Related papers: Mach-like capillary-gravity wakes
Extending the Swendsen-Wang cluster algorithm to include both bulk (H) and surface fields (H_1) in L x L x D Ising films of thickness D and two free L x L surfaces, a Monte Carlo study of the capillary condensation critical point of the…
The wake behind a sphere, rotating about an axis aligned with the streamwise direction, has been experimentally investigated in a low-velocity water tunnel using LIF visualizations and PIV measurements. The measurements focused on the…
We study the capillary retraction of a Newtonian semi-infinite liquid filament through analytical methods. We derive a long-time asymptotic-state expansion for the filament profile using a one-dimensional free-surface slender cylindrical…
The effect of viscosity on the wave resistance experienced by a 2d perturbation moving at uniform velocity over the free surface of a fluid is investigated. The analysis is based on Rayleigh's linearized theory of capillary-gravity waves.…
When a solid body floats at the interface of a vibrating liquid bath, the relative motion between the object and interface generates outwardly propagating surface waves. It has recently been demonstrated that millimetric objects with…
We consider the capillary-gravity water-waves problem of finite depth with a flat bottom of one or two horizontal dimensions. We derive the modulation equations of leading and next-to-leading order in the hyperbolic scaling for three weakly…
A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation for the envelope of two-dimensional gravity-capillary waves propagating at the free surface of a vertically sheared current of constant vorticity is derived. In this paper we extend to gravity-capillary…
The gradual suppression of the vertical motions and the emergence of large-scale horizontal structures are characteristics of a stratified wake flow. We isolate the resulting wake meandering from the stationary velocity, i.e., the velocity…
We study the long-time dynamics of small-amplitude solutions to the three-dimensional gravity-capillary water waves equations for an inviscid and irrotational fluid with periodic boundary conditions. We prove that, for almost all values of…
We find a new class of solutions that are traveling waves on the boundary of two--dimensional droplet of ideal fluid. We assume that the free surface is subject only to the force of surface tension, and the fluid flow is potential. We use…
We perform direct numerical simulations of laminar separated flows over finite-aspect-ratio swept wings at a chord-base Reynolds number of $Re = 400$ to reveal a variety of wake structures generated for a range of aspect ratios…
In this experimental study, we investigate the interaction of gravity-capillary solitary waves generated by two surface pressure sources moving side by side at constant speed. The nonlinear response of a water surface to a single source…
To reach a deeper understanding of fluid interfaces it is necessary to identify a meaningful coarse-graining length that separates intrinsic fluctuations from capillary ones, given the lack of a proper statistical mechanical definition of…
The transition to fully developed turbulence of a wake behind a circular cylinder is investigated with respect to its statistics. In particular, we evaluated the probability density functions of velocity increments on different length…
The oblique collisions and dynamical interference patterns of two-dimensional dispersive shock waves are studied numerically and analytically via the temporal dynamics induced by wedge-shaped initial conditions for the…
In this study, we investigate the flow around a canonical blunt body, specifically a D-shaped body of width $D$, in a closed water channel. Our goal is to explore near-wake flow modifications when a series of rigid and flexible plates…
It is widely known that bouncing models with a dust hydrodynamical fluid satisfying ${c_s^2=p_d/\rho_d\approx 0}$, where $c_s, p_d, \rho_d$ are the sound velocity, pressure and energy density of the dust fluid, respectively, have almost…
We model driven, compressible, isothermal, turbulence with Mach numbers ranging from the subsonic ($\mathcal{M} \approx 0.65$) to the highly supersonic regime ($\mathcal{M}\approx 16 $). The forcing scheme consists both solenoidal…
This work studies the three-dimensional flow dynamics around a rotating circular cylinder of finite length, whose axis is positioned perpendicular to the streamwise direction. Direct numerical simulations and global stability analyses are…
We consider in this article the system of gravity-capillary waves in all dimensions and under the Zakharov/Craig-Sulem formulation. Using a paradifferential approach introduced by Alazard-Burq-Zuily, we symmetrize this system into a…