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Nonlinear dynamics of surface gravity waves trapped by an opposing jet current is studied analytically and numerically. For wave fields narrowband in frequency but not necessarily with narrow angular distributions the developed asymptotic…

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We investigate the weakly nonlinear dynamics of transient gravity waves at infinite depth under the influence of a shear current varying linearly with depth. An analytical solution is permitted via integration of the Euler equations.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 A. H. Akselsen , Simen Å. Ellingsen

We study statically homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates with spatially inhomogeneous interactions and outline an experimental realization of compensating linear and nonlinear potentials that can yield constant-density solutions. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-09-26 Scott Holmes , Mason A. Porter , Peter Krüger , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We derived here in a systematic way, and for a large class of scaling regimes, asymptotic models for the propagation of internal waves at the interface between two layers of immiscible fluids of different densities, under the rigid lid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-12-27 Jerry L. Bona , David Lannes , Jean-Claude Saut

The instability and nonlinear evolution of directional ocean waves is investigated numerically by means of simulations of the governing kinetic equation for narrow-band surface waves. Our simulation results reveal the onset of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Bengt Eliasson , Padma K. Shukla

In this work, we present a numerical study of the wave stability of steady solitary waves over a localised topographic obstacle through the full Euler equations. There are two branches of the solutions: one from the perturbed uniform flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-08 Marcelo V. Flamarion , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr

We explore the bifurcation structure of mode-1 solitary waves in a three-layer fluid confined between two rigid boundaries. A recent study (Lamb, J. Fluid Mech. 2023, 962, A17) proposed a method to predict the coexistence of solitary waves…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-30 Ricardo Barros , Alex Doak , Wooyoung Choi , Paul Milewski

Laboratory experimental results are presented for nonlinear Internal Solitary Waves (ISW) propagation in deep water configuration with miscible fluids. The results are validated against direct numerical simulations and traveling wave exact…

Wave front propagation with non-trivial bottom topography is studied within the formalism of hyperbolic long wave models. Evolution of non-smooth initial data is examined, and in particular the splitting of singular points and their short…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 R. Camassa , R. D'Onofrio , G. Falqui , G. Ortenzi , M. Pedroni

A fully kinetic simulation approach, treating each plasma component based on the Vlasov equation, is adopted to study the disintegration of an initial density perturbation (IDP) into a number of ion-acoustic solitary waves (IASWs) in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 S. M. Jenab , F. Spanier

We investigate the qualitative dynamics of smooth solutions to the radially symmetric isentropic compressible Euler equations, focusing specifically on the evolution of rarefactive and compressive wave characters across three distinct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Eduardo Abreu , Geng Chen , Faris El-Katri , Erivaldo Lima

We consider Euler's equations for free surface waves traveling on a body of density stratified water in the scenario when gravity and surface tension act as restoring forces. The flow is continuously stratified, and the water layer is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Joachim Escher , Patrik Knopf , Christina Lienstromberg , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

This paper presents a new numerical model based on the highly nonlinear potential flow theory for simulating the propagation of water waves in variable depth. A new set of equations for estimating the surface vertical velocity is derived…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-02 Jinghua Wang

Using numerical modeling investigated interaction of solitary waves (solitons) of the regularized long wave equation. For reception the stable model of the nonlinear medium are used methods of the linear prediction and progressive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. A. Bunyak

The nonlinear evolution of an ion ring instability in a low-beta magnetospheric plasma is considered. The evolution of the two-dimensional ring distribution is essentially quasilinear. Ignoring nonlinear processes the time-scale for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Mithaiwala , L. Rudakov1 , G. Ganguli , C. Crabtree

We modify the nonlinear shallow water equations, the Korteweg-de Vries equation, and the Whitham equation, to permit constant vorticity, and examine wave breaking, or the lack thereof. By wave breaking, we mean that the solution remains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Vera Mikyoung Hur

The nonlinear development of finite amplitude disturbances in mixed convection flow in a heated vertical annulus is studied by direct numerical simulation. The unsteady Navier Stokes equations are solved numerically by a spectral method for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Yao , S. Ghosh Moulic

We investigate the large-time asymptotic behavior toward the planar entropy wave for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in Eulerian coordinates, considering two types of initial perturbations -- with and without the assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Ren-Jun Duan , Feimin Huang , Rui Li , Lingda Xu

We perform one of the first studies into the nonlinear evolution of tidally excited inertial waves in a uniformly rotating fluid body, exploring a simplified model of the fluid envelope of a planet (or the convective envelope of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 B. Favier , A. J. Barker , C. Baruteau , G. I. Ogilvie

In this paper, we characterized resonant interaction of weakly nonlinear hyperbolic waves in gas dynamics with a real gas background. An asymptotic approach is used to study the interaction between waves, governed by the Euler equations of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Harsh V. Mahara , V. D. Sharma