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We study long surface and internal ring waves propagating in a stratified fluid over a parallel shear flow. The far-field modal and amplitude equations for the ring waves are presented in dimensional form. We re-derive them from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-30 Curtis Hooper , Karima Khusnutdinova , Roger Grimshaw

We study the propagation of surface waves across structured surfaces with random, localized inhomogeneities. A discrete analogue of Gurtin-Murdoch model is employed and surface elasticity, in contrast to bulk elasticity, is captured by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Josselin Garnier , Basant Lal Sharma

What do the ocean surface and a swaying flag have in common? Both are deformable surfaces exhibiting chaotic motion when exposed to turbulent flows. Whether such motion is primarily driven by flow turbulence or by nonlinear dynamics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-25 Giulio Foggi Rota , Andrea Mazzino , Marco Edoardo Rosti

We study the propagation of monochromatic surface waves on a turbulent flow. The flow is generated in a layer of liquid metal by an electromagnetic forcing. This forcing creates a quasi two-dimensional (2D) turbulence with strong vertical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-19 Pablo Gutiérrez , Sébastien Aumaitre

Nonlinear wave-induced perturbations are discussed within the framework of the second-order theory. Due to the slow attenuation of the long perturbations with depth, they modulate motions beneath surface waves down to the bottom and can…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 Alexey V. Slunyaev , Anna V. Kokorina

The reflection and transmission amplitudes of waves in disordered multimode waveguides are studied by means of numerical simulations based on the invariant embedding equations. In particular, we analyze the influence of surface-type…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Sanchez-Gil , V. Freilikher , A. A. Maradudin , I. Yurkevich

The sea surface height (SSH) field measured by Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission's wide-swath altimeter is analyzed with a focus on submesoscale features. Along-track wavenumber spectra of SSH variance are estimated for the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Xihan Zhang , Jörn Callies

The problem of scattering of linear internal waves from small compact sea bottom inhomogeneities is considered from the point of view of mode-to-mode scattering. A simple formula for modal conversion coefficients, quantifying the amount of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Zakharenko

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission provides two-dimensional sea surface height (SSH) maps at unprecedented resolution, but its signal is a combination of balanced meso- and submesoscale turbulence, unbalanced internal…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Jack William Skinner , Jörn Callies , Albion Lawrence , Xihan Zhang

Effects of wave-wave interactions on ocean swell are studied. Results of extensive simulations of swell evolution within the duration-limited setup for the kinetic Hasselmann equation at long times up to $10^6$ seconds are presented. Basic…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Sergei I. Badulin , Vladimir E. Zakharov

The deflection of waves by combining the effects of time modulation with anisotropy has been recently proposed in the context of electromagnetism. In this work, we characterise this phenomenon, called temporal aiming, for water waves using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Magdalini Koukouraki , Philippe Petitjeans , Agnès Maurel , Vincent Pagneux

Over the years, the directional distribution functions of wind-generated wave field have been assumed to be unimodal. While details of various functional forms differ, these directional models suggest that waves of all spectral components…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 Paul A. Hwang , David W. Wang , W. Erick Rogers , Robert N. Swift , James Yungel , William B. Krabill

We consider the propagation of surface water waves in a straight planar channel perturbed at the bottom by several thin curved tunnels and wells. We propose a method to construct non reflecting underwater topographies of this type at an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Lucas Chesnel , Sergei A. Nazarov , Jari Taskinen

Latent heat flux is a primary pathway for ocean-atmosphere exchange of heat and moisture, yet the influence of sea surface temperature variability at fine scales ($\leq$ 100 km) on latent heat flux variability, particularly over the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Lucie Reymondet , Lia Siegelman , Luc Lenain

A nested large-scale wave model that covers most of the Atlantic Ocean and focuses on generating accurate swell conditions for Ireland is presented and validated over the two years 2016 and 2017. The impact of currents is studied using the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Clement Calvino , Tomasz Dabrowski , Frederic Dias

We introduce the concept of a metasurface system able to route space wave via surface waves. This concept may be used to laterally shift or modulate the beam width of scattered waves. We propose two corresponding synthesis techniques, one…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-19 Karim Achouri , Christophe Caloz

The mathematical models and numerical simulations reported here are motivated by satellite observations of horizontal gradients of sea surface temperature and salinity that are closely coordinated with the slowly varying envelope of the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Darryl D. Holm , Ruiao Hu , Oliver D. Street

Underwater observatories have recently emerged as an efficient solution for marine biodiversity monitoring. The primary objective of this work is to enable efficient and cost-effective data muling from underwater sensors by investigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Mohamed Nennouche , Mohammad-Ali Khalighi , Alexis Alfredo Dowhuszko , Djamal Merad

Direct phase-resolved simulations are performed to investigate the propagation and scattering of nonlinear ocean waves in fragmented sea ice. The numerical model solves the full time-dependent equations for nonlinear potential flow coupled…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-30 Boyang Xu , Philippe Guyenne

Effective field theory descriptions of surface waves on flowing fluids have tended to assume that the flow is irrotational, but this assumption is often impractical due to boundary layer friction and flow recirculation. Here we develop an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-26 Alessia Biondi , Scott Robertson , Germain Rousseaux