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Hydrodynamic instability of a gravity-driven flow down an inclined plane is investigated in the presence of a floating elastic plate which rests on the top surface of the flow. Linear instability of the system with respect to infinitesimal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-17 Siluvai Antony Selvan , Sukhendu Ghosh , Harekrushna Behera , Michael H. Meylan

In an effort to study the stability of contact lines in fluids, we consider the dynamics of a drop of incompressible viscous Stokes fluid evolving above a one-dimensional flat surface under the influence of gravity. This is a free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Ian Tice , Lei Wu

Lubrication equations for a surfactant-driven flow of a thin layer of fluid are considered with a singular surfactant-dependent surface tension. It is shown that there exists a bounded traveling wave solution which connects a fully…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Joachim Escher , Matthieu Hillairet , Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

We consider the stability of periodic gravity free-surface water waves traveling downstream at a constant speed over a shear flow of finite depth. In case the free surface is flat, a sharp criterion of linear instability is established for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-28 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Zhiwu Lin

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 consider a layer of an inviscid fluid with free surface which is subject to vertical high-frequency vibrations. We derive three asymptotic systems of equations that describe slowly evolving (in comparison with the vibration frequency)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Konstantin Ilin

This paper considers a mathematical model of steady flows of an inviscid and incompressible fluid moving in the azimuthal direction. The water density varies with depth and the waves are propagating under the force of gravity, over a flat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Cristina Gheorghe , Andrei Stan

We consider a carpet of self-propelled particles at the liquid-gas interface of a liquid film on a solid substrate. The particles excert an excess pressure on the interface and also move along the interface while the swimming direction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrey Pototsky , Uwe Thiele , Holger Stark

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of an incompressible viscous Navier-Stokes fluid evolving above a one-dimensional flat surface. The fluid is subject to a uniform gravitational field and capillary forces acting along the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Xiaoding Yang

We consider a non-linear system modelling the dynamics of a linearly elastic body immersed in an incompressible viscous fluid, without damping on the elastic part. We prove local existence of strong solutions and global existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Karoline Disser , Michelle Luckas

Thin liquid films are ubiquitous across many natural and engineering systems, including films which are laden with surface active molecules, i.e. surfactants. The presence of surfactants may have a destabilising effect on the film owing to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-25 Toby Kay , Serafim Kalliadasis

In this paper, we determine an exact solution to the governing equations in spherical coordinates for an inviscid, incompressible fluid. This solution describes a steady, purely azimuthal equatorial flow with an associated free surface.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-09 Andrei Stan

We investigate the influence of surfactants on stabilizing the formation of interfaces in non-local anisotropic two-phase fluid at equilibrium. The analysis focuses on singularly perturbed non-local van der Waals-Cahn-Hillard-type energies,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Marco Cicalese , Tim Heilmann

Gravity shapes liquids and play a crucial role in their internal balance. Creating new equilibrium configurations irrespective of the presence of a gravitational field is challenging with applications on earth as well as in zero-gravity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-05 Benjamin Apffel , Samuel Hidalgo-Caballero , Antonin Eddi , Emmanuel Fort

We are concerned with the dynamical behavior of solutions to semilinear wave systems with time-varying damping and nonconvex force potential. Our result shows that the dynamical behavior of solution is asymptotically stable without any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Zhe Jiao , Yong Xu , Lijing Zhao

Consider a viscous fluid of finite depth below the air. In the absence of the surface tension effect at the air-fluid interface, the long time behavior of a free surface with small amplitude has been an intriguing question since the work of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-24 Yan Guo , Ian Tice

In this work the evolution of a fluid droplet in vacuum is considered. This means that the surface tension and the fluid forces are in equilibrium at the free boundary. The fluid is governed by the incompressible quasi-steady Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Malte Kampschulte , Joonas Niinikoski , Sebastian Schwarzacher

We introduce a notion of stability for non-autonomous Hamiltonian flows on two-dimensional annular surfaces. This notion of stability is designed to capture the sustained twisting of particle trajectories. The main Theorem is applied to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Theodore D. Drivas , Tarek M. Elgindi , In-Jee Jeong

The response of Newtonian liquids to small perturbations is usually considered to be fully described by homogeneous transport coefficients like shear and dilatational viscosity. However, the presence of strong density gradients at the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-29 Paolo Malgaretti , Ubaldo Bafile , Renzo Vallauri , Pál Jedlovszky , Marcello Sega

We consider rotating equilibrium states of fluid deformable surfaces. These states are characterized by a force balance between centrifugal and bending forces, involve surface Killing vector fields and are independent on the surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-20 Michael Nestler , Axel Voigt