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The linear stability of stratified two-phase flows in rectangular ducts is studied numerically. The linear stability analysis takes into account all possible infinitesimal three-dimensional disturbances and is carried out by solution of the…

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The shock wave instability induced when interacting with a small waviness on an interface was investigated analytically and numerically. The perturbation to the shock was phenomenologically treated assuming this as the consequence of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-29 A. Markhotok

An amplitude equation for an unstable mode in a collisionless plasma is derived from the dynamics on the unstable manifold of the equilibrium $F_0(v)$.\\ The mode eigenvalue arises from a simple zero of the dielectric $\epsilon_{{k}}(z)$;…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 John David Crawford

We investigate the spectral instability of a $2\pi/\kappa$ periodic Stokes wave of sufficiently small amplitude, traveling in water of unit depth, under gravity. Numerical evidence suggests instability whenever the unperturbed wave is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Zhao Yang

We study the limiting behavior of large-amplitude standing waves on deep water using high-resolution numerical simulations in double and quadruple precision. While periodic traveling waves approach Stokes's sharply crested extreme wave in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-27 Jon Wilkening

In this paper, we establish the existence of Stokes waves with piecewise smooth vorticity in a two-dimensional, infinitely deep fluid domain. These waves represent traveling water waves propagating over sheared currents in a semi-infinite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Changfeng Gui , Jun Wang , Wen Yang , Yong Zhang

We examine the spectral stability and instability of periodic traveling waves for regularized long-wave models. Examples include the regularized Boussinesq, Benney--Luke, and Benjamin--Bona--Mahony equations. Of particular interest is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Jared C. Bronski , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Samuel Lee Wester

In this paper, we investigate the instability of the spherical travelling wave solutions for the Transport-Stokes system in $\mathbb{R}^3$. First, a classical scaling argument ensures instability among all probability measures for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Matthieu Bonnivard , Amina Mecherbet

The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of surface waves on shallow water that combines the unidirectional linear dispersion relation of the Euler equations with a weakly nonlinear approximation based on the KdV equation. We show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 John D. Carter , Marc Francius , Christian Kharif , Henrik Kalisch , Malek Abid

Linear stability of a plane shock waves in ultrarelativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics is investigated. The properties of the amplitudes of perturbations of physical quantities are studied depending on the components of the wave vector of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-21 Aleksandr Kovalenko

We consider Stokes water waves on the vorticity flow in a two-dimensional channel of finite depth. In the paper "V.Kozlov, On first subharmonic bifurcations in a branch of Stokes waves, JDE, 2024," it was proved existence of subharmonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Vladimir Kozlov

Shockwaves provide a useful and rewarding route to the nonequilibrium properties of simple fluids far from equilibrium. For simplicity, we study a strong shockwave in a dense two-dimensional fluid. Here, our study of nonlinear transport…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-24 Wm. G. Hoover , Carol G. Hoover

In this paper we investigate the qualitative behaviour of the pressure function beneath an extreme Stokes wave over infinite depth. The presence of a stagnation point at the wave-crest of an extreme Stokes wave introduces a number of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Tony Lyons

We investigate some unstable behavior of the interface given by two incompressible fluids of different densities evolving by the regular Stokes law with gravity force. In the unstable scenario, where the denser fluid lies above the lighter…

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We explore the near-resonant interaction of inertial waves with geostrophic modes in rotating fluids via numerical and theoretical analysis. When a single inertial wave is imposed, we find that some geostrophic modes are unstable above a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Thomas Le Reun , Basile Gallet , Benjamin Favier , Michael Le Bars

The Stokes wave problem in a constant vorticity flow is formulated via a conformal mapping as a modified Babenko equation. The associated linearized operator is self-adjoint, whereby efficiently solved by the Newton-conjugate gradient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-12 Sergey A. Dyachenko , Vera Mikyoung Hur

We prove stability bounds for Stokes-like virtual element spaces in two and three dimensions. Such bounds are also instrumental in deriving optimal interpolation estimates. Furthermore, we develop some numerical tests in order to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-07 L. Beirão da Veiga , L. Mascotto , J. Meng

We consider a family of Stokes waves on vorticity flow parameterized by a parameter. For large value of the parameter the Stokes waves approach the Stokes extreme wave. We prove that there are infinitely many subharmonic bifurcation points…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Vladimir Kozlov

We investigate the Benjamin-Feir (or modulational) instability of Stokes waves, i.e., small-amplitude, one-dimensional periodic gravity waves of permanent form and constant velocity, in water of finite and infinite depth. We develop a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-22 Ryan Creedon , Bernard Deconinck

In this paper, we construct growing modes of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations about generic stationary shear flows of the boundary layer type in a regime of sufficiently large Reynolds number: $R \to \infty$. Notably, the shear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Emmanuel Grenier , Yan Guo , Toan T. Nguyen