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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

In this paper we construct small amplitude periodic internal waves traveling at the boundary region between two rotational and homogeneous fluids with different densities. Within a period, the waves we obtain have the property that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Anca-Voichita Matioc

Theoretical results on water waves almost always start by assuming irrotationality of the flow in order to simplify the formulation. In this work, we investigate the well-foundedness of this hypothesis via numerical simulations of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 Alan Riquier , Emmanuel Dormy

We construct small-amplitude periodic water waves with multiple critical layers. In addition to waves with arbitrarily many critical layers and a single crest in each period, two-dimensional sets of waves with several crests and troughs in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-04 Mats Ehrnström , Joachim Escher , Erik Wahlén

We provide high-order approximations to periodic travelling wave profiles and to the velocity field and the pressure beneath the waves, in flows with constant vorticity over a flat bed.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-16 Adrian Constantin , Konstantinos Kalimeris , Otmar Scherzer

We prove the existence of small steady periodic capillary-gravity water waves for general stratified flows, where we allow for stagnation points in the flow. We establish the existence of both laminar and non-laminar flow solutions for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-27 David Henry , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

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

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

This study analyzes steady periodic hydroelastic waves propagating on the water surface of finite depth beneath nonlinear elastic membranes. Unlike previous work \cite{BaldiT,BaldiT1,Toland,Toland1}, our formulation accommodates rotational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Yong Zhang

In this paper we construct periodic capillarity-gravity water waves with an arbitrary bounded vorticity distribution. This is achieved by reexpressing, in the height function formulation of the water wave problem, the boundary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Anca-Voichita matioc , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

The stability of an exponential current in water to infinitesimal perturbations in the presence of gravity and capillarity is investigated. Some new results on the generation of gravity-capillary waves are presented which supplement the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-23 Malek Abid , Christian Kharif

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

Steady linear gravity waves of small amplitude travelling on a current of constant vorticity are found. For negative vorticity we show the appearance of internal waves and vortices, wherein the particle trajectories are not any more closed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-12-05 Mats Ehrnstrom , Gabriele Villari

We consider three-dimensional geophysical flows at arbitrary latitude and with constant vorticity beneath a wave train and above a flat bed in the $\beta$-plane approximation with centripetal forces. We consider the $f$-plane approximation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Jifeng Chu , Yanjuan Yang

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

Governing equations for two-dimensional inviscid free-surface flows with constant vorticity over arbitrary non-uniform bottom profile are presented in exact and compact form using conformal variables. An efficient and very accurate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-13 V. P. Ruban

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

In this paper, we consider capillary-gravity waves propagating on the interface separating two fluids of finite depth and constant density. The flow in each layer is assumed to be incompressible and of constant vorticity. We prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Daniel Sinambela

The flow structures beneath waves have received significant attention from both theoretical and numerical perspectives. Most studies on this topic assume a flat bottom, leading to questions about the effects of variable bottom topography.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-30 L. G. Martins , M. V. Flamarion , R. Ribeiro-Jr

We consider steady solutions to the incompressible Euler equations in a two-dimensional channel with rigid walls. The flow consists of two periodic layers of constant vorticity separated by an unknown interface. Using global bifurcation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Alex Doak , Karsten Matthies , Jonathan Sewell , Miles H. Wheeler