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We prove the existence of pure capillary solitary waves for the 2D finite-depth Euler equations with nonzero constant vorticity. In the irrotational case, nonexistence of solitary waves was established by Ifrim--Pineau--Tataru--Taylor, so…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ting-Yang Hsiao , Zhengjun Liang , Giang To , Ye Zhang

We show existence of small solitary and periodic traveling-wave solutions in Sobolev spaces ${\mathrm{H}^s}$, ${ s > 0 }$, to a class of nonlinear, dispersive evolution equations of the form \begin{equation*} u_t + \left(Lu+ n(u)\right)_x =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Fredrik Hildrum

This paper establishes the conditional orbital stability of fully localized solitary waves for the three-dimensional capillary-gravity water wave problem in finite depth under strong surface tension. The waves, constructed via a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Changfeng Gui , Shanfa Lai , Yong Liu , Juncheng Wei , Wen Yang

In this paper we show that the hydrodynamic problem for three-dimensional water waves with strong surface-tension effects admits a fully localised solitary wave which decays to the undisturbed state of the water in every horizontal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Boris Buffoni , Mark D. Groves , Shu-Ming Sun , Erik Wahlén

A unidirectional reduction of the deep-water surface gravity wave problem is derived in physical space using real variables. By employing a near-identity canonical transformation, cubic interactions are eliminated from the Hamiltonian, with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Päivo Simson

The interaction of a solitary wave and a slowly varying mean background or flow for the Serre-Green-Naghdi (SGN) equations is studied using Whitham modulation theory. The exact form of the three SGN-Whitham modulation equations -- two for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Thibault Congy , Gennady El , Sergey Gavrilyuk , Mark Hoefer , Keh-Ming Shyue

Solitons and cavitons (localized solutions with singularities) for the nonlocal Whitham equations are studied. The equation of a fourth order with a parameter in front of fourth derivative for traveling waves is reduced to a reversible…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-28 N. Kulagin , L. Lerman , A. Malkin

This work studies the rotation-generalized Benjamin-Ono equation which is derived from the theory of weakly nonlinear long surface and internal waves in deep water under the presence of rotation. It is shown that the solitary-wave solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Amin Esfahani , Steven Levandosky

We study here the existence of solitary wave solutions of a generalized two-component Camassa-Holm system. In addition to those smooth solitary-wave solutions, we show that there are solitary waves with singularities: peaked and cusped…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Robin Ming Chen , Yue Liu , Zhijun Qiao

We consider a hydrodynamic-type system of balance equations which is closed by the dynamic equation of state taking into account the effects of spatial nonlocality. Symmetry and local conservation laws of this system are studied. A system…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-08-01 Vsevolod Vladimirov , Czesław Maczka , Artur Sergyeyev , Sergiy Skurativskyi

This paper considers two-dimensional steady solitary waves with constant vorticity propagating under the influence of gravity over an impermeable flat bed. Unlike in previous works on solitary waves, we allow for both internal stagnation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Susanna V. Haziot , Miles. H. Wheeler

A fundamental question in the study of water waves is the existence and stability of solitary waves. Solitary waves have been proved to exist and have been studied in many interesting situations, and often arise from the balance of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Mihaela Ifrim , Daniel Tataru

We consider the global bifurcation problem for spatially periodic traveling waves for two-dimensional gravity-capillary vortex sheets. The two fluids have arbitrary constant, non-negative densities (not both zero), the gravity parameter can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-30 David M. Ambrose , Walter A. Strauss , J. Douglas Wright

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 consider the capillary-gravity water-waves problem of finite depth with a flat bottom of one or two horizontal dimensions. We derive the modulation equations of leading and next-to-leading order in the hyperbolic scaling for three weakly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Ioannis Giannoulis

The Whitham equation was proposed as a model for surface water waves that combines the quadratic flux nonlinearity $f(u) = \tfrac{1}{2}u^2$ of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and the full linear dispersion relation $\Omega(k) = \sqrt{k\tanh…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-01 Adam L. Binswanger , Mark A. Hoefer , Boaz Ilan , Patrick Sprenger

We consider two-dimensional inviscid irrotational flow in a two layer fluid under the effects of gravity and surface tension. The upper fluid is bounded above by a rigid lid, and the lower fluid is bounded below by a rigid bottom. We use a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Dag Nilsson

This paper considers the existence and stability properties of two-dimensional solitary waves traversing an infinitely deep body of water. We assume that above the water is vacuum, and that the waves are acted upon by gravity with surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Hung Le

This study investigates nonlinear gravity waves in the compressible atmosphere from the Earth's surface to the deep atmosphere. These waves are effectively described by Grimshaw's dissipative modulation equations which provide the basis for…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-04-27 Mark Schlutow , Erik Wahlén

We present a large-amplitude existence theory for two-dimensional solitary waves propagating through a two layer body of water. The domain of the fluid is bounded below by an impermeable flat ocean floor and above by a free boundary at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Daniel Sinambela