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We investigate the hydroelastic wake created by a perturbation moving at constant speed along a thin elastic sheet floating at the surface of deep water. Using a high-resolution cross-correlation imaging technique, we characterize the waves…

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We derive scaling laws for the steady spectrum of wind excited waves, assuming two inviscid fluids (air and water) and no surface tension, an approximation valid at large speeds. In this limit there exists an unique (small) dimensionless…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-16 Yves Pomeau Yves , Martine Le Berre

In geophysical environments, wave motions that are shaped by the action of gravity and global rotation bear the name of gravito-inertial waves. We present a geometrical description of gravito-inertial surface waves, which are low-frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yves Colin de Verdière , Jérémie Vidal

Stratified wakes past an isolated conical seamount are simulated at a Froude number of $Fr = 0.15$ and Rossby numbers of $Ro = 0.15$, 0.75, and $\infty$. The wakes exhibit a K{\' a}rm{\' a}n vortex street, unlike their unstratified,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-03 Jinyuan Liu , Pranav Puthan , Sutanu Sarkar

A stochastic gravitational wave background causes the apparent positions of distant sources to fluctuate, with angular deflections of order the characteristic strain amplitude of the gravitational waves. These fluctuations may be detectable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-28 Laura G. Book , Éanna É. Flanagan

The high-Reynolds number stratified wake of a slender body is studied using a high-resolution hybrid simulation. The wake generator is a 6:1 prolate spheroid with a tripped boundary layer, the diameter-based body Reynolds number is $Re=…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-21 J. L. Ortiz-Tarin , S. Nidhan , S. Sarkar

Within the closed universe, we obtain the amplitude and frequency of gravitational waves in the terms of discrete wave numbers, wave propagation time, and cosmological constant using the deviation equation in the first-order perturbed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-27 Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Amir H. Abbassi , Ali Vahedi , Komeil Babaei

The standing surface waves in a rectangular vertically oscillating vessel filled with water (Faraday waves) in the presence of a floating elastic sheet are studied experimentally and theoretically. The threshold amplitude of the instability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-11 Vahideh Sardari , Leila Bahmani , Maniya Maleki

We describe the statistical properties of light rays propagating though a random sea of gravity waves and compare with the case for scalar metric perturbations from density inhomogeneities. For scalar fluctuations the deflection angle grows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Nick Kaiser , Andrew Jaffe

This paper presents a new generation of fast-running physics-based models to predict the wake of a semi-infinite wind farm, extending infinitely in the lateral direction but with finite size in the streamwise direction. The assumption of a…

We examine the interaction between floating cylindrical objects and surface waves in the gravity regime. Since the impact of resonance phenomena associated with floating bodies, particularly at laboratory scales, remains underexplored, we…

The possible variation of the electromagnetic fine structure constant $\alpha_e$ on cosmological scales arouses great interests in recent years. The strongly lensed gravitational waves and the electromagnetic counterparts could be used to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-05 Xin Li , Li Tang , Hai-Nan Lin , Li-Li Wang

Two particles can exert forces on each other when embedded in a sea of weakly-coupled particles. These "wake forces'' occur whenever the source and target particles have quadratic interactions with the mediating particles; they are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-09 Ken Van Tilburg

Turbulent ship wake conservation at a long distance is one of unsolved problems at present. It is well known that wakes have a rotational structure and slowly expand with distance. Nevertheless, experimental data on their structure and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2010-01-20 E. Golbraikh , A. Eidelman , A. Soloviev

Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are subjected to platform motion induced by wind and wave loads. The oscillatory movement trigger vortex instabilities, modifying the wake structure, influencing the flow reaching downstream wind…

This work is dedicated to studying the influence of yaw angle on the wake characteristics of a 2.5 MW utility-scale wind turbine using large-eddy simulations with the turbine's blades and nacelle parameterized as actuator surfaces. Four…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-30 Zhaobin Li , Xiaolei Yang

Wind turbine's wake, being convectively unstable, may behave as an amplifier of upstream perturbations and make the downstream turbine experience strong inflow fluctuations. In this work, we investigate the effects of the side-to-side…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-02 Zhaobin Li , Guodan Dong , Xiaolei Yang

An oscillating body floating at the water surface produces a wave-field of self-generated waves. When the oscillation induces a difference in fore-aft wave amplitude squared, these self-generated waves can be used as a mechanism to propel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-16 D. O'Donovan , M. D. Bustamante , O. Devauchelle , G. P. Benham

The wake of a body moving across the isopycnals of a strongly stratified fluid is characterized by the presence of an intense jet which, under certain circumstances, may become unstable. To get insight into the phenomenology of this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-18 Chang-Fan Mo , Matthieu J. Mercier , Jacques Magnaudet , Jie Zhang