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The Whitham equation is a nonlocal, nonlinear partial differential equation that models the temporal evolution of spatial profiles of surface displacement of water waves. However, many laboratory and field measurements record time series at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 John D. Carter , Diane Henderson , Panayotis Panayotaros

Wave localization is a ubiquitous phenomenon. It refers to situations that transmitted waves in scattering media are trapped in space and remain confined in the vicinity of the initial site until dissipated. Here we report a phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Zhen Ye , Haoran Hsu

This paper considers the propagation of shallow-water solitary and nonlinear periodic waves over a gradual slope with bottom friction in the framework of a variable-coefficient Korteweg-de Vries equation. We use the Whitham averaging…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-09-23 G. A. El , R. H. J. Grimshaw , A. M. Kamchatnov

We examine a two dimensional fluid system consisting of a lower medium bounded underneath by a flatbed and an upper medium with a free surface. The two media are separated by a free common interface. The gravity driven surface and internal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-07 Rossen Ivanov

This work studies the problem of predicting the loads and motions induced by wave systems on a ship in forward motion (seakeeping). Assuming that the hull is rigid, the motion of the ship is described by the equations of rigid body…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-11 Andrea Colagrossi

We study the possibility for the implementation of linear wave structures on discrete grids with various dimensions. The systems of the first order differential equations for the set of virtual functions, describing the wave propagation,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Sergey Dvornikov , Maxim Dvornikov

We study small-amplitude steady water waves with multiple critical layers. Those are rotational two-dimensional gravity-waves propagating over a perfect fluid of finite depth. It is found that arbitrarily many critical layers with cat's-eye…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mats Ehrnström , Joachim Escher , Gabriele Villari

The secular equation for surface acoustic waves propagating on an orthotropic incompressible half-space is derived in a direct manner, using the method of first integrals.

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-31 Michel Destrade

Paraxial ray tracing procedures have become widely accepted techniques for acoustic models in seismology and underwater acoustics. To date a generic form of these procedures including fluid motion and time dependence has not appeared in the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Bergman

We investigate the particle trajectories in a constant vorticity shallow water flow over a flat bed as periodic waves propagate on the water's free surface. Within the framework of small amplitude waves, we find the solutions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Delia Ionescu-Kruse

We describe here an experimental technique based on the acoustic scattering phenomenon allowing the direct probing of the vorticity field in a turbulent flow. Using time-frequency distributions, recently introduced in signal analysis…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Christophe Baudet , Olivier Michel , William J. Williams

Propagation of a localised wave function of a massive scalar field is investigated in its rest frame. The complete orthogonal Hermite-Gauss basis is presented, and the Gouy phase and Rayleigh scale notions are adapted. The leading and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-30 Qasem Exirifard , Ebrahim Karimi

This paper considers two-dimensional stratified water waves propagating under the force of gravity over an impermeable flat bed and with a free surface. We prove the existence of a global continuum of classical solutions that are periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-11 Samuel Walsh

In this work we study oceanic waves in a shallow water flow subject to strong wind forcing and rotation, and linearized around a inhomogeneous (non zonal) stationary profile. This extends the study \cite{CGPS}, where the profile was assumed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-22 Isabelle Gallagher , Thierry Paul , Laure Saint-Raymond

The system of hydrodynamic-type equations, derived by two-side distribution function for a stratified gas in gravity field is applied to a problem of ultrasound propagation and attenuation. The background state and linearized version of the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Solovchuk , S. B. Leble

We present and analyze a multiscale method for wave propagation problems, posed on spatial networks. By introducing a coarse scale, using a finite element space interpolated onto the network, we construct a discrete multiscale space using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Morgan Görtz , Per Ljung , Axel Målqvist

Wave scattering plays a central role for the modeling of complex wave propagation across all corners of science and engineering applications, including electromagnetic, acoustics, seismic and scattering physics. Wave control using time…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-05 Xingguo Huang , Li Han , Stewart Greenhalgh , Ru-Shan Wu

We investigate analytically the propagation of linear waves in a three-dimensional, nonmagnetic, isothermal atmosphere stratified in plane-parallel layers. The motivation is to study oscillations in the non-magnetic chromosphere and to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Bodo , W. Kalkofen , S. Massaglia , P. Rossi

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

We numerically evolve spherically symmetric solutions to the linear wave equation on some expanding Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetimes and study the respective asymptotics for large times. We find a quantitative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Flavio Rossetti , Alex Vañó-Viñuales