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This paper proves long-standing conjectures regarding the existence of infinitely many high-frequency modulational instability ``isolas" for a Stokes wave in arbitrary depth $ \mathtt{h} > 0 $, under longitudinal perturbations. We provide a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Massimiliano Berti , Livia Corsi , Alberto Maspero , Paolo Ventura

Through a massive computation we reached the fourth superharmonic instability branch of the Stokes' wave. Using the obtained results we checked phenomenological formulae for the dependence of the instability growth rates corresponding to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 A. O. Korotkevich , A. O. Prokofiev

By providing mathematical estimates, this paper answers a fundamental question -- "what leads to Stokes drift"? Although overwhelmingly understood for water waves, Stokes drift is a generic mechanism that stems from kinematics and occurs in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-27 Anirban Guha , Akanksha Gupta

We investigate the dynamics of several slender rigid bodies moving in a flow driven by the three-dimensional steady Stokes system in presence of a smooth background flow. More precisely we consider the limit where the thickness of these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Richard M. Höfer , Christophe Prange , Franck Sueur

We derive an exact solution for Stokes flow in an in a channel with permeable walls. We assume that at the channel walls, the normal component of the fluid velocity is described by Darcy's law and the tangential component of the fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-03 Gregory J. Herschlag , Jian-Guo Liu , Anita T. Layton

We introduce a new model equation for Stokes gravity waves based on conformal transformations of Euler's equations. The local version of the model equation is relevant for dynamics of shallow water waves. It allows us to characterize the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Spencer Locke , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

In this paper we prove that the pressure beneath an extreme Stokes wave over finite depth is strictly increasing with depth. Additionally it is shown that the pressure decreases in moving between a crest-line and trough-line, while it is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-01 Tony Lyons

This paper is a study of the water wave problem in a two-dimensional domain of infinite depth in the presence of nonzero constant vorticity. A goal is to describe the effects of uniform shear flow on the modulation of weakly nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Philippe Guyenne , Adilbek Kairzhan , Catherine Sulem

Steady and unsteady linearised flow past a submerged source are studied in the small-surface-tension limit, in the absence of gravitational effects. The free-surface capillary waves generated are exponentially small in the surface tension,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Christopher J. Lustri , Ravindra Pethiyagoda , S. Jonathan Chapman

The linear stability of the laminar boundary layer flow of a Stokes wave in deep waters is investigated by means of a 'momentary' criterion of instability for unsteady flows (Blondeaux and Seminara, 1979). In the parameter range…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-10 Francesco Fedele

We consider Stokes' conjecture concerning the shape of the extremal two-dimensional water wave. By new geometric methods including a nonlinear frequency formula, we prove Stokes' conjecture in the original variables. Our results do not rely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-04-28 E. Varvaruca , G. S. Weiss

Gerstner or trochoidal wave is the only known exact solution of the Euler equations for periodic surface gravity waves on deep water. In this Letter we utilize Zakharov's variational formulation of weakly nonlinear surface waves and,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-29 Nail S. Ussembayev

This paper considers two-dimensional steady solitary waves with constant vorticity propagating under the influence of gravity over an impermeable flat bed. Unlike in previous works on solitary waves, we allow for both internal stagnation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Susanna V. Haziot , Miles. H. Wheeler

Permanent gravity waves propagating in deep water, spanning amplitudes from infinitesimal to their theoretical limiting values, remain a classical yet challenging problem due to its inherent nonlinear complexities. Traditional analytical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-14 Chong Lin , Shijun Liao

We report on an instability arising when surface gravity waves propagate in a rotating frame. The Stokes drift associated to the uniform wave field, together with global rotation, drives a mean flow in the form of a horizontally invariant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-26 Kannabiran Seshasayanan , Basile Gallet

We study exact solutions for the slow viscous flow of an infinite liquid caused by two rigid spheres approaching each either along or parallel to their line of centres, valid at all separations. This goes beyond the applicable range of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-30 B. D. Goddard , R. D. Mills-Williams , J. Sun

We study the two-phase Stokes flow driven by surface tension with two fluids of equal viscosity, separated by an asymptotically flat interface with graph geometry. The flow is assumed to be two-dimensional with the fluids filling the entire…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc , Georg Prokert

An alternative form of the general solution of the linearized stationary Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible fluid in spherical coordinates is obtained by the vector potential method. A previously published solution to this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-10 Peter Lebedev-Stepanov

In 1880, Stokes examined an incompressible irrotational periodic traveling water wave under the influence of gravity and conjectured the existence of an extreme wave with a corner of $120^{\circ}$ at the crest. The first rigorous proof of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Lili Du , Chunlei Yang

We study the two-phase Stokes flow driven by surface tension for two fluids of different viscosities, separated by an asymptotically flat interface representable as graph of a differentiable function. The flow is assumed to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc , Georg Prokert