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This paper establishes a fundamental and surprising phenomenon in the theory of stochastic wave equations: the restoration of the unique continuation property (UCP) across characteristic hypersurfaces, a property that is known to fail…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Qi Lü , Zhonghua Liao

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

In this paper, we prove a uniqueness theorem for a system of semilinear wave equations satisfying the null condition in $\mathbb{R}^{1+3}$. Suppose that two global solutions with $C_c^\infty$ initial data have equal initial data outside a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Dongxiao Yu

The two-dimensional free-boundary problem describing steady gravity waves with vorticity on water of finite depth is considered. It is proved that no small-amplitude waves are supported by a horizontal shear flow whose free surface is still…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolay Kuznetsov

We study the formation of steady waves in two-dimensional fluids under a current with mean velocity $c$ flowing over a periodic bottom. Using a formulation based on the Dirichlet-Neumann operator, we establish the unique continuation of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Walter Craig , Carlos García-Azpeitia

Consider a viscous fluid of finite depth below the air. In the absence of the surface tension effect at the air-fluid interface, the long time behavior of a free surface with small amplitude has been an intriguing question since the work of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-24 Yan Guo , Ian Tice

Fully localised solitary waves are travelling-wave solutions of the three-dimensional gravity-capillary water wave problem which decay to zero in every horizontal spatial direction. Their existence for water of finite depth has recently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Boris Buffoni , Mark D. Groves , Erik Wahlén

The magnetohydrodynamic equations system for heavy fluid over an arbitrary surface in shallow water approximation is studied in the present paper. It is shown that simple wave solutions exist only for underlying surfaces that are slopes of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 Kirill Karelsky , Arakel Petrosyan , Stepan Tarasevich

We study the propagation properties of the solutions of the finite-difference space semi-discrete wave equation on an uniform grid of the whole Euclidean space. We provide a construction of high frequency wave packets that propagate along…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-03 Aurora-Mihaela Marica , Enrique Zuazua

We examine an inverse backscattering property of wave motion imposed by an obstacle. We show that if the wave propagator decays super-exponentially along the back-scattered geodesics, then the involved scatterer must be trivial. In…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-01-21 Lung-Hui Chen

We study the vanishing dissipation limit of the three-dimensional (3D) compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations to the corresponding 3D full Euler equations. Our results are twofold. First, we prove that the 3D compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Lin-An Li , Dehua Wang , Yi Wang

For the problem describing steady, gravity waves with vorticity on a two-dimensional, unidirectional flow of finite depth the following results are obtained. (i) Bounds for the free-surface profile and for Bernoulli's constant. (ii) If only…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolay Kuznetsov , Evgeniy Lokharu

The KP-I equation \[ (u_t-2uu_x+\tfrac{1}{2}(\beta-\tfrac{1}{3})u_{xxx})_x -u_{yy}=0 \] arises as a weakly nonlinear model equation for gravity-capillary waves with strong surface tension (Bond number $\beta>1/3$). This equation admits ---…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Mats Ehrnström , Mark Groves

We study the flow of water waves over bathymetry that varies periodically along one direction. We derive a linearized, homogenized model and show that the periodic bathymetry induces an effective dispersion, distinct from the dispersion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Manuel Quezada de Luna , David I. Ketcheson

This study analyzes steady periodic hydroelastic waves propagating on the water surface of finite depth beneath nonlinear elastic membranes. Unlike previous work \cite{BaldiT,BaldiT1,Toland,Toland1}, our formulation accommodates rotational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Yong Zhang

We present an existence and stability theory for gravity-capillary solitary waves with constant vorticity on the surface of a body of water of finite depth. Exploiting a rotational version of the classical variational principle, we prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-25 M. D. Groves , E. Wahlén

We consider a unique continuation problem for the wave equation given data in a volumetric subset of the space time domain. In the absence of data on the lateral boundary of the space-time cylinder we prove that the solution can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Erik Burman , Lauri Oksanen , Janosch Preuss , Ziyao Zhao

Relying on the analysis of characteristics, we prove the uniqueness of conservative solutions to the variational wave equation $u_{tt}-c(u) (c(u)u_x)_x=0$. Given a solution $u(t,x)$, even if the wave speed $c(u)$ is only H\"older continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Alberto Bressan , Geng Chen , Qingtian Zhang

By introducing new weighted vector fields as multipliers, we derive quantitative pointwise estimates for solutions of defocusing semilinear wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^{1+3}$ with pure power nonlinearity for all $1<p\leq 2$. Consequently,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Dongyi Wei , Shiwu Yang

An exact solution of the Einstein field equations is found under the assumption of spherically symmetry and the existence of one-parameter group of homothetic motions. This solution has a singularity at $r = 0$, and has non-vanishing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-23 Ragab M. Gad , M. M. Hassan