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This paper considers the propagation of shallow-water solitary and nonlinear periodic waves over a gradual slope with bottom friction in the framework of a variable-coefficient Korteweg-de Vries equation. We use the Whitham averaging…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-09-23 G. A. El , R. H. J. Grimshaw , A. M. Kamchatnov

We consider two- and three-dimensional gravity and gravity-capillary solitary water waves in infinite depth. Assuming algebraic decay rates for the free surface and velocity potential, we show that the velocity potential necessarily behaves…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Miles H. Wheeler

We generalize the method used by M{\ae}hlen & Seth [17] used to prove the existence of small-amplitude asymmetric solutions to the capillary-gravity Whiham equation, so that it can be applied directly to a class of similar equations. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Douglas Svensson Seth

This paper investigates the stability of traveling wave solutions to the free boundary Euler equations with a submerged point vortex. We prove that sufficiently small-amplitude waves with small enough vortex strength are conditionally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Kristoffer Varholm , Erik Wahlén , Samuel Walsh

The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of small-amplitude, unidirectional waves of all wavelengths on shallow water. It has been shown to accurately model the evolution of waves in laboratory experiments. We compute…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 John D. Carter

We study the behavior of solitary-wave solutions of some generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with an external potential. The equations have the feature that in the absence of the external potential, they have solutions describing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Frohlich , S. Gustafson , B. L. G. Jonsson , I. M. Sigal

In this paper, we consider the Fornberg-Whitham equation and a family of solitary wave solutions is found by using minimization principle, where a related penalization function and the concentration-compactness lemma play a key role in our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Yong Zhang , Fei Xu , Fengquan Li

We study here the existence of solitary wave solutions of a generalized two-component Camassa-Holm system. In addition to those smooth solitary-wave solutions, we show that there are solitary waves with singularities: peaked and cusped…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Robin Ming Chen , Yue Liu , Zhijun Qiao

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

We prove the existence of solitary waves in a lattice where all particles interact with each other by pair-wise repulsive forces that decay with distance. The variational existence proof is based on constrained optimization and provides a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Michael Herrmann , Karsten Matthies , Jan-Patrick Meyer

In this paper we study a class of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations which admit families of small solitary wave solutions. We consider solutions which are small in the energy space $H^1$, and decompose them into solitary wave and dispersive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Gustafson , Kenji Nakanishi , Tai-Peng Tsai

In this note we study solitary wave solutions of a class of Whitham-Boussinesq systems which includes the bi-directional Whitham system as a special example. The travelling wave version of the evolution system can be reduced to a single…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Dag Nilsson , Yuexun Wang

We consider the gravity water waves system with a periodic one-dimensional interface in infinite depth and we establish the existence and the linear stability of small amplitude, quasi-periodic in time, traveling waves. This provides the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Roberto Feola , Filippo Giuliani

We establish the existence of small-amplitude uni- and bimodal steady periodic gravity waves with an affine vorticity distribution, using a bifurcation argument that differs slightly from earlier theory. The solutions describe waves with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Ailo Aasen , Kristoffer Varholm

In this paper we consider two-dimensional, stratified, steady water waves propagating over an impermeable flat bed and with a free surface. The motion is assumed to be driven by capillarity (that is, surface tension) on the surface and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Samuel Walsh

The model we deal with is the mathematical model for mutually penetrating continua one of which is the carrying medium obeying the wave equation whereas the other one is the oscillating inclusion described by the equation for oscillators.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-12-17 Sergii Skurativskyi , Vjacheslav Danylenko

In order to determine the steady-state subcritical gravity-capillary waves that are produced by potential flow past a wave-making body, it is typically necessary to impose a radiation condition that allows for capillary waves upstream, but…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-22 Sean Jamshidi , Philippe H. Trinh

We consider two-dimensional inviscid irrotational flow in a two layer fluid under the effects of gravity and surface tension. The upper fluid is bounded above by a rigid lid, and the lower fluid is bounded below by a rigid bottom. We use a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Dag Nilsson

We present explicit solutions for the ordinary differential equations system describing the motion of the particles beneath small-amplitude capillary-gravity waves which propagate on the surface of an irrotational water flow with a flat…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Delia Ionescu-Kruse

We describe completely 2-solitary waves related to the ground state of the nonlinear damped Klein-Gordon equation \begin{equation*} \partial_{tt}u+2\alpha\partial_{t}u-\Delta u+u-|u|^{p-1}u=0 \end{equation*} on $\bf R^N$, for $1\leq N\leq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Raphaël Côte , Yvan Martel , Xu Yuan , Lifeng Zhao