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In this paper we study the motion of an internal water wave and an internal wave in a porous medium. For these problems we establish that, if the free boundary and, in the case of the Euler equations, also the tangential velocity at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Zhiyuan Geng , Rafael Granero-Belinchón

This paper presents a new numerical model based on the highly nonlinear potential flow theory for simulating the propagation of water waves in variable depth. A new set of equations for estimating the surface vertical velocity is derived…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-02 Jinghua Wang

For ideal fluid flow with zero surface tension and gravity, it remains unknown whether local singularities on the free surface can develop in well-posed initial value problems with smooth initial data. This is so despite great advances over…

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In this paper, we consider 2D incompressible Euler equations in an unbounded domain with a free surface and a fixed bottom at finite depth. The fluid motion is under the influence of gravity and surface tension. We construct initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Yuanpeng Tu

The potential flow of two-dimensional ideal incompressible fluid with a free surface is studied. Using the theory of conformal mappings and Hamiltonian formalism allows us to derive exact equations of surface evolution. Simple form of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-12 V. E. Zakharov , A. I. Dyachenko

Numerical simulation of compressible fluid flows is performed using the Euler equations. They include the scalar advection equation for the density, the vector advection equation for the velocity and a given pressure dependence on the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Petr N. Vabishchevich

We consider steady solutions to the incompressible Euler equations in a two-dimensional channel with rigid walls. The flow consists of two periodic layers of constant vorticity separated by an unknown interface. Using global bifurcation…

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We present a semi-Lagrangian characteristic mapping method for the incompressible Euler equations on a rotating sphere. The numerical method uses a spatio-temporal discretization of the inverse flow map generated by the Eulerian velocity as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Seth Taylor , Jean-Christophe Nave

In this paper we mainly investigate the traveling wave solution of the two dimensional Euler equations with gravity at the free surface over a flat bed. We assume that the free surface is almost periodic in the horizontal direction. Using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Wei Luo , Zhaoyang Yin

A novel semi-Lagrangian method is introduced to solve numerically the Euler equation for ideal incompressible flow in arbitrary space dimension. It exploits the time-analyticity of fluid particle trajectories and requires, in principle,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 O. Podvigina , V. Zheligovsky , U. Frisch

We consider a two-dimensional, two-layer, incompressible, steady flow, with vorticity which is constant in each layer, in an infinite channel with rigid walls. The velocity is continuous across the interface, there is no surface tension or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Karsten Matthies , Jonathan Sewell , Miles H. Wheeler

We study the evolution of a self-gravitating compressible fluid in spherical symmetry and we prove the existence of weak solutions with bounded variation for the Einstein-Euler equations of general relativity. We formulate the initial value…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-17 Annegret Y. Burtscher , Philippe G. LeFloch

This paper is devoted to the proof of a well-posedness result for the gravity water waves equations, in arbitrary dimension and in fluid domains with general bottoms, when the initial velocity field is not necessarily Lipschitz. Moreover,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-17 Thomas Alazard , Nicolas Burq , Claude Zuily

An iterative solution method for fully nonlinear boundary value problems governing self-similar flows with a free boundary is presented. Specifically, the method is developed for application to water entry problems, which can be studied…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-01-22 Alessandro Iafrati

Governing equations for two-dimensional inviscid free-surface flows with constant vorticity over arbitrary non-uniform bottom profile are presented in exact and compact form using conformal variables. An efficient and very accurate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-13 V. P. Ruban

A new Hamiltonian formulation for the fully nonlinear water-wave problem over variable bathymetry is derived, using an exact, vertical series expansion of the velocity potential, in conjunction with Luke's variational principle. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-14 Christos Papoutsellis , Gerassimos Athanassoulis

The hypothesis on complete integrability of equations describing the potential motion of incompressible ideal fluid with free surface in 2-D space in presence and absence of gravity was formulated by Dyachenko and Zakharov in 1994 [1].…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Vladimir Zakharov

We present a Lagrangian-Eulerian scheme to solve the shallow water equations in the case of spatially variable bottom geometry. Using a local curvilinear reference system anchored on the bottom surface, we develop an effective first-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Eduardo Abreu , Elena Bachini , John Perez , Mario Putti

We compute time-periodic and relative-periodic solutions of the free-surface Euler equations that take the form of overtaking collisions of unidirectional solitary waves of different amplitude on a periodic domain. As a starting guess, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-12 Jon Wilkening

We consider the two-dimensional water-wave problem with a general non-zero vorticity field in a fluid volume with a flat bed and a free surface. The nonlinear equations of motion for the chosen surface and volume variables are expressed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Delia Ionescu-Kruse , Rossen Ivanov