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We investigate experimentally the early stage of the generation of waves by a turbulent wind at the surface of a viscous liquid. The spatio-temporal structure of the surface deformation is analyzed by the optical method Free Surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-09 Anna Paquier , Frederic Moisy , Marc Rabaud

Large scale vortices could play a key role in the evolution of protoplanetary disks, particularly in the dead-zone where no turbulence associated with magnetic field is expected. Their possible formation by the subcritical baroclinic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 P. Barge , S. Richard , S. Le Dizes

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

In order to describe the dynamics of monochromatic surface waves in deep water, we derive a nonlinear and dispersive system of equations for the free surface elevation and the free surface velocity from the Euler equations in infinite…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-03-18 R. Kraenkel , H. Leblond , M. A. Manna

We study periodic, two-dimensional, gravity-capillary traveling wave solutions to a viscous shallow water system posed on an inclined plane. While thinking of the Reynolds and Bond numbers as fixed and finite, we vary the speed of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Noah Stevenson

A model for internal interfacial waves between two layers of fluid in the presence of current and variable bottom is studied in the flat-surface approximation. Fluids are assumed to be incompressible and inviscid. Another assumption is that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-08 Rossen Ivanov , Lyudmila Ivanova

We prove existence of a unique global-in-time weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations that govern the motion of a compressible viscous fluid with density-dependent viscosity in two-dimensional space. The initial velocity belongs to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Sagbo Marcel Zodji

We present a numerical investigation of three-dimensional, short-wavelength linear instabilities in Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) vortices in homogeneous and stratified environments. The base flow, generated using two-dimensional numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-28 H. M. Aravind , Manikandan Mathur , Thomas Dubos

Self-propelled particles can navigate complex environments, including viscous fluid interfaces with curved geometries. In this work, we study the emergent dynamics of a suspension of self-propelled particles confined to a stationary curved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-17 Yuzhu Chen , Vishal P. Patil , David Saintillan

In this paper, we study the inviscid limit of the free surface incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with or without surface tension. By delicate estimates, we prove the weak boundary layer of the velocity of the free surface Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Fuzhou Wu

A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation for the envelope of two-dimensional gravity-capillary waves propagating at the free surface of a vertically sheared current of constant vorticity is derived. In this paper we extend to gravity-capillary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-17 H. -C. Hsu , C. Kharif , M. Abid , Y. -Y. Chen

Euler's equations govern the behavior of gravity waves on the surface of an incompressible, inviscid, and irrotational fluid of arbitrary depth. We investigate the spectral stability of sufficiently small-amplitude, one-dimensional Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Ryan Creedon , Bernard Deconinck , Olga Trichtchenko

We study the long-time behaviour of axisymmetric solutions without swirl for the threedimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the whole space. Assuming that the initial vorticity is sufficiently localised, we compute explicitly the leading…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Quentin Vila

The search for solutions to the theory of weakly non-linear internal gravity wave turbulence is an active research topic. It is notably stimulated by the fact that this regime could drive fine-scale ocean dynamics for which the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-01 Nicolas Lanchon , Samuel Boury , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

The flow structures beneath waves have received significant attention from both theoretical and numerical perspectives. Most studies on this topic assume a flat bottom, leading to questions about the effects of variable bottom topography.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-30 L. G. Martins , M. V. Flamarion , R. Ribeiro-Jr

This study examines the stability of a flexible material interface between two fluids of the same viscosity in interaction with a free surface. When the layers are motionless, we provide evidence for the onset of a novel instability by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-05 Joris Labarbe

This is the second of two papers devoted to the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a half-space with point vortex initial data. A major difficulty stems from the interaction between the point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Chao Wang , Jingchao Yue , Zhifei Zhang

The two-dimensional free-boundary problem describing steady gravity waves with vorticity on water of finite depth is considered. Bounds for stream functions as well as free-surface profiles and the total head are obtained under the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolay Kuznetsov

Motivated by the analysis of the propagation of internal waves in a stratified ocean, we consider in this article the incompressible Euler equations with variable density in a flat strip, and we study the evolution of perturbations of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Benoit Desjardins , David Lannes , Jean-Claude Saut

In magnetized plasmas, a radial gradient of parallel velocity, where parallel refers to the direction of magnetic field, can destabilise an electrostatic mode called Parallel Velocity Gradient (PVG). The theory of PVG has been mainly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Jeanne Bourgeois , Maxime Lesur , Guillermo Cuerva Lazaro , Yusuke Kosuga