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We consider the two-dimensional problem for steady water waves with vorticity on water of finite depth. While neglecting the effects of surface tension we construct connected families of large amplitude periodic waves approaching the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Vladimir Kozlov , Evgeniy Lokharu

This paper considers two-dimensional steady solitary waves with constant vorticity propagating under the influence of gravity over an impermeable flat bed. Unlike in previous works on solitary waves, we allow for both internal stagnation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Susanna V. Haziot , Miles. H. Wheeler

The existence of periodic waves propagating downstream on the surface of a two-dimensional infinitely deep water under gravity is established for a general class of vorticities. When reformulated as an elliptic boundary value problem in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-02 Vera Mikyoung Hur

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

For two-dimensional steady pure-gravity water waves with a unidirectional flow of constant favourable vorticity, we prove an explicit bound on the amplitude of the wave, which decays to zero as the vorticity tends to infinity. Notably, our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Evgeniy Lokharu , Erik Wahlén , Jörg Weber

This paper studies the classical water wave problem with vorticity described by the Euler equations with a free surface under the influence of gravity over a flat bottom. Based on fundamental work \cite{ConstantinStrauss}, we first obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Guowei Dai , Yong Zhang

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 investigate the existence of solitary gravity waves traversing a two-dimensional body of water that is bounded below by a flat impenetrable ocean bed and above by a free surface of constant pressure. Our main interest is constructing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Adelaide Akers , Samuel Walsh

The two-dimensional free-boundary problem of steady periodic waves with vorticity is considered for water of finite depth. We investigate how flows with small-amplitude Stokes waves on the free surface bifurcate from a horizontal parallel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-06 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolay Kuznetsov

We consider the gravity-capillary water waves equations of a 2D fluid with constant vorticity. By employing variational methods we prove the bifurcation of periodic traveling water waves -- which are steady in a moving frame -- for {\it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-12 T. Barbieri , M. Berti , A. Maspero , M. Mazzucchelli

This paper investigates solitary water waves propagating along the surface of a two-dimensional dielectric fluid with constant vorticity in the presence of an external electric field. We formulate the system as a nonlinear free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Tingting Feng , Yong Zhang , Zhitao Zhang

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

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

In this article, we mainly investigate the properties of vertical velocity v for two dimensional steady water waves over a flat bed. Firstly we prove the existence of the inflection point for each streamline, then we find the behavior of v…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Yong Zhang , Fengquan Li , Fei Xu

The two-dimensional free-boundary problem describing steady gravity waves with vorticity on water of finite depth is considered. Under the assumption that the vorticity is a negative constant whose absolute value is sufficiently large, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Vladimir Kozlov , Nikolai G. Kuznetsov , Evgeniy Lokharu

We prove that no two-dimensional Stokes and solitary waves exist when the vorticity function is negative and the Bernoulli constant is greater than a certain critical value given explicitly. In particular, we obtain an upper bound $F…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Evgeniy Lokharu

We prove the nonexistence of two-dimensional solitary gravity water waves with subcritical wave speeds and an arbitrary distribution of vorticity. This is a longstanding open problem, and even in the irrotational case there are only partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Vladimir Kozlov , Evgeniy Lokharu , Miles H. Wheeler

This paper considers two-dimensional gravity solitary waves moving through a body of density stratified water lying below vacuum. The fluid domain is assumed to lie above an impenetrable flat ocean bed, while the interface between the water…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Robin Ming Chen , Samuel Walsh , Miles H. Wheeler

In this paper, we study two-dimensional traveling waves in finite-depth water that are acted upon solely by gravity. We prove that, for any supercritical Froude number (non-dimensionalized wave speed), there exists a continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Robin Ming Chen , Kristoffer Varholm , Samuel Walsh , Miles H. Wheeler

We study steady axisymmetric water waves with general vorticity and swirl, subject to the influence of surface tension. This can be formulated as an elliptic free boundary problem in terms of Stokes' stream function. A change of variables…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-14 André Erhardt , Erik Wahlén , Jörg Weber
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