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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

We are interested in the system of gravity water waves equations without surface tension. Our purpose is to study the optimal regularity thresholds for the initial conditions. In terms of Sobolev embeddings, the initial surfaces we consider…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-17 Thomas Alazard , Nicolas Burq , Claude Zuily

In this article we deal with a class of geometric inverse problem for bottom detection by one single measurement on the free surface in water--waves. We found upper and lower bounds for the size of the region enclosed between two different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-02 R. Lecaros , J. López-Ríos , J. H. Ortega , S. Zamorano

The two-dimensional free-boundary problem describing steady gravity waves with vorticity on water of finite depth is considered. It is proved that no small-amplitude waves are supported by a horizontal shear flow whose free surface is still…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolay Kuznetsov

In this paper, we consider 2D incompressible Euler equations in an unbounded domain with a free surface and a fixed bottom at finite depth. The fluid motion is under the influence of gravity and surface tension. We construct initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Yuanpeng Tu

The two-dimensional free-boundary problem describing steady gravity waves with vorticity on water of finite depth is considered. Under the assumption that the vorticity is a negative constant whose absolute value is sufficiently large, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolai G. Kuznetsov , Evgeniy Lokharu

We consider the asymptotic behaviour of small-amplitude gravity water waves in a rectangular domain where the water depth is much smaller than the horizontal scale. The control acts on one lateral boundary, by imposing the horizontal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Pei Su

We establish the existence of gravity water waves by applying a mountain pass theorem to a singular perturbation of the Alt-Caffarelli functional associated with the two-dimensional water wave equations. Our approach is formulated entirely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Dennis Kriventsov , Georg S. Weiss

We construct small-amplitude steady periodic gravity water waves arising as the free surface of water flows that contain stagnation points and possess a discontinuous distribution of vorticity in the sense that the flows consist of two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Calin Iulian Martin , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We consider gravity water waves in two space dimensions, with finite or infinite depth. Assuming some uniform scale invariant Sobolev bounds for the solutions, we prove local energy decay (Morawetz) estimates globally in time. Our result is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Thomas Alazard , Mihaela Ifrim , Daniel Tataru

Regularizing effects of surface tension are studied for interfacial waves between a two-dimensional, infinitely-deep and irrotational flow of water and vacuum. The water wave problem under the influence of surface tension is formulated as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Vera Mikyoung Hur

We exhibit blow-up conditions for the gravity water-waves equations in any dimension and in domains with arbitrary bottoms. We follow the method by Alazard, Burq and Zuily of using a paradifferential reduction of the equations and derive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-28 Thibault de Poyferré

Nonlinear initial-boundary value problem on deep-water gravity waves of finite amplitude is solved approximately (up to small terms of higher order) assuming that the waves are generated by an initial disturbance to the water and the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-06-09 I. M. Mindlin

The classical irrotational capillary-gravity water wave problem described by the Euler equations with a nonlinear free surface boundary condition over a flat bed is considered. A modified flow force has been defined and a new formulation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Biswajit Basu , Calin Iulian Martin

This paper concerns the dynamics of two layers of compressible, barotropic, viscous fluid lying atop one another. The lower fluid is bounded below by a rigid bottom, and the upper fluid is bounded above by a trivial fluid of constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Juhi Jang , Ian Tice , Yanjin Wang

The gravity water waves equations describe the evolution of the surface of an incompressible, irrotational fluid in the presence of gravity. The classical regularity threshold for the well-posedness of this system requires initial velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Albert Ai

In a recent paper, Hur & Wheeler [J. Differential Equations, 338:572-590, 2022] proved the existence of periodic steady water waves over an infinitely deep, two-dimensional and constant vorticity flow under the influence of gravity. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Francisco Gonçalves

We investigate the existence of solitary gravity waves traversing a two-dimensional body of water that is bounded below by a flat impenetrable ocean bed and above by a free surface of constant pressure. Our main interest is constructing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Adelaide Akers , Samuel Walsh

This paper concerns the dynamics of two layers of compressible, barotropic, viscous fluid lying atop one another. The lower fluid is bounded below by a rigid bottom, and the upper fluid is bounded above by a trivial fluid of constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Juhi Jang , Ian Tice , Yanjin Wang

We consider in this article the system of (pure) gravity water waves in any dimension and in fluid domains with general bottoms. The unique solvability of the problem was established by Alazard-Burq-Zuily [Invent. Math, 198 (2014), no. 1,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Quang-Huy Nguyen