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Euler's equations govern the behavior of gravity waves on the surface of an incompressible, inviscid, and irrotational fluid of arbitrary depth. We investigate the spectral stability of sufficiently small-amplitude, one-dimensional Stokes…

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We study modulational stability and instability in the Whitham equation, combining the dispersion relation of water waves and a nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, and modified to permit the effects of surface tension and constant…

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We generalize the periodic Evans function approach recently used to study the spectral stability of Stokes wave and gravity-capillary (including Wilton ripples) in water of finite depth to study spectral stability of Stokes waves in water…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Zhao Yang

We present an existence and stability theory for gravity-capillary solitary waves with constant vorticity on the surface of a body of water of finite depth. Exploiting a rotational version of the classical variational principle, we prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-25 M. D. Groves , E. Wahlén

In this article we consider irrotational gravity water waves with finite bottom. Our goal is two-fold. First, we represent the equations in holomorphic coordinates and discuss the local well-posedness of the problem in this context. Second,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths , Mihaela Ifrim , Daniel Tataru

We prove the existence and the linear stability of Cantor families of small amplitude time quasi-periodic standing water wave solutions - namely periodic and even in the space variable x - of a bi-dimensional ocean with finite depth under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Pietro Baldi , Massimiliano Berti , Emanuele Haus , Riccardo Montalto

We consider the stability of periodic gravity free-surface water waves traveling downstream at a constant speed over a shear flow of finite depth. In case the free surface is flat, a sharp criterion of linear instability is established for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-28 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Zhiwu Lin

We study the modulational instability of small-amplitude periodic traveling wave solutions in a dispersion generalized Ostrovsky equation. Specifically, we investigate the invertibility of the associated linearized operator in the vicinity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Bhavna , Mathew A. Johnson , Ashish Kumar Pandey

This paper studies the nonlinear stability of capillary-gravity waves propagating along the interface dividing two immiscible fluid layers of finite depth. The motion in both regions is governed by the incompressible and irrotational Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Robin Ming Chen , Samuel Walsh

This paper investigates the stability of traveling wave solutions to the free boundary Euler equations with a submerged point vortex. We prove that sufficiently small-amplitude waves with small enough vortex strength are conditionally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Kristoffer Varholm , Erik Wahlén , Samuel Walsh

Two-dimensional periodic surface waves propagating under the combined influence of gravity and surface tension on water of finite depth are considered. Within the framework of small-amplitude waves, we find the exact solutions of the…

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

It is proven that small-amplitude steady periodic water waves with infinite depth are unstable with respect to long-wave perturbations. This modulational instability was first observed more than half a century ago by Benjamin and Feir. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Huy Q. Nguyen , Walter A. Strauss

We study stationary capillary-gravity waves in a two-dimensional body of water that rests above a flat ocean bed and below vacuum. This system is described by the Euler equations with a free surface. Our main result states that there exist…

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We prove the uniform solvability of a stationary problem associated to internal waves equation with small viscosity in a two dimensional aquarium with real-analytic boundary, under a Morse--Smale dynamical assumption. This is achieved by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Malo Jézéquel , Jian Wang

We derive the dispersion relation for linearized small-amplitude gravity waves for various choices of non-constant vorticity. To the best of our knowledge, this relation is only known explicitly in the case of constant vorticity. We provide…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-20 Paschalis Karageorgis

The Euler's equations describe the motion of inviscid fluid. In the case of shallow water, when a perturbative asymtotic expansion of the Euler's equations is taken (to a certain order of smallness of the scale parameters), relations to…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-09-02 Rossen I. Ivanov

In this paper, we study two-dimensional steady solitary gravity waves propagating along the surface of a fluid of finite depth. In particular, we can deal with general vorticity distributions and overhanging wave profiles. By conformal…

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We establish the existence of small-amplitude uni- and bimodal steady periodic gravity waves with an affine vorticity distribution, using a bifurcation argument that differs slightly from earlier theory. The solutions describe waves with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Ailo Aasen , Kristoffer Varholm

In this work we prove the equivalence between three different weak formulations of the steady periodic water wave problem where the vorticity is discontinuous. In particular, we prove that generalised versions of the standard Euler and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Silvia Sastre-Gómez
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