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Observations of parametrically excited surface waves in a magnetic fluid are presented. Under the influence of a magnetic field these waves have a non--monotonic dispersion relation, which leads to a richer behavior than in ordinary…

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We consider the linear water-wave problem in a periodic channel which consists of infinitely many identical containers connected with apertures of width $\epsilon$. Motivated by applications to surface wave propagation phenomena, we study…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Fedor Bakharev , Keijo Ruotsalainen , Jari Taskinen

We show that there exists an exact solution for a lossless and reciprocal periodic surface impedance which ensures full conversion of a single-mode surface wave propagating along the impedance boundary to a single plane wave propagating…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Svetlana N. Tcvetkova , Stefano Maci , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Meniscus oscillations at interfaces between liquids, solids, and air significantly impact fluid dynamics and control. While idealized models exist, experimental data on capillary-gravity wave scattering involving meniscus effects remain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-21 Zhengwu Wang , Guoqin Liu , Likun Zhang

The characteristics of the surface waves along the interface between a plasma and a dielectric material have been investigated using kinetic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations. A microwave source of GHz frequency has been used to trigger…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Rinku Mishra , Sayan Adhikari , Rupak Mukherjee , B. J. Saikia

The equations for waves on the surface of an irrotational incompressible fluid are derived in the coordinates of the velocity potential/stream function. The low frequency shallow water approximation for these waves is derived for a varying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 W. G. Unruh

A theoretical study is presented of surface waves at a monomolecular surfactant film between an isotropic liquid and a nematic liquid crystal for the case when the surfactant film is in the isotropic two-dimensional fluid phase and induces…

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The nonlinear propagation of 3D wave-packets in a 1D Bragg-induced band-gap system, shows that tranverse effects (free space diffraction) affect the interplay of periodicity and nonlinearity, leading to the spontaneous formation of fast and…

Optics · Physics 2008-07-03 A. Di Falco , C. Conti , S. Trillo

Steady-state and transient antiplane dynamic processes in a structured solids consisting of uniform periodic square-cell lattices connected by a lattice layer of different bond stiffnesses and point masses are analyzed. A semi-infinite…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-12 Grigory Osharovich , Mark Ayzenberg-Stepanenko

Time modulation of the physical parameters offers interesting new possibilities for wave control. Examples include amplification of waves, harmonic generation and non-reciprocity, without resorting to non-linear mechanisms. Most of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Michaël Darche , Raphaël Assier , Sébastien Guenneau , Bruno Lombard , Marie Touboul

Evidence for capillary waves at a liquid/vapor interface are presented from extensive molecular dynamics simulations of a system containing up to 1.24 million Lennard-Jones particles. Careful measurements show that the total interfacial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Scott W. Sides , Gary S. Grest , Martin-D. Lacasse

Density waves were studied in a phase-separated binary complex plasma under microgravity conditions. For the big particles, waves were self-excited by the two-stream instability, while for small particles, they were excited by heartbeat…

We introduce the concept of a metasurface system able to route space wave via surface waves. This concept may be used to laterally shift or modulate the beam width of scattered waves. We propose two corresponding synthesis techniques, one…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-19 Karim Achouri , Christophe Caloz

We study the effects of an uneven bottom on the internal wave propagation in the presence of stratification and underlying non-uniform currents. Thus, the presented models incorporate vorticity (wave-current interactions), geophysical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-03-08 Rossen I. Ivanov , Calin I. Martin , Michail D. Todorov

We analyse waves that propagate along the interface between a dielectric half-space and a half-space filled with a Lorentz material. We show that the corresponding interface condition leads to a generalisation of the classical Leontovich…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-26 Kirill Cherednichenko , William Graham

The propagation of surface water waves interacting with a current and an uneven bottom is studied. Such a situation is typical for ocean waves where the winds generate currents in the top layer of the ocean. The role of the bottom…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-19 Alan C. Compelli , Rossen I. Ivanov , Calin I. Martin , Michail D. Todorov

Solidification of alloys in a thermal gradient usually involves the generation of flows by thermal or thermosolutal convection. We experimentally study their effects on the dynamics of a solidification interface by inducing a controlled…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-28 Alain Pocheau , Tania Jiang , Marc Georgelin

A Hamiltonian model for the propagation of internal water waves interacting with surface waves, a current and an uneven bottom is examined. Using the so-called Dirichlet-Neumann operators, the water wave system is expressed in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-09 Lili Fan , Ruonan Liu , Hongjun Gao

With molecular simulation for water and a tunable hydrophobic substrate, we apply the instantaneous interface construction [A. P. Willard and D. Chandler, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114, 1954 (2010)] to examine the similarity between a water-vapor…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-21 Adam P. Willard , David Chandler

We demonstrate analytically that gravitational waves, upon interacting with co-propagating electromagnetic radiation in a plasma, induce distinctive sidebands on the modulated light, thereby providing a detectable signature of their…

General Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Martin W. McCall , Stefanos Fr. Koufidis