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We present a numerical study of spatially quasi-periodic gravity-capillary waves of finite depth in both the initial value problem and traveling wave settings. We adopt a quasi-periodic conformal mapping formulation of the Euler equations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-09 Jon Wilkening , Xinyu Zhao

The problem for two-dimensional steady water waves with vorticity is considered. Using methods of spatial dynamics, we reduce the problem to a finite dimensional Hamiltonian system. As an application, we prove the existence of non-symmetric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 Evgeniy Lokharu , Vladimir Kozlov

This paper considers two-dimensional stratified water waves propagating under the force of gravity over an impermeable flat bed and with a free surface. We prove the existence of a global continuum of classical solutions that are periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-11 Samuel Walsh

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 study stationary capillary-gravity waves in a two-dimensional body of water that rests above a flat ocean bed and below vacuum. This system is described by the Euler equations with a free surface. Our main result states that there exist…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Mats Ehrnström , Samuel Walsh , Chongchun Zeng

In this paper we construct small amplitude periodic internal waves traveling at the boundary region between two rotational and homogeneous fluids with different densities. Within a period, the waves we obtain have the property that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Anca-Voichita Matioc

We study surface gravity waves for viscous fluid flows governed by Darcy's law. The free boundary is acted upon by an external pressure posited to be in traveling wave form with a periodic profile. It has been proven that for any given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-13 John Brownfield , Huy Q. Nguyen

We prove the nonexistence of two-dimensional solitary gravity water waves with subcritical wave speeds and an arbitrary distribution of vorticity. This is a longstanding open problem, and even in the irrotational case there are only partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Vladimir Kozlov , Evgeniy Lokharu , Miles H. Wheeler

In this paper, we consider capillary-gravity waves propagating on the interface separating two fluids of finite depth and constant density. The flow in each layer is assumed to be incompressible and of constant vorticity. We prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Daniel Sinambela

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 consider a multi-fluid system with several free interfaces. For this system we prove existence of three-dimensional steady gravity-capillary waves with non-zero vorticity. We obtain non-zero vorticity by prescribing the relative velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Douglas Svensson Seth

We establish novel existence results of $3d$ gravity-capillary periodic traveling waves. In particular we prove the bifurcation of multiple, geometrically distinct truly $3d$ Stokes waves having the same momentum of any non-resonant $2d$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Tommaso Barbieri , Massimiliano Berti , Marco Mazzucchelli

In this paper we present a characterization of the symmetric rotational periodic gravity water waves of finite depth and without stagnation points in terms of the underlying flow. Namely, we show that such a wave is symmetric and has a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-24 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We adopt a robust numerical continuation scheme to examine the global bifurcation of periodic traveling waves of the capillary-gravity Whitham equation, which combines the dispersion in the linear theory of capillary-gravity waves and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-27 Efstathios G. Charalampidis , Vera Mikyoung Hur

We study two-dimensional periodic capillary-gravity water waves propagating at the free surface of water in a flow with arbitrary, prescribed vorticity over a flat bed. Using conformal mappings and a new Babenko-type reformulation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Erik Wahlén , Jörg Weber

This paper focuses on the analysis of stratified steady periodic water waves that contain stagnation points. The initial step involves transforming the free-boundary problem into a quasilinear pseudodifferential equation through a conformal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Wang Jun , Xu Fei , Zhang Yong

We provide analytic solutions of the nonlinear differential equation system describing the particle paths below small-amplitude periodic gravity waves travelling on a constant vorticity current. We show that these paths are not closed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Delia Ionescu-Kruse

In a prior work, the authors proved a global bifurcation theorem for spatially periodic interfacial hydroelastic traveling waves on infinite depth, and computed such traveling waves. The formulation of the traveling wave problem used both…

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

We numerically investigate the flow structure of periodic steady water waves of fixed relative mass flux propagating on rotational flows with piece-wise constant vorticity. We show that for wave solutions along the global bifurcation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-25 Lin Chen , Biswajit Basu , Calin-I Martin

The aim of this paper is to prove the existence of gravity-capillary Crapper waves with the presence of vorticity. In particular, we consider a concentrated vorticity: point vortex and vortex patch. We show that for small gravity and small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Diego Córdoba , Elena Di Iorio