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In this paper, we study two-dimensional steady solitary gravity waves propagating along the surface of a fluid of finite depth. In particular, we can deal with general vorticity distributions and overhanging wave profiles. By conformal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Jifeng Chu , Zihao Wang , Yong Zhang

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 study wave-current interactions in two-dimensional water flows of constant vorticity over a flat bed. For large-amplitude periodic traveling waves that propagate at the water surface in the same direction as the underlying current…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Adrian Constantin , Walter Strauss , Eugen Varvaruca

We study the dynamic pressure in an irrotational solitary wave propagating at the surface of water over a flat bed, under the influence of gravity. We consider the nonlinear regime, that is, the case of waves of moderate to large amplitude.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-12 François Genoud

This paper studies the structural implications of constant vorticity for steady three-dimensional internal water waves. It is known that in many physical regimes, water waves beneath vacuum that have constant vorticity are necessarily two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Robin Ming Chen , Lili Fan , Samuel Walsh , Miles H. Wheeler

We consider two-dimensional solitary water waves on a shear flow with an arbitrary distribution of vorticity. Assuming that the horizontal velocity in the fluid never exceeds the wave speed and that the free surface lies everywhere above…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Miles H. Wheeler

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

In a recent paper, Hur & Wheeler [J. Differential Equations, 338:572-590, 2022] proved the existence of periodic steady water waves over an infinitely deep, two-dimensional and constant vorticity flow under the influence of gravity. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Francisco Gonçalves

We investigate within the framework of linear theory the behaviour of the total (hydrodynamic) pressure and of the dynamic pressure in a regular wave train which propagates at the surface of water with a flat bed in a flow with constant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-25 Adrian Constantin , Nicolas Gindrier , Otmar Scherzer

This is a study of singular solutions of the problem of traveling gravity water waves on flows with vorticity. We show that, for a certain class of vorticity functions, a sequence of regular waves converges to an extreme wave with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-04 Eugen Varvaruca

We prove local higher-order asymptotics for extreme water waves with vorticity near stagnation points. We obtain that the behaviour of solutions and their regularity depend substantially on the vorticity. In particular, we show that extreme…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Vladimir Kozlov , Evgeniy Lokharu

In this paper we construct small amplitude periodic internal waves traveling at the boundary region between two rotational and homogeneous fluids with different densities. Within a period, the waves we obtain have the property that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Anca-Voichita Matioc

Propagation of surface waves on a background shear flow with constant vorticity is studied and compared against the case when the background flow is uniform in depth. For a shear flow with the linear vertical profile, the dispersion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-15 Philippe Maïssa , Germain Rousseaux , Yury Stepanyants

While several articles have been written on Electrohydrodynamics (EHD) flows or flows with constant vorticity separately, little is known about the extent to which the combined effects of EHD and constant vorticity affect the flow. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-24 M. V. Flamarion , E. Kochurin , R. Ribeiro-Jr , N. Zubarev

A compact and efficient numerical method is described for studying plane flows of an ideal fluid with a smooth free boundary over a curved and nonuniformly moving bottom. Exact equations of motion in terms of the so-called conformal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-01 Victor P. Ruban

The modeling of surface pressure wave number spectra beneath a turbulent boundary layer is reviewed and reconsidered in terms of the vorticity in the flow. Using a solution based on the vorticity equation and Squires theorem, which was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-11 Stewart Glegg , Siddhartha Verma , Lyubov Denissova

We consider the stability of periodic gravity free-surface water waves traveling downstream at a constant speed over a shear flow of finite depth. In case the free surface is flat, a sharp criterion of linear instability is established for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-28 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Zhiwu Lin

The stability and transition in the bottom boundary layer under a solitary wave are analysed in the presence of finite amplitude disturbances. First, the receptivity of the boundary layer is investigated using a linear input-output…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Asim Önder , Philip Li-Fan Liu

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

Granular particles vibrated in a fluid have been found to exhibit self-organization with attractive and repulsive interactions between the particles. These interactions have been attributed to the steady streaming flow around oscillating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Florian Otto , Emmalee K. Riegler , Greg A. Voth