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This paper investigates solitary water waves propagating along the surface of a two-dimensional dielectric fluid with constant vorticity in the presence of an external electric field. We formulate the system as a nonlinear free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Tingting Feng , Yong Zhang , Zhitao Zhang

Numerically computed with high accuracy are periodic traveling waves at the free surface of a two dimensional, infinitely deep, and constant vorticity flow of an incompressible inviscid fluid, under gravity, without the effects of surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-25 Sergey A. Dyachenko , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Denis A. Silantyev

The Stokes velocity $\mathbf{u}^\mathrm{S}$, defined approximately by Stokes (1847, Trans. Camb. Philos. Soc., 8, 441-455), and exactly via the Generalized Lagrangian Mean, is divergent even in an incompressible fluid. We show that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jacques Vanneste , William R. Young

We provide a new method to recover the profile of Stokes waves, and more generally of waves with smooth vorticity, from measurements of the horizontal velocity component on a vertical axis of symmetry of the wave surface. Although we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

As mentioned by Schwartz (1974) and Cokelet (1977), it was failed to gain convergent results of limiting Stokes' waves in extremely shallow water by means of perturbation methods even with the aid of extrapolation techniques such as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-06 Xiaoxu Zhong , Shijun Liao

In an effort to study the stability of contact lines in fluids, we consider the dynamics of an incompressible viscous Stokes fluid evolving in a two-dimensional open-top vessel under the influence of gravity. This is a free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Yan Guo , Ian Tice

In this paper, we consider a stationary, constant viscosity, incompressible Stokes flow with singular forces along one or several interfaces. Assuming only the jumps of the pressure are present along the interface, we develop a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-26 K. S. Chang , D. Y. Kwak

New analytical representations of the Stokes flows due to periodic arrays of point singularities in a two-dimensional no-slip channel and in the half-plane near a no-slip wall are derived. The analysis makes use of a conformal mapping from…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Darren Crowdy , Elena Luca

In this paper, we study the nonlinear modulational instability of two-dimensional hydroelastic Stokes waves in infinite depth. We first justify a focusing cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) approximation result for 2D deep hydroelastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Lizhe Wan , Jiaqi Yang

We analyse the dynamics of a weakly elastic spherical particle translating parallel to a rigid wall in a quiescent Newtonian fluid in the Stokes limit. The particle motion is constrained parallel to the wall by applying a point force and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Shashikant Verma , Dinesh B , Navaneeth K Marath

Finite-amplitude gravity waves at the air-water interface induce net fluid and particle transport, known as Stokes drift. While this mechanism is well understood for steady waves, transport under unsteady, evolving conditions remains poorly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-29 Tatsuo Izawa , Giulio Foggi Rota , Alessandro Chiarini , Marco Edoardo Rosti

Electron transport in two-dimensional conducting materials such as graphene, with dominant electron-electron interaction, exhibits unusual vortex flow that leads to a nonlocal current-field relation (negative resistance), distinct from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-22 Jonathan Mayzel , Victor Steinberg , Atul Varshney

The weakly nonlinear dynamics of the free surface of a dielectric liquid in an electric field directed tangentially to the unperturbed boundary is investigated numerically. Within the framework of the strong field model, when the effects of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-28 Evgeny A. Kochurin , Olga V. Zubareva , Nikolay M. Zubarev

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

The problem of existence of stable nonlinear groups of gravity waves in deep water is revised by means of laboratory and numerical simulations with the focus on intense waves. Wave groups with steepness up to $A_{cr} \omega_m^2 /g \approx…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-30 Alexey Slunyaev , Günther F. Clauss , Marco Klein , Miguel Onorato

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

We overview the recent result [3, Theorem 1.1] about the high-frequency instability of Stokes waves subject to longitudinal perturbations. The spectral bands of unstable eigenvalues away from the origin form a sequence of {\it isolas}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Massimiliano Berti , Livia Corsi , Alberto Maspero , Paolo Ventura

We deal with a steady Stokes-type problem, associated with a flow of a Newtonian incompressible fluid through a spatially periodic profile cascade. The used mathematical model is based on the reduction to one spatial period, represented by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Tomas Neustupa

The dynamics of solitary gravity-capillary water waves propagating on the surface of a three-dimensional fluid domain is studied numerically. In order to accurately compute complex time dependent solutions, we simplify the full potential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhan Wang , Paul A Milewski

This study analyzes steady periodic hydroelastic waves propagating on the water surface of finite depth beneath nonlinear elastic membranes. Unlike previous work \cite{BaldiT,BaldiT1,Toland,Toland1}, our formulation accommodates rotational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Yong Zhang