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This paper explores the analytical approach for obtaining the multiple solutions of three-wave interacting system in (1+1) dimensions. We present a novel approach by expressing the wave solutions in terms of Jacobi elliptic functions and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-03-14 Niladri Ghosh , Amiya Das , Debraj Nath

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Mats Ehrnström , Samuel Walsh , Chongchun Zeng

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

We consider the gravity-capillary water waves equations of a 2D fluid with constant vorticity. By employing variational methods we prove the bifurcation of periodic traveling water waves -- which are steady in a moving frame -- for {\it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-12 T. Barbieri , M. Berti , A. Maspero , M. Mazzucchelli

Third-order approximate solutions for surface gravity waves in the finite water depth are studied in the context of potential flow theory. This solution provides explicit expressions for the surface elevation, free-surface velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-15 Zhe Gao , Z. C Sun , S. X Liang

In this paper, we study the three-dimensional gravity-capillary water wave problem involving an irrotational, perfect fluid with gravity and surface tension. We focus on steady waves propagating uniformly in one direction. Assuming constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Changfeng Gui , Shanfa Lai , Yong Liu , Juncheng Wei , Wen Yang

A unidirectional reduction of the deep-water surface gravity wave problem is derived in physical space using real variables. By employing a near-identity canonical transformation, cubic interactions are eliminated from the Hamiltonian, with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Päivo Simson

We study the bifurcation of periodic travelling waves of the capillary-gravity Whitham equation. This is a nonlinear pseudo-differential equation that combines the canonical shallow water nonlinearity with the exact (unidirectional)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Mats Ehrnström , Mathew A. Johnson , Ola I. H. Maehlen , Filippo Remonato

A single incompressible, inviscid, irrotational fluid medium bounded by a free surface and varying bottom is considered. The Hamiltonian of the system is expressed in terms of the so-called Dirichlet-Neumann operators. The equations for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-09 Alan Compelli , Rossen I. Ivanov , Michail D. Todorov

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

We report a laboratory investigation of weak turbulence of water surface waves in the gravity-capillary crossover. By using time-space resolved profilometry and a bicoherence analysis, we observe that the nonlinear processes involve 3-wave…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-24 Quentin Aubourg , Nicolas Mordant

Fully localised solitary waves are travelling-wave solutions of the three-dimensional gravity-capillary water wave problem which decay to zero in every horizontal spatial direction. Their existence for water of finite depth has recently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Boris Buffoni , Mark D. Groves , Erik Wahlén

We consider the stability of periodic gravity-capillary waves of finite amplitude for small values of the surface tension. Linear stability with respect to both superharmonic and subharmonic perturbations is calculated for each solution,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Josh Shelton , Adam Rook

We establish novel existence results of $3d$ gravity-capillary periodic traveling waves. In particular we prove the bifurcation of multiple, geometrically distinct truly $3d$ Stokes waves having the same momentum of any non-resonant $2d$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Tommaso Barbieri , Massimiliano Berti , Marco Mazzucchelli

The periodic standing wave method studies circular orbits of compact objects coupled to helically symmetric standing wave gravitational fields. From this solution an approximation is extracted for the strong field, slowly inspiralling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-24 Napoleon Hernandez , Richard H. Price

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

We present a numerical study of spatially quasi-periodic traveling waves on the surface of an ideal fluid of infinite depth. This is a generalization of the classic Wilton ripple problem to the case when the ratio of wave numbers satisfying…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jon Wilkening , Xinyu Zhao

We consider a system of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations with quadratic interaction in two and three space dimensions. The strong instability of standing wave solutions is studied for the system without assuming the mass resonance…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Masahito Ohta

Wilton ripples are a type of periodic traveling wave solution of the full water wave problem incorporating the effects of surface tension. They are characterized by a resonance phenomenon that alters the order at which the resonant harmonic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-10 Olga Trichtchenko , Bernard Deconinck , Jon Wilkening

This paper is devoted to the computation of capillary-gravity solitary waves of the irrotational incompressible Euler equations with free surface. The numerical study is a continuation of a previous work in several points: an alternative…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Denys Dutykh , Didier Clamond , Angel Duran