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In geophysical environments, wave motions that are shaped by the action of gravity and global rotation bear the name of gravito-inertial waves. We present a geometrical description of gravito-inertial surface waves, which are low-frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yves Colin de Verdière , Jérémie Vidal

We investigate the existence of solitary gravity waves traversing a two-dimensional body of water that is bounded below by a flat impenetrable ocean bed and above by a free surface of constant pressure. Our main interest is constructing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Adelaide Akers , Samuel Walsh

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

In order to obtain quite precise information about the shape of the particle paths below small-amplitude gravity waves travelling on irrotational deep water, analytic solutions of the nonlinear differential equation system describing the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Delia Ionescu-Kruse

We prove a dispersive estimate for the solutions of the linearized Water-Waves equations in dimension 1 in presence of a flat bottom. We prove a decay with respect to time t of order 1/3 for solutions with initial data in weighted Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Benoît Mésognon-Gireau

The two dimensional gravity water wave problem concerns the motion of an incompressible fluid occupying half the 2D space and flowing under its own gravity. In this paper we study long-term regularity of solutions evolving from small but…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Fan Zheng

Theoretical results on water waves almost always start by assuming irrotationality of the flow in order to simplify the formulation. In this work, we investigate the well-foundedness of this hypothesis via numerical simulations of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 Alan Riquier , Emmanuel Dormy

In certain models of conformal gravity, the propagation of gravitational waves is governed by a fourth order scalar partial differential equation. We study the initial value problem for a generalization of this equation, and derive a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Sanjeev S. Seahra

We use the conformal approach to numerical relativity to evolve hyperboloidal gravitational wave data without any symmetry assumptions. Although our grid is finite in space and time, we cover the whole future of the initial data in our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Huebner

In this paper we construct periodic capillarity-gravity water waves with an arbitrary bounded vorticity distribution. This is achieved by reexpressing, in the height function formulation of the water wave problem, the boundary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Anca-Voichita matioc , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

In this work we discuss an approximate model for the propagation of deep irrotational water waves, specifically the model obtained by keeping only quadratic nonlinearities in the water waves system under the Zakharov/Craig-Sulem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Vincent Duchêne , Benjamin Melinand

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

This paper is concerned with two-dimensional, steady, periodic water waves propagating at the free surface of water either in a flow of finite depth and constant vorticity over an impermeable flat bed or in an irrotational flow of great…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-25 Peter de Boeck

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

The classical equations of irrotational water waves have recently been reformulated as a system of two equations, one of which is an explicit non-local equation for the wave height and for the velocity potential evaluated on the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-01 Anthony C. L Ashton , A. S. Fokas

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

We study the existence of traveling wave solutions to a unidirectional shallow water model which incorporates the full linear dispersion relation for both gravitational and capillary restoring forces. Using functional analytic techniques,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Mathew A. Johnson , J. Douglas Wright

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 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

For two-dimensional steady pure-gravity water waves with a unidirectional flow of constant favourable vorticity, we prove an explicit bound on the amplitude of the wave, which decays to zero as the vorticity tends to infinity. Notably, our…

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