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The existence of multi-speed solitary waves for the one-dimensional good Boussinesq equation with a power nonlinearity is proven. These solutions are shown to behave at large times as a pair of scalar solitary waves traveling at different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Vicente Alvarez , Amin Esfahani

We consider a thermodynamically consistent diffuse interface model describing two-phase flows of incompressible fluids in a non-isothermal setting. This model was recently introduced in a previous paper of ours, where we proved existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-09 Michela Eleuteri , Elisabetta Rocca , Giulio Schimperna

We consider the stabilization problem on a manifold with boundary for a wave equation with measure-valued linear damping. For a wide class of measures, containing Dirac masses on hypersurfaces as well as measures with fractal support, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Hans Christianson , Emmanuel Schenck , Michael Taylor

In this paper, we establish the existence of Stokes waves with piecewise smooth vorticity in a two-dimensional, infinitely deep fluid domain. These waves represent traveling water waves propagating over sheared currents in a semi-infinite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Changfeng Gui , Jun Wang , Wen Yang , Yong Zhang

We show the existence of periodic traveling waves at the free surface of a two dimensional, infinitely deep, and constant vorticity flow, under gravity, whose profiles are overhanging, including one which intersects itself to enclose a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Miles H. Wheeler

We study the two-dimensional problem of propagation of linear water waves in deep water in the presence of a submerged body. Under some geometrical requirements, we derive an explicit bound for the solution depending on the domain and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Ilia Kamotski , Vladimir Maz'ya

In a recent letter, Carpenter and Guha (2019) compared the neutral modes of a smooth two dimensional shear profile without an inflection point to the modes of its corresponding piecewise-linear profile. The regular mode in the smooth…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Eyal Heifetz , Anirban Guha , Jeff Carpenter

Surface and interfacial weakly-nonlinear ring waves in a two-layer fluid are modelled numerically, within the framework of the recently derived 2+1-dimensional cKdV-type equation. In a case study, we consider concentric waves from a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-24 K. R. Khusnutdinova , X. Zhang

We consider the Isobe-Kakinuma model for two-dimensional water waves in the case of the flat bottom. The Isobe-Kakinuma model is a system of Euler-Lagrange equations for a Lagrangian approximating Luke's Lagrangian for water waves. We show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Mathieu Colin , Tatsuo Iguchi

Periodic waves are standing wave solutions of nonlinear Schr\''odinger equations whose profile is periodic in space dimension one. We consider general nonlinearities and provide variational characterizations for the periodic wave profiles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Perla Kfoury , Stefan Le Coz

Nonlinear waves in a liquid containing gas bubbles are considered in the three-dimensional case. Nonlinear evolution equation is given for description of long nonlinear pressure waves. It is shown that in the general case the equation is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-01-24 Nikolay A. Kudryashov , Dmitry I. Sinelshchikov

Fully localised three-dimensional solitary waves are steady water waves which are evanescent in every horizontal direction. This paper presents an existence theory for such waves under the assumptions that the relative vorticity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Mark D. Groves , Erik Wahlén

We study a nonlinear wave for a system of balance laws in one space dimension, which describes combustion for two-phase (gas and liquid) flow in porous medium. The problem is formulated for a general $N$-component liquid for modeling the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-25 Max Endo Kokubun , Alexei Mailybaev

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 analyze the spectral properties and peculiar behavior of solutions of a damped wave equation on a finite interval with a singular damping of the form $\alpha/x$, $\alpha>0$. We establish the exponential stability of the semigroup for all…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Pedro Freitas , Nicolas Hefti , Petr Siegl

In this paper we derive a two-component system of nonlinear equations which model two-dimensional shallow water waves with constant vorticity. Then we prove well-posedness of this equation using a geometrical framework which allows us to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Joachim Escher , David Henry , Boris Kolev , Tony Lyons

The stochastic motion of a two-dimensional vesicle in linear shear flow is studied at finite temperature. In the limit of small deformations from a circle, Langevin-type equations of motion are derived, which are highly nonlinear due to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Reimar Finken , Antonio Lamura , Udo Seifert , Gerhard Gompper

We study the two-dimensional gravity water waves with a one-dimensional interface with small initial data. Our main contributions include the development of two novel localization lemmas and a Transition-of-Derivatives method, which enable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Qingtang Su , Siwei Wang

We consider the two-dimensional capillary water waves with nonzero constant vorticity in infinite depth. We first derive the Babenko equation that describes the profile of the solitary wave. When the velocity $c$ is close to a critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-08 James Rowan , Lizhe Wan

In the dynamics generated by the suspension bridge equation, traveling waves are an essential feature. The existing literature focuses primarily on the idealized one-dimensional case, while traveling structures in two spatial dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Lindsey van der Aalst , Jan Bouwe van den Berg , Jean-Philippe Lessard