a new Babenko-type reformulation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Erik Wahlén , Jörg Weber

We show the existence of periodic traveling waves at the free surface of a two dimensional, infinitely deep, and constant vorticity flow, under gravity, whose profiles are overhanging, including one which intersects itself to enclose a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Miles H. Wheeler

The present study describes, first, an efficient algorithm for computing capillary-gravity solitary waves solutions of the irrotational Euler equations with a free surface and, second, provides numerical evidences of the existence of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Didier Clamond , Denys Dutykh , Angel Duran

A phenomenological model of parametric surface waves (Faraday waves) is introduced in the limit of small viscous dissipation that accounts for the coupling between surface motion and slowly varying streaming and large scale flows (mean…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Vega , S. Ruediger , J. Vinals

We construct three-dimensional families of small-amplitude gravity-driven rotational steady water waves on finite depth. The solutions contain counter-currents and multiple crests in each minimal period. Each such wave generically is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Mats Ehrnström , Erik Wahlén

Consider the capillary water waves equations, set in the whole space with infinite depth, and consider small data (i.e. sufficiently close to zero velocity, and constant height of the water). We prove global existence and scattering. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-08 Pierre Germain , Nader Masmoudi , Jalal Shatah

In order to determine the steady-state subcritical gravity-capillary waves that are produced by potential flow past a wave-making body, it is typically necessary to impose a radiation condition that allows for capillary waves upstream, but…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-22 Sean Jamshidi , Philippe H. Trinh

This paper establishes the conditional orbital stability of fully localized solitary waves for the three-dimensional capillary-gravity water wave problem in finite depth under strong surface tension. The waves, constructed via a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Changfeng Gui , Shanfa Lai , Yong Liu , Juncheng Wei , Wen Yang

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

This paper presents the second-order perturbation theory of the Navier-Stokes equations for free surface flows, with the wave amplitude considered as the perturbation parameter. Gravity-capillary surface waves in incompressible viscous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-28 Arash Ghahraman , Gyula Bene

When traditional linearised theory is used to study gravity-capillary waves produced by flow past an obstruction, the geometry of the object is assumed to be small in one or several of its dimensions. In order to preserve the nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 Philippe H. Trinh , S. Jonathan Chapman