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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 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 equations for waves on the surface of an irrotational incompressible fluid are derived in the coordinates of the velocity potential/stream function. The low frequency shallow water approximation for these waves is derived for a varying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 W. G. Unruh

This paper is devoted to the stabilization of the incompressible Euler equation with free surface. We study the damping of two-dimensional gravity waves by an absorbing beach where the water-wave energy is dissipated by using the variations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Thomas Alazard

Two-dimensional nonlinear gravity waves travelling in shallow water on a vertically sheared current of constant vorticity are considered. Using Euler equations, in the shallow water approximation, hyperbolic equations for the surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-04 Christian Kharif , Malek Abid

The cubic-vortical Whitham equation is a model for wave motion on a vertically sheared current of constant vorticity in a shallow inviscid fluid. It generalizes the classical Whitham equation by allowing constant vorticity and by adding a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-19 John D. Carter , Henrik Kalisch , Christian Kharif , Malek Abid

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

We consider the 2D gravity water waves equation on an infinite domain. We prove a local wellposedness result which allows interfaces with corners and cusps as initial data and which is such that the time of existence of solutions is uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Siddhant Agrawal

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 paper, we prove the existence of two-dimensional, traveling, capillary-gravity, water waves with compactly supported vorticity. Specifically, we consider the cases where the vorticity is a $\delta$-function (a point vortex), or has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Jalal Shatah , Samuel Walsh , Chongchun Zeng

A class of water wave problems concerns the dynamics of the free interface separating an inviscid, incompressible and irrotational fluid, under the influence of gravity, from a zero-density region. In this note, we present some recent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-12 Sijue Wu

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 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

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 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

This paper is a study of the water wave problem in a two-dimensional domain of infinite depth in the presence of nonzero constant vorticity. A goal is to describe the effects of uniform shear flow on the modulation of weakly nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Philippe Guyenne , Adilbek Kairzhan , Catherine Sulem

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 the gravity-capillary water waves equations of a 2D fluid with constant vorticity. By employing variational methods we prove the bifurcation of periodic traveling water waves -- which are steady in a moving frame -- for {\it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-12 T. Barbieri , M. Berti , A. Maspero , M. Mazzucchelli

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

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of two-dimensional water waves characterized by a significant adverse constant vorticity over flows without stagnation points. Surprisingly, we discover qualitative distinctions between this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Evgeniy Lokharu