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In this paper, we establish the transverse linear asymptotic stability of one-dimensional small-amplitude solitary waves of the gravity water-waves system. More precisely, we show that the semigroup of the linearized operator about the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Frédéric Rousset , Changzhen Sun

We study an imbibition problem for porous media. When a wetted layer is above a dry medium, gravity leads to the propagation of the water downwards into the medium. In experiments, the occurrence of fingers was observed, a phenomenon that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-24 K. Mitra , A. Rätz , B. Schweizer

We investigate theoretically the onset of capillary-gravity waves created by a small object moving at the water-air interface. It is well established that, for straight uniform motion, no steady waves appear at velocities below the minimum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-01-13 A. D. Chepelianskii , M. Schindler , F. Chevy , E. Raphaël

We study steady axisymmetric water waves with general vorticity and swirl, subject to the influence of surface tension. This can be formulated as an elliptic free boundary problem in terms of Stokes' stream function. A change of variables…

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

This paper investigates solitary water waves propagating along the surface of a two-dimensional dielectric fluid with constant vorticity in the presence of an external electric field. We formulate the system as a nonlinear free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Tingting Feng , Yong Zhang , Zhitao Zhang

We consider a continuum active polar fluid model for the spreading of epithelial monolayers introduced by R. Alert, C. Blanch-Mercader, and J. Casademunt, 2019. The corresponding free boundary problem possesses flat front traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Leonid Berlyand , Antonina Rybalko , Volodymyr Rybalko , Clarke Alex Safsten

In this short note, we derive a system of two nonlocal equations for the water-wave problem following the work of [AFM06]. Specifically, we consider a fluid with a one-dimensional free surface for an irrotational fluid both with, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-04 KL Oliveras

This paper considers the existence and stability properties of two-dimensional solitary waves traversing an infinitely deep body of water. We assume that above the water is vacuum, and that the waves are acted upon by gravity with surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Hung Le

The far field asymptotic of internal waves is constructed for the case when a point source of mass moves in a layer of arbitrarily stratified fluid with slowly varying bottom. The solutions obtained describe the far field both near the wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vitaly V. Bulatov , Yuriy V. Vladimirov , Vasily A. Vakorin

We consider doubly-periodic travelling waves at the surface of an infinitely deep perfect fluid, only subjected to gravity $g$ and resulting from the nonlinear interaction of two simply periodic travelling waves making an angle $2\theta $…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Gérard Iooss , Pavel I. Plotnikov

This paper gives an analysis of the movement of n+1 almost parallel filaments or vortices. Starting from a polygonal equilibrium of n vortices with equal circulation and one vortex at the center of the polygon, we find bifurcation of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-03-27 C. García-Azpeitia , J. Ize

A study was made of the instability that arises when acoustic and gravity waves propagate in an inhomogeneous medium which is characterized by oscillatory approach of the reaction coordinates to the steady state. It is shown that loss of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 N. N. Myagkov

The comprehension of stratified flows is important for geophysical and astrophysical applications. The Weak Wave Turbulence theory aims to provide a statistical description of internal gravity waves propagating in the bulk of such flows.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-21 Vincent Labarre , Pierre Augier , Giorgio Krstulovic , Sergey Nazarenko

The purpose of this paper is to prove that, for a large class of nonlinear evolution equations known as scalar viscous balance laws, the spectral (linear) instability condition of periodic traveling wave solutions implies their orbital…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Enrique Álvarez , Jaime Angulo Pava , Ramón G. Plaza

We consider the gravity water waves system in the case of a one dimensional interface, for sufficiently smooth and localized initial data, and prove global existence of small solutions. This improves the almost global existence result of Wu…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Alexandru D. Ionescu , Fabio Pusateri

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

Astrophysical disks that are sufficiently cold and dense are linearly unstable to the formation of axisymmetric rings as a result of the disk's gravity. In practice, spiral structures are formed, which may in turn produce bound fragments.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Hongping Deng , Gordon I. Ogilvie

An experimental study is reported of the near-critical reflection of internal gravity waves over sloping topography in a stratified fluid. An overturning instability close to the slope and triggering the boundary-mixing process is observed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thierry Dauxois , Anthony Didier , Eric Falcon

The distance among two counter-rotating vortex filaments satisfies a beam-type of equation according to the model derived in [15]. This equation has an explicit solution where two straight filaments travel with constant speed at a constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Carlos García-Azpeitia

We prove the existence of small-amplitude periodic traveling waves in dimer Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) lattices without assumptions of physical symmetry. Such lattices are infinite, one-dimensional chains of coupled particles in which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Timothy E. Faver , Hermen Jan Hupkes , J. Douglas Wright