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The dynamics of solitary gravity-capillary water waves propagating on the surface of a three-dimensional fluid domain is studied numerically. In order to accurately compute complex time dependent solutions, we simplify the full potential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhan Wang , Paul A Milewski

The elastic deformation of a soft solid induced by capillary forces crucially relies on the excess stress inside the solid-liquid interface. While for a liquid-liquid interface this "surface stress" is strictly identical to the "surface…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Joost H. Weijs , Jacco H. Snoeijer , Bruno Andreotti

The goal of this monograph is to prove that any solution of the Cauchy problem for the capillarity-gravity water waves equations, in one space dimension, with periodic, even in space, initial data of small size $\epsilon$, is almost…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Massimiliano Berti , Jean-Marc Delort

This paper considers steady surface waves `riding' a Beltrami flow (a three-dimensional flow with parallel velocity and vorticity fields). It is demonstrated that the hydrodynamic problem can be formulated as two equations for two scalar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Mark D. Groves , J. Horn

The Westervelt equation describes the propagation of pressure waves in continuous nonlinear and, eventually, diffusive media. The classical framework of this equation corresponds to fluid dynamics theory. This work seeks to connect this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Mariano Caruso , Guillermo Rus , Juan Melchor

Capillary waves are a classical free-surface phenomenon in fluid mechanics, yet their behavior in chiral fluids remains largely unexplored. We show that odd viscosity breaks the reciprocity of capillary waves. Using linear theory together…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Holly du Plessis , Pedro Cosme , Hugo França , Maziyar Jalaal

A broad class of nonlinear acoustic wave models possess a Hamiltonian structure in their dissipation-free limit and a gradient flow structure for their dissipative dynamics. This structure may be exploited to design numerical methods which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 William Barham , Philip J. Morrison

We prove the local well-posedness for a nonlinear equation modeling the evolution of the free surface for waves of moderate amplitude in the shallow water regime.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-04 Nilay Duruk Mutlubas

We investigate the general plasma-vacuum interface problems for the ideal incompressible MHD equations with or without surface tension and prove their nonlinear local well-posedness in standard Sobolev spaces under either non-zero surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Sicheng Liu , Zhouping Xin

The dynamics of surface waves traveling along the boundary of a liquid medium are changed by the presence of floating plates and membranes, contributing to a number of important phenomena in a wide range of applications. Mathematically, if…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Travis Askham , Tristan Goodwill , Jeremy G Hoskins , Peter Nekrasov , Manas Rachh

We construct global curves of rotational traveling wave solutions to the $2D$ water wave equations on a compact domain. The real analytic interface is subject to surface tension, while gravitational effects are ignored. In contrast to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Gary Moon , Yilun Wu

We examine a two-media 2-dimensional fluid system consisting of a lower medium bounded underneath by a flatbed and an upper medium with a free surface with wind generated surface waves but considered bounded above by a lid by an assumption…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-06 Alan Compelli , Rossen Ivanov

The aim of this work is to investigate the interaction of gravity-capillary waves resonantly excited by two moving disturbances along the free surface. The problem is formulated using the full Euler equations and numerical computations are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-19 M. V. Flamarion , R. Ribeiro-Jr

Capillary condensation, which takes place in confined geometries, is the first-order vapor-to-liquid phase transition and is explained by the Kelvin equation, but the equations applicability for arbitrarily curved surface has been long…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 David V. Svintradze

In this Letter we regard nonlinear gravity-capillary waves with parameter of nonlinearity being $\varepsilon \sim 0.1 \div 0.25$. For this nonlinearity time scale separation does not occur and kinetic wave equation does not hold. An energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-17 Elena Tobisch

The main goal of this article is to study a Calder\'on type inverse problem for certain viscous nonlocal wave equations. We show that the partial Dirichlet to Neumann map uniquely determines on the one hand linear perturbations and on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Philipp Zimmermann

We consider a broad class of systems of nonlinear integro-differential equations posed on the real line that arise as Euler-Lagrange equations to energies involving nonlinear nonlocal interactions. Although these equations are not readily…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Bente Bakker , Arnd Scheel

The problem of propagating nonlinear acoustic waves is considered; the solution to which, both with and without damping, having been obtained to-date starting from the Navier-Stokes-Duhem equations together with the continuity and thermal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Markus Scholle

Slow flows of an ideal compressible fluid (gas) in the gravity field in the presence of two isentropic layers are considered, with a small difference of specific entropy between them. Assuming irrotational flows in each layer [that is ${\bf…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 V. P. Ruban

We formulate a model of the two-way interactions between surface gravity waves and ocean currents. The model couples the transport of wave action in the four-dimensional (horizontal) position--wavevector phase space with the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Jacques Vanneste , William R. Young