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The interaction of obliquely incident surface gravity waves with a vertical flexible permeable membrane wave barrier is investigated in the context of three-dimensional linear wave-structure interaction theory. A general formulation for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-20 Santanu Koley , Trilochan Sahoo

Using a nonlocal version of the center manifold theorem and a normal form reduction, we prove the existence of small-amplitude generalized solitary-wave solutions and modulated solitary-wave solutions to the steady gravity-capillary Whitham…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Mathew A. Johnson , Tien Truong , Miles H. Wheeler

We develop a unified approach to integrating the Whitham modulation equations. Our approach is based on the formulation of the initial value problem for the zero dispersion KdV as the steepest descent for the scalar Riemann-Hilbert problem,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2010-09-17 Gennady A. El , Alexander L. Krylov , Stephanos Venakides

It is a matter of experience that nonlinear waves in dispersive media, propagating primarily in one direction, may appear periodic in small space and time scales, but their characteristics --- amplitude, phase, wave number, etc. --- slowly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Jared C. Bronski , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

In the present manuscript, we consider the practical problem of wave interaction with a vertical wall. However, the novelty here consists in the fact that the wall can move horizontally due to a system of springs. The water wave evolution…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Gayaz Khakimzyanov , Denys Dutykh

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

The classic evolution equations for potential flow on the free surface of a fluid flow are not closed because the pressure and the vertical velocity dynamics are not specified on the free surface. Moreover, their wave dynamics does not…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-16 Dan Crisan , Darryl D. Holm , Oliver D. Street

We survey some topics involving the Whitham equations, concentrating on the role of the product of the wave function and its adjoint in averaging and in producing Cauchy kernels and differentials on Riemann surfaces. There are also some new…

solv-int · Physics 2008-02-03 Robert Carroll

The mild-slope equation and its various modifications aim to model, with varying degrees of success, linear water wave propagation over sloping or undulating seabed topography. However, despite multiple modifications and attempted…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Chengnian Xiao

In this work, modulation of periodic interfacial waves on a conduit of viscous liquid is explored utilizing Whitham theory and Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) theory. Large amplitude periodic wave modulation theory does not require…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 Michelle D. Maiden , Mark. A. Hoefer

For a dissipative system with Ohmic friction, we obtain a simple and exact solution for the wave function of the system plus the bath. It is described by the direct product in two independent Hilbert space. One of them is described by an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Li Hua Yu , Chang-Pu Sun

Dissipationless hydrodynamics regularized by dispersion describe a number of physical media including water waves, nonlinear optics, and Bose-Einstein condensates. As in the classical theory of hyperbolic equations where a non-convex flux…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 Patrick Sprenger , Mark A. Hoefer

We have derived the extended Korteweg-de Vries equation describing the long gravity waves without limitation to surface deviation. The only restriction to the surface deviation is connected with the stability condition for appropriate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-19 Vladimir I. Kruglov

General phenomenological theory of hydrodynamic waves in regions with smooth loss of convexity of isentropes is developed based on the fact that for most media these regions in p-V plane are anomalously small. Accordingly the waves are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael I. Tribelsky , Sergei I. Anisimov

We describe traveling waves in a basic model for three-dimensional water-wave dynamics in the weakly nonlinear long-wave regime. Small solutions that are periodic in the direction of translation (or orthogonal to it) form an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Robert L. Pego , Jose Raul Quintero

We consider the two-dimensional water-wave problem with a general non-zero vorticity field in a fluid volume with a flat bed and a free surface. The nonlinear equations of motion for the chosen surface and volume variables are expressed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Delia Ionescu-Kruse , Rossen Ivanov

In 1895, Korteweg and de Vries (KdV), derived their celebrated equation describing the motion of waves of long wavelength in shallow water. In doing so they made a number of quite reasonable assumptions, incompressibility of the water and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-15 Matthew Hunt , Denys Dutykh

This paper presents a novel methodology for the direct numerical modeling and simulation of turbulent flows. The kinetic model equation is firstly extended to turbulent flow with the account of coupled evolution of kinetic, thermal, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

We have proposed a new method for solving the problem of ship waves excited on the surface of a non-viscous liquid by a submerged object that moves at a variable speed. As a first application of this method, we have obtained a new solution…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-17 Anrei V. Arzhannikov , Igor A. Kotelnikov

We present a systematic derivation of the wave kinetic equation describing the dynamics of a statistically inhomogeneous incoherent wave field in a medium with a weak quadratic nonlinearity. The medium can be nonstationary and…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-30 D. E. Ruiz , M. E. Glinsky , I. Y. Dodin