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This paper is devoted to the 2D gravity-capillary water waves equations in their Hamiltonian formulation, addressing the general question of proving Morawetz inequalities. We continue the analysis initiated in our previous work, where we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Thomas Alazard , Mihaela Ifrim , Daniel Tataru

We study theoretically the capillary-gravity waves created at the water-air interface by a small two-dimensional perturbation when a depth-dependent current is initially present in the fluid. Assuming linear wave theory, we derive a general…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Michael Benzaquen , Elie Raphael

We prove the existence and the linear stability of Cantor families of small amplitude time quasi-periodic standing water wave solutions - namely periodic and even in the space variable x - of a bi-dimensional ocean with finite depth under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Pietro Baldi , Massimiliano Berti , Emanuele Haus , Riccardo Montalto

The gravity water waves equations describe the evolution of the surface of an incompressible, irrotational fluid in the presence of gravity. The classical regularity threshold for the well-posedness of this system requires initial velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Albert Ai

We consider the gravity-capillary water waves equations for a bi-dimensional fluid with a periodic one-dimensional free surface. We prove a rigorous reduction of this system to Birkhoff normal form up to cubic degree. Due to the possible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Massimiliano Berti , Roberto Feola , Luca Franzoi

This paper presents the second-order perturbation theory of the Navier-Stokes equations for free surface flows, with the wave amplitude considered as the perturbation parameter. Gravity-capillary surface waves in incompressible viscous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-28 Arash Ghahraman , Gyula Bene

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 develop a time-dependent conformal method to study the effect of viscosity on steep surface waves. When the effect of surface tension is included, numerical solutions are found that contain highly oscillatory parasitic capillary ripples.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-14 Josh Shelton , Paul Milewski , Philippe H. Trinh

We consider the gravity-capillary water waves problem in a domain $\Omega_t \subset \mathbb{T} \times \mathbb{R}$ with substantial geometric features. Namely, we consider a variable bottom, smooth obstacles in the flow and a constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Gary Moon

We prove via explicitly constructed initial data that solutions to the gravity-capillary wave system in $\mathbb{R}^3$ representing a 2d air-water interface immediately fails to be $C^3$ with respect to the initial data if the initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-20 Robin Ming Chen , Jeremy L. Marzuola , Daniel Spirn , J. Douglas Wright

The last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of studies devoted to wave turbulence. Many deal with water waves, as modeling of ocean waves has historically motivated the development of weak turbulence theory, which adresses…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-09 Eric Falcon , Nicolas Mordant

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

Second-order tensor perturbations induced by primordial fluctuations play a crucial role in probing small-scale physics, but gauge dependence of their energy density has remained a fundamental challenge in cosmological perturbation theory.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Chen Yuan , Yizhou Lu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Lang Liu

This article is devoted to the Cauchy problem for the 2D gravity-capillary water waves in fluid domains with general bottoms. We prove that the Cauchy problem in Sobolev spaces is uniquely solvable for data $\frac{1}{4}$ derivatives less…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-04 Quang-Huy Nguyen

In this Letter we consider long capillary-gravity waves described by a fully nonlinear weakly dispersive model. First, using the phase space analysis methods we describe all possible types of localized travelling waves. Then, we especially…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Denys Dutykh , Aydar Assylbekuly , Dauren Zhakebayev

We study periodic, two-dimensional, gravity-capillary traveling wave solutions to a viscous shallow water system posed on an inclined plane. While thinking of the Reynolds and Bond numbers as fixed and finite, we vary the speed of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Noah Stevenson

By a bifurcation argument we prove that the capillary-gravity Whitham equation features asymmetrical periodic travelling wave solution of arbitrarily small amplitude. Such waves exist only in the weak surface tension regime…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Ola Mæhlen , Douglas Svensson Seth

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

We present a numerical study of spatially quasi-periodic traveling waves on the surface of an ideal fluid of infinite depth. This is a generalization of the classic Wilton ripple problem to the case when the ratio of wave numbers satisfying…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jon Wilkening , Xinyu Zhao

We present a numerical study of three-dimensional gravity-capillary standing waves by using cubic and quintic truncated Hamiltonian formulations and the Craig-Sulem expansion of the Dirichlet-Neumann operator (DNO). The resulting models are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 Xin Guan