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We study small-amplitude steady water waves with multiple critical layers. Those are rotational two-dimensional gravity-waves propagating over a perfect fluid of finite depth. It is found that arbitrarily many critical layers with cat's-eye…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mats Ehrnström , Joachim Escher , Gabriele Villari

We construct large families of two-dimensional travelling water waves propagating under the influence of gravity in a flow of constant vorticity over a flat bed. A Riemann-Hilbert problem approach is used to recast the governing equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Adrian Constantin , Walter Strauss , Eugen Varvaruca

In this paper we mainly investigate the traveling wave solution of the two dimensional Euler equations with gravity at the free surface over a flat bed. We assume that the free surface is almost periodic in the horizontal direction. Using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Wei Luo , Zhaoyang Yin

We construct three-dimensional families of small-amplitude gravity-driven rotational steady water waves on finite depth. The solutions contain counter-currents and multiple crests in each minimal period. Each such wave generically is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Mats Ehrnström , Erik Wahlén

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

We prove the existence of three-dimensional steady gravity-capillary waves with vorticity on water of finite depth. The waves are periodic with respect to a given two-dimensional lattice and the relative velocity field is a Beltrami field,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Evgeniy Lokharu , Douglas Svensson Seth , Erik Wahlén

We present the recent result [8] concerning the existence of quasi-periodic in time traveling waves for the 2d pure gravity water waves system in infinite depth. We provide the first existence result of quasi-periodic water waves solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Roberto Feola , Filippo Giuliani

Steady linear gravity waves of small amplitude travelling on a current of constant vorticity are found. For negative vorticity we show the appearance of internal waves and vortices, wherein the particle trajectories are not any more closed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-12-05 Mats Ehrnstrom , Gabriele Villari

This paper studies the classical water wave problem with vorticity described by the Euler equations with a free surface under the influence of gravity over a flat bottom. Based on fundamental work \cite{ConstantinStrauss}, we first obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Guowei Dai , Yong Zhang

This paper is concerned with two-dimensional, steady, periodic water waves propagating at the free surface of water in a flow of constant vorticity over an impermeable flat bed. The motion of these waves is assumed to be governed both by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Peter de Boeck

We study periodic, two-dimensional, gravity-capillary traveling wave solutions to a viscous shallow water system posed on an inclined plane. While thinking of the Reynolds and Bond numbers as fixed and finite, we vary the speed of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Noah Stevenson

We study the motion of an interface between two irrotational, incompressible fluids, with elastic bending forces present; this is the hydroelastic wave problem. We prove a global bifurcation theorem for the existence of families of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Benjamin F. Akers , David M. Ambrose , Davia W. Sulon

We investigate steady symmetric gravity water waves on finite depth. For non-positive vorticity it is shown that the particles display a mean forward drift, and for a class of waves we prove that the size of this drift is strictly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-12-05 Mats Ehrnstrom

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

Two-dimensional periodic surface waves propagating under the combined influence of gravity and surface tension on water of finite depth are considered. Within the framework of small-amplitude waves, we find the exact solutions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Delia Ionescu-Kruse

In this paper we construct periodic capillarity-gravity water waves with an arbitrary bounded vorticity distribution. This is achieved by reexpressing, in the height function formulation of the water wave problem, the boundary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Anca-Voichita matioc , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

In this paper, we study two-dimensional traveling waves in finite-depth water that are acted upon solely by gravity. We prove that, for any supercritical Froude number (non-dimensionalized wave speed), there exists a continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Robin Ming Chen , Kristoffer Varholm , Samuel Walsh , Miles H. Wheeler

We prove the existence of small amplitude time quasi-periodic solutions of the pure gravity water waves equations with constant vorticity, for a bidimensional fluid over a flat bottom delimited by a space periodic free interface. Using a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Massimiliano Berti , Luca Franzoi , Alberto Maspero

In this note, we study the existence of traveling waves of a surface model in a non-newtonian fluid with odd viscosity. The proof relies on nonlinear bifurcation techniques.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Diego Alonso-Orán , Claudia García , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

In this paper, we study two-dimensional steady solitary gravity waves propagating along the surface of a fluid of finite depth. In particular, we can deal with general vorticity distributions and overhanging wave profiles. By conformal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Jifeng Chu , Zihao Wang , Yong Zhang