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We review recent advances regarding the long-time dynamics of space-periodic water waves, focusing on 1) bifurcation of quasi-periodic solutions, both standing and traveling; 2) long-time well-posedness results; 3) modulational instability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Massimiliano Berti

Micro-scale swimming robots have been envisaged for many medical applications such as targeted drug delivery, where the microrobot will be expected to navigate in a fluid through channels carrying a payload. Alternatively, in many cases,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-13 Jake Buzhardt , Phanindra Tallapragada

In Stokes flow, Purcell's scallop theorem forbids objects with time-reversible (reciprocal) swimming strokes from moving. In the presence of inertia, this restriction is eased and reciprocally deforming bodies can swim. A number of recent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-30 Nicholas J. Derr , Thomas Dombrowski , Chris H. Rycroft , Daphne Klotsa

The aim of this paper is to give a result concerning the stability properties of the solutions of magnetohydrodynamics equations at small but finite Reynolds numbers. These solutions are found using the alpha-effect: this method gives us…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-07 Ismaël Bouya

Self-propelled particles with hydrodynamic interactions (microswimmers) have previously been shown to produce long-range ordering phenomena. Many theoretical explanations for these collective phenomena are connected to instabilities in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-03 Yuzhou Qian , Peter R. Kramer , Patrick T. Underhill

Simple models are used throughout the physical sciences as a means of developing intuition, capturing phenomenology, and qualitatively reproducing observations. In studies of microswimming, simple force-dipole models are commonplace,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-08 Benjamin J. Walker , Kenta Ishimoto , Eamonn A. Gaffney

We consider a control system describing the interaction of water waves with a partially immersed rigid body constraint to move only in the vertical direction. The fluid is modeled by the shallow water equations. The control signal is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Pei Su , Marius Tucsnak

This paper focuses on the mechanism of propulsion of a Purcell swimmer whose segments are magnetized and react to an external magnetic field applied into the fluid. By an asymptotic analysis, we prove that it is possible to steer the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-08 François Alouges , Antonio Desimone , Laetitia Giraldi , Marta Zoppello

In this article, we study the stability and large time behavior for an multi-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamical system with a velocity damping term, for small perturbations near a steady-state of magnetic field fulfilling the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Hui Fang , Pingping Gui , Yanping Zhou

In this article, we analyse a stabilised equal-order finite element approximation for the Stokes equations on anisotropic meshes. In particular, we allow arbitrary anisotropies in a sub-domain, for example along the boundary of the domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Stefan Frei

Recently, a novel magnetic levitation phenomenon involving two magnetically equivalent neodymium permanent magnets has been reported. In this work, we propose that this system functions as a scaled-up analog of the Levitron. The key…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 A. Doff , R. M. Szmoski

We consider the gravity-capillary water waves equations of a 2D fluid with constant vorticity. By employing variational methods we prove the bifurcation of periodic traveling water waves -- which are steady in a moving frame -- for {\it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-12 T. Barbieri , M. Berti , A. Maspero , M. Mazzucchelli

We consider the inverse problem of the detection of a single body, immersed in a bounded container filled with a fluid which obeys the Stokes equations, from a single measurement of force and velocity on a portion of the boundary. We obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Andrea Ballerini

- In this paper, we focus on a variant of a 3-link magnetic microswimmer which consists of three rigid magnetized segments connected by two torsional springs. In particular, we assume that one of the springs is twisted so that the swimmer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Laetitia Giraldi , Pierre Lissy , Clément Moreau , Jean-Baptiste Pomet

We study certain significant properties of the equilibrium configurations of a rigid body subject to an undamped elastic restoring force, in the stream of a viscous liquid in an unbounded 3D domain. The motion of the coupled system is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Denis Bonheure , Giovanni P. Galdi , Filippo Gazzola

We study some properties of static spherically symmetric elastic bodies in general relativity using both analytical and numerical tools. The materials considered belong to the class of John elastic materials and reduce to perfect fluids…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Håkan Andréasson , Simone Calogero

We introduce an application of the Quasi-Gasdynamic method for a solution of ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations in the modeling of compressible conductive gas flows. A time-averaging procedure is applied for all physical parameters in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 M. V. Popov , T. G. Elizarova , S. D. Ustyugov

Various microswimmers move along circles rather than straight lines due to their swimming mechanisms, body shapes or hydrodynamic effects. Here, we adopt the concepts of stochastic thermodynamics to analyze circle swimmers confined in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-22 Zhiyu Cao , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

We consider steady surface waves in an infinitely deep two--dimensional ideal fluid with potential flow, focusing on high-amplitude waves near the steepest wave with a 120 degree corner at the crest. The stability of these solutions with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-25 Bernard Deconinck , Sergey A. Dyachenko , Anastassiya Semenova

We study the interaction of an incompressible fluid in two dimensions with an elastic structure yielding the moving boundary of the physical domain. The displacement of the structure is described by a linear viscoelastic beam equation. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Dominic Breit