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The mechanisms by which media inhomogeneity affects the three wave parametric instability (PI), including the wave number mismatch and the parameter gradients, are investigated using an approach based on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Taotao Zhou , Nong Xiang , Chunyun Gan , Tianyang Xia

In this work, we numerically study the higher-ordered/extended Boussinesq system describing the propagation of water-waves over flat topography. A reformulation of the same order of precision that avoids the calculation of high order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Ralph Lteif , Stéphane Gerbi

We develop a theory of turbulence of weak random gravity waves on surface of deep water in which the main nonlinear process at high-frequency part of the spectrum is a nonlocal interaction with a strong low-frequency component. The latter…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-05 A. O. Korotkevich , S. V. Nazarenko , Y. Pan , J. Shatah

Wave equations containing spatial derivatives which are higher than second order arise naturally in the context of condensed matter systems. The solutions of such equations contain more than two modes and consequently, the range of possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Sam Patrick , Silke Weinfurtner

Multiple scattering of wave in strong heterogeneity can cause resonance-like wave anomaly where the signal exhibits low-frequency, high intensity, and slowly propagating wave packet velocity. For example, long period event in volcanic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Yinbin Liu

The theory of integrable systems of Hamiltonian PDEs and their near-integrable deformations is used to study evolution equations resulting from vertical-averages of the Euler system for two-layer stratified flows in an infinite 2D channel.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 R. Camassa , G. Falqui , G. Ortenzi

The Boussinesq $abcd$ system is a 4-parameter set of equations posed in $\mathbb{R}_t \times \mathbb{R}_x$, originally derived by Bona, Chen and Saut as first order 2-wave approximations of the incompressible and irrotational, two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Chulkwang Kwak , Claudio Muñoz , Felipe Poblete , Juan C. Pozo

The present article is the third part of a series of papers devoted to the shallow water wave modelling. In this part, we investigate the derivation of some long wave models on a deformed sphere. We propose first a suitable for our purposes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Gayaz Khakimzyanov , Denys Dutykh , Zinaida Fedotova

We consider the wave equation for sound in a moving fluid with a fourth-order anomalous dispersion relation. The velocity of the fluid is a linear function of position, giving two points in the flow where the fluid velocity matches the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-29 T. G. Philbin

We study the propagation of low frequency shallow water waves on a one dimensional flow of varying depth. When taking into account dispersive effects, the linear propagation of long wavelength modes on uneven bottoms excites new solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-30 Antonin Coutant , Silke Weinfurtner

Since Berry's pioneering 1984 work, the separation of geometric and dynamic contributions in the {\it phase} of an evolving wave has become fundamental in physics, underpinning diverse phenomena in quantum mechanics, optics, and condensed…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-10 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Zeyu Kuang , Stefan Rotter

A viscous instability in shearing laminar axisymmetric hydrodynamic flows around a gravitating center is described. In the linearized hydrodynamic equations written in the Boussinesq approximation with microscopic molecular transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Nikolai Shakura , Konstantin Postnov

This article explores the stability of stratified Couette flow in the viscous $3d$ Boussinesq equations. In this system, mixing effects arise from the shearing background, and gravity acts as a restoring force leading to dispersive internal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Michele Coti Zelati , Augusto Del Zotto , Klaus Widmayer

The numerical approximation of some Boussinesq systems in two spatial dimensions is here considered. The differential systems under study are proposed as asymptotic models for the propagation of waves along the interface of two layers of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 A. Durán

We report the quantitative experimental observation of the weak inertial-wave turbulence regime of rotating turbulence. We produce a statistically steady homogeneous turbulent flow that consists of nonlinearly interacting inertial waves,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-26 Eduardo Monsalve , Maxime Brunet , Basile Gallet , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

In this paper a three-parameter family of Boussinesq systems is studied. The systems have been proposed as models of the propagation of long internal waves along the interface of a two-layer system of fluids with rigid-lid condition for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-27 V. A. Dougalis , A. Duran , L. Saridaki

Inertia-gravity waves (IGWs) play an essential role in the terrestrial atmospheric dynamics as they can lead to energy and momentum flux when propagating upwards. An open question is to which extent IGWs contribute to the total energy and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Costanza Rodda , Uwe Harlander

We numerically study the scattering coefficients of linear water waves on stationary flows above a localized obstacle. We compare the scattering on trans- and subcritical flows, and then focus on the latter which have been used in recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 Scott Robertson , Florent Michel , Renaud Parentani

We study the behavior of shallow water waves over periodically-varying bathymetry, based on the first-order hyperbolic Saint-Venant equations. Although solutions of this system are known to generally exhibit wave breaking, numerical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-06 David I. Ketcheson , Lajos Lóczi , Giovanni Russo

In turbulent flows subject to strong background rotation, the advective mechanisms of turbulence are superseded by the propagation of inertial waves, as the effects of rotation become dominant. While this mechanism has been identified…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-19 J. A. Brons , P. J. Thomas , A. Potherat