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The interaction of surface waves with Couette-type current with uniform vorticity is a well suited problem for students approaching the theory of surface waves. The problem, although mathematically simple, contains rich physics, and is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-26 Simen Å Ellingsen , Iver Brevik

In this paper, theoretical and numerical studies of perfect/nearly-perfect conversion of a plane wave into a surface wave are presented. The problem of determining the electromagnetic properties of an inhomogeneous lossless boundary which…

The currents in the ocean have a serious impact on ocean dynamics, since they affect the transport of mass and thus the distribution of salinity, nutrients and pollutants. In many physically important situations the current depends…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-22 Conor Curtin , Rossen Ivanov

In current scientific and technological scenario, studies of transmittance of surface waves across structured interfaces have gained some wind amidst applications to metasurfaces, electronic edge-waves, crystal grain boundaries, etc. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Basant Lal Sharma

We investigate the existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions near monotonic shear flows with non-constant background density for the two-dimensional inhomogeneous Euler equations in a finite channel. For any small $\tau>0$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Qi Zhao , Weiren Zhao

We consider a nonlocal semi-linear parabolic equation on a connected exterior domain of the form $\mathbb{R}^N\setminus K$, where $K\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ is a compact "obstacle". The model we study is motivated by applications in biology and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Julien Brasseur , Jérôme Coville

Motivated by the discrepancy between satellite observations of coherent westward propagating surface features and Rossby wave theory, this paper revisits the planetary wave propagation problem, taking into account the effects of lateral…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Xiao Xiao , K. Shafer Smith , Shane R. Keating

In this paper we study the global existence of small data solutions to the Cauchy problem for the semilinear wave equation with scale-invariant damping. We obtain estimates for the solution and its energy with the same decay rate of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Marcello D'Abbicco

In this paper, we study the solitary wave and the Cauchy problem for Half-wave-Schr\"{o}dinger equations in the plane. First, we show the existence and orbital stability of the ground states. Secondly, we prove that traveling waves exist…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Yakine Bahri , Slim Ibrahim , Hiroaki Kikuchi

In order to ascertain conditions for surface-wave propagation guided by the planar interface of an isotropic dielectric material and a sculptured nematic thin film (SNTF) with periodic nonhomogeneity, we formulated a boundary-value problem,…

Optics · Physics 2009-05-08 Kartiek Agarwal , John A. Polo , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

In this paper we analyze the effect of a combined pure homogeneous strain and simple shear in a principal plane of the latter on the propagation of surface waves for an incompressible isotropic elastic half-space whose boundary is normal to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-24 Michel Destrade , Ray W. Ogden

We study 4 problems in the area of scattering of time harmonic acoustic or electromagnetic waves by unbounded rough surfaces/inhomogeneous layers. Specifically we study: i) a boundary value problem (BVP) for the Helmholtz equation, in both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Thomas Baden-Riess

We consider shear wave propagation in soft viscoelastic solids of rate type. Based on objective stress rates, the constitutive model accounts for finite strain, incompressibility, as well as stress- and strain-rate viscoelasticity. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-25 Harold Berjamin , Michel Destrade , Giuseppe Saccomandi

Viscous linear surface waves are studied at arbitrary wavelength, layer thickness, viscosity and surface tension. We find that in shallow enough fluids no surface waves can propagate. This layer thickness is determined for some fluids,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-23 Arash Ghahraman , Gyula Bene

Two-dimensional nonlinear gravity waves travelling in shallow water on a vertically sheared current of constant vorticity are considered. Using Euler equations, in the shallow water approximation, hyperbolic equations for the surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-04 Christian Kharif , Malek Abid

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for semi-linear wave equations with structural damping term $\nu (-\Delta)^2 u_t$, where $\nu >0$ is a constant. As being mentioned in [8,10], the linear principal part brings both the diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Tuan Anh Dao , Hiroshi Takeda

We consider waves radiated by a disturbance of oscillating strength moving at constant velocity along the free surface of a shear flow which, when undisturbed, has uniform horizontal vorticity of magnitude $S$. When no current is present…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Yan Li , Simen Å. Ellingsen

Material surface may have a remarkable effect on the mechanical behavior of magneto-electro-elastic (or multiferroic) structures at nano-scale. In this paper, a surface magneto-electro-elasticity theory (or effective boundary condition…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-29 Bin Wu , Chunli Zhang , Weiqiu Chen , Chuanzeng Zhang

We prove a stability threshold theorem for 2D Navier-Stokes on three unbounded domains: the whole plane $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}$, the half plane $\mathbb{R} \times [0,\infty)$ with Navier boundary conditions, and the infinite channel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Ryan Arbon , Jacob Bedrossian

The Liouville-von Neumann equation describes the change in the density matrix with time. Interestingly, this equation was recently regarded as a wave equation for wave functions but not a equation for density functions. This setting leads…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Youngwoo Koh , Yoonjung Lee , Ihyeok Seo