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We devise a stochastic Hamiltonian formulation of the water wave problem. This stochastic representation is built within the framework of the modelling under location uncertainty. Starting from restriction to the free surface of the general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Evgueni Dinvay , Etienne Memin

A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation for the envelope of two dimensional surface water waves on finite depth with non zero constant vorticity is derived, and the influence of this constant vorticity on the well known stability properties of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Roland Thomas , Christian Kharif , Miguel Manna

The equations for waves on the surface of an irrotational incompressible fluid are derived in the coordinates of the velocity potential/stream function. The low frequency shallow water approximation for these waves is derived for a varying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 W. G. Unruh

We prove local well-posedness for the gravity water waves equations without surface tension, with initial velocity field in $H^s$, $s > \frac{d}{2} + 1 - \mu$, where $\mu = \frac{1}{10}$ in the case $d = 1$ and $\mu = \frac{1}{5}$ in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Albert Ai

We consider the spectra of the 2-dim gravity waves of finite depth linearized at a uniform monotonic shear flow $U(x_2)$, $x_2 \in (-h, 0)$, where the wave numbers $k$ of the horizontal variable $x_1$ is treated as a parameter. Our main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Xiao Liu , Chongchun Zeng

In this article we study two classical linear water wave problems, i) normal modes of infinite straight channels of bounded constant cross-section, and ii) trapped longitudinal modes in domains with unbounded constant cross-section. Both…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-16 R. M. Vargas-Magaña , A. A. Minzoni , P. Panayotaros

In this paper we examine the flow generated by coupled surface and internal small-amplitude water waves in a two-fluid layer model, where we take the upper layer to be rotational (constant vorticity) and the lower layer to be irrotational.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-21 David Henry , Rossen I. Ivanov , Zisis N. Sakellaris

We consider the flow of a Newtonian fluid in a three-dimensional domain, rotating about a vertical axis and driven by a vertically invariant horizontal body-force. This system admits vertically invariant solutions that satisfy the 2D…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Basile Gallet

In this paper, we mainly consider two class of travelling stratified periodic water waves, one with negative (or without) surface tension and the other with constant Bernoulli's function and stagnation points. We first establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Fengquan Li , Fei Xu , Yong Zhang

We study the interaction of gravity waves on the surface of an infinitely deep ideal fluid. Starting from Zakharov's variational formulation for water waves we derive an expansion of the Hamiltonian to an arbitrary order, in a manner that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 Nail S. Ussembayev

We investigate steady symmetric gravity water waves on finite depth. For non-positive vorticity it is shown that the particles display a mean forward drift, and for a class of waves we prove that the size of this drift is strictly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-12-05 Mats Ehrnstrom

We consider Euler's equations for free surface waves traveling on a body of density stratified water in the scenario when gravity and surface tension act as restoring forces. The flow is continuously stratified, and the water layer is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Joachim Escher , Patrik Knopf , Christina Lienstromberg , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

Given any suitably small, localized, and smooth initial data, in this paper, we prove global regularity for the $3D$ finite depth gravity water wave system. As a byproduct, we rule out the small, localized traveling waves in $3D$, which do…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Xuecheng Wang

Two dimensional flows on fixed smooth surfaces have been studied in the point of view of vorticity dynamics. Firstly, the related deformation theory including kinematics and kinetics is developed. Secondly, some primary relations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-19 Xi-Lin Xie

We prove the existence of three-dimensional steady gravity-capillary waves with vorticity on water of finite depth. The waves are periodic with respect to a given two-dimensional lattice and the relative velocity field is a Beltrami field,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Evgeniy Lokharu , Douglas Svensson Seth , Erik Wahlén

We consider a two-dimensional, pure capillary drop of nearly-circular shape, having constant vorticity. We write the Craig-Sulem equations on the unit circle, then on the flat torus. We show their Hamiltonian structure and we then observe…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Giuseppe La Scala

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

Wave turbulence is by nature a multiple time scale problem for which there is a natural asymptotic closure. The main result of this analytical theory is the kinetic equation that describes the long-time statistical behaviour of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-09 Benoît Gay , Sébastien Galtier

We present two accurate and efficient algorithms for solving the incompressible, irrotational Euler equations with a free surface in two dimensions with background flow over a periodic, multiply-connected fluid domain that includes…

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