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The interaction of an object with an unsteady flow is non-trivial and is still far from being fully understood. When an airfoil or hydrofoil, for example, undergoes time-dependent motion, nonlinear flow phenomena such as dynamic stall can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-20 Guillaume Ricard , Gunnar Jacobi , Daniele Fiscaletti , Abel-John Buchner

We make a consistent derivation, from the governing equations, of the pressure transfer function in the small-amplitude Stokes wave regime and the hydrostatic approximation in the small-amplitude solitary water wave regime, in the presence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Robin Ming Chen , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Samuel Walsh

We explore the fundamental flow structure of inclined gravity currents with direct numerical simulations. A velocity maximum naturally divides the current into inner and outer shear layers, which are weakly coupled by exchange of momentum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Lianzheng Cui , Graham O. Hughes , Maarten van Reeuwijk

We report the observation of capillary wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid layer in a low-gravity environment. In such conditions, the fluid covers all the internal surface of the spherical container which is submitted to random…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-05-06 Claudio Falcon , Eric Falcon , Umberto Bortolozzo , Stéphan Fauve

We investigate analytically the linearized water wave radiation problem for an oscillating submerged point source in an inviscid shear flow with a free surface. A constant depth is taken into account and the shear flow increases linearly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-29 Simen Å. Ellingsen , Peder A. Tyvand

We consider the nonlinear problem of steady gravity-driven waves on the free surface of a two-dimensional flow of an incompressible fluid (say, water). The flow is assumed to be unidirectional of finite depth and the water motion is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolay Kuznetsov , Evgeniy Lokharu

In this paper, we numerically study the wave turbulence of surface gravity waves in the framework of Euler equations of the free surface. The purpose is to understand the variation of the scaling of the spectra with wavenumber $k$ and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Zhou Zhang , Yulin Pan

Dense granular flows exhibit both surface deformation and secondary flows due to the presence of normal stress differences. Yet, a complete mathematical modelling of these two features is still lacking. This paper focuses on a steady…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-01 C. Gadal , C. G. Johnson , J. M. N. T. Gray

One of the main questions in planet formation theory is how to cross the metre-scale barrier. In this two-part series, we assess the merits of vortex-based theories by investigating the effect of backreacting dust on vortices. Specifically,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Nathan Magnan , Henrik Nils Latter

In this study, a new set of fifth-order Stokes wave solutions, incorporating the effects of a linear shear current, is derived by utilizing the perturbation method originally proposed for pure waves that was recently published. The present…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-08 Haiqi Fang , Philip L. -F. Liu , Lian Tang , Pengzhi Lin

Gravito-capillary waves at free-surfaces are ubiquitous in several natural and industrial processes involving quiescent liquid pools bounded by cylindrical walls. These waves emanate from the relaxation of initial interface distortions,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-07 Lohit Kayal , Vatsal Sanjay , Nikhil Yewale , Anil Kumar , Ratul Dasgupta

We report experimental observations of two canonical surface wave patterns --- ship waves and ring waves --- skewed by sub-surface shear, thus confirming effects predicted by recent theory. Observed ring waves on a still surface with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-12 Benjamin K. Smeltzer , Eirik Æsøy , Simen Å. Ellingsen

We consider the two-dimensional (2D) flow in a flat free-slip surface that bounds a three-dimensional (3D) volume in which the flow is turbulent. The equations of motion for the two-dimensional flow in the surface are neither compressible…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bruno Eckhardt , Joerg Schumacher

This paper is concerned with two-dimensional, steady, periodic water waves propagating at the free surface of water either in a flow of finite depth and constant vorticity over an impermeable flat bed or in an irrotational flow of great…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-25 Peter de Boeck

In this paper we construct periodic capillarity-gravity water waves with a piecewise constant vorticity distribution. They describe water waves traveling on superposed linearly sheared currents that have different vorticities. This is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Calin Iulian Martin , Bogdan--Vasile Matioc

We present an experimental study on the effect of a electromagneticaly generated vortex flow on parametrically amplified waves at the surface of a fluid. The underlying vortex flow, generated by a periodic Lorentz force, creates…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Claudio Falcón , Stéphan Fauve

The last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of studies devoted to wave turbulence. Many deal with water waves, as modeling of ocean waves has historically motivated the development of weak turbulence theory, which adresses…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-09 Eric Falcon , Nicolas Mordant

The object of this study is to investigate the effect of viscosity on propagation of free-surface waves in an incompressible viscous fluid layer of arbitrary depth. While we provide a more detailed study of properties of linear surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-06 Arash Ghahraman , Gyula Bene

We develop a neutral vortex fluid theory on closed surfaces with zero genus. The theory describes collective dynamics of many well-separated quantum vortices in a superfluid confined on a closed surface. Comparing to the case on a plane,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-02-09 Yanqi Xiong , Xiaoquan Yu

We investigate experimentally the early stage of the generation of waves by a turbulent wind at the surface of a viscous liquid. The spatio-temporal structure of the surface deformation is analyzed by the optical method Free Surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-09 Anna Paquier , Frederic Moisy , Marc Rabaud