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We consider a two-dimensional, two-layer, incompressible, steady flow, with vorticity which is constant in each layer, in an infinite channel with rigid walls. The velocity is continuous across the interface, there is no surface tension or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Karsten Matthies , Jonathan Sewell , Miles H. Wheeler

Fully localised three-dimensional solitary waves are steady water waves which are evanescent in every horizontal direction. This paper presents an existence theory for such waves under the assumptions that the relative vorticity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Mark D. Groves , Erik Wahlén

It is demonstrated that a standard coupled-mode theory can successfully describe weakly-nonlinear gravity water waves in Bragg resonance with a periodic one-dimensional topography. Analytical solutions for gap solitons provided by this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-10-27 V. P. Ruban

Solitary waves in a general nonlinear lattice are discussed, employing as a model the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a spatially periodic nonlinear coefficient. An asymptotic theory is developed for long solitary waves, that span a…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-05 Guenbo Hwang , T. R. Akylas , Jianke Yang

The study of the Euler equations in flows with constant vorticity has piqued the curiosity of a considerable number of researchers over the years. Much research has been conducted on this subject under the assumption of steady flow. In this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-26 Eduardo M. Castro , Marcelo V. Flamarion , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr

We obtain a general solution for the water waves resulting from a general, time-dependent surface pressure distribution, in the presence of a shear current of uniform vorticity beneath the surface, in three dimensions. Linearized governing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-10 Yan Li , Simen Å. Ellingsen

The interaction of a solitary wave and a slowly varying mean background or flow for the Serre-Green-Naghdi (SGN) equations is studied using Whitham modulation theory. The exact form of the three SGN-Whitham modulation equations -- two for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Thibault Congy , Gennady El , Sergey Gavrilyuk , Mark Hoefer , Keh-Ming Shyue

We consider the focusing $L^2$-supercritical Schr\"odinger equation in the exterior of a smooth, compact, strictly convex obstacle. We construct a solution behaving asymptotically as a solitary waves on $R^3$, as large time. When the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Oussama Landoulsi

We construct three-dimensional families of small-amplitude gravity-driven rotational steady water waves on finite depth. The solutions contain counter-currents and multiple crests in each minimal period. Each such wave generically is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Mats Ehrnström , Erik Wahlén

In this experimental study, we investigate the interaction of gravity-capillary solitary waves generated by two surface pressure sources moving side by side at constant speed. The nonlinear response of a water surface to a single source…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-13 Naeem Masnadi , James H. Duncan

We present the derivation of generic equations describing the long gravity waves in incompressible fluid with decaying effect. We show that in this theory the only restriction to the surface deviation is connected with the stability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-26 Vladimir I. Kruglov

We consider the gravity water waves system in the case of a one dimensional interface, for sufficiently smooth and localized initial data, and prove global existence of small solutions. This improves the almost global existence result of Wu…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Alexandru D. Ionescu , Fabio Pusateri

Using a matched asymptotic expansion we analyze the two-dimensional, near- critical reflection of a weakly nonlinear, internal gravity wave from a sloping boundary in a uniformly stratified fluid. Taking a distinguished limit in which the…

patt-sol · Physics 2017-05-17 T. Dauxois , W. R. Young

This note emphasizes the role of multi-scale wave structures and junction conditions in many fields of physics, from the dynamics of fluids with non-convex equations of state to the study of gravitational singularities and bouncing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-25 Philippe G. LeFloch

An experimental validation of theoretical models of transmission of regular water waves by large arrays of floating disks is presented. The experiments are conducted in a wave basin. The models are based on combined potential-flow and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-18 Luke Bennetts , Timothy Williams

We analyze gravitational waves propagating in an isotropic cosmic fluid endowed with a bulk viscosity $\zeta$ and a shear viscosity $\eta$, assuming these coefficients to vary with fluid density $\rho$ as $\rho^\lambda$, with $\lambda=1/2$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-16 Iver Brevik , Shin'ichi Nojiri

In this paper, we investigate the spectral stability of periodic traveling waves in the two dimensional gravity-capillary water wave problem. We derive a stability criterion based on an index function, whose sign determines the spectral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Changzhen Sun , Erik Wahlén

We study nonlinear wave phenomena in self-gravitating fluid systems, with a particular emphasis on applications to molecular clouds. This paper presents analytical results for one spatial dimension. We show that a large class of physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Fred C. Adams , Marco Fatuzzo , Richard Watkins

We prove the existence of pure capillary solitary waves for the 2D finite-depth Euler equations with nonzero constant vorticity. In the irrotational case, nonexistence of solitary waves was established by Ifrim--Pineau--Tataru--Taylor, so…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ting-Yang Hsiao , Zhengjun Liang , Giang To , Ye Zhang

We study two-dimensional periodic capillary-gravity water waves propagating at the free surface of water in a flow with arbitrary, prescribed vorticity over a flat bed. Using conformal mappings and a new Babenko-type reformulation of…

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