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In periodic wave motion, particles beneath the wave undergo a drift in the direction of wave propagation, a phenomenon known as Stokes drift. While extensive research has been conducted on Stokes drift in water wave flows, its counterpart…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-18 Luiz P. Palacio , Marcelo V. Flamarion , Tao Gao , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr

By providing mathematical estimates, this paper answers a fundamental question -- "what leads to Stokes drift"? Although overwhelmingly understood for water waves, Stokes drift is a generic mechanism that stems from kinematics and occurs in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-27 Anirban Guha , Akanksha Gupta

Stokes drift is a classical fluid effect in which travelling waves transfer momentum to tracers of the fluid, resulting in a non-zero drift velocity in the direction of the incoming wave. This effect is the driving mechanism allowing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Umberto Giuriato , Giorgio Krstulovic , Miguel Onorato , Davide Proment

Classical Stokes' drift is the small time-averaged drift velocity of suspended non-diffusing particles in a fluid due to the presence of a wave. We consider the effect of adding diffusion to the motion of the particles, and show in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kalvis M. Jansons , G. D. Lythe

Periodic water waves generate Stokes drift as manifest from the orbits of Lagrangian particles not fully closing. Stokes drift can contribute to the transport of floating marine litter, including plastic. Previously, marine litter objects…

We study the stability of Stokes waves on a free surface of an ideal fluid of infinite depth. For small steepness the modulational instability dominates the dynamics, but its growth rate is vastly surpassed for steeper waves by an…

We derive the explicit analytic expression for the Stokes' drift in one dimension in the presence of a dichotomic Markov forcing. For small amplitudes of the forcing, the drift is enhanced, but the enhancement is reduced with increasing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 I. Bena , M. Copelli , C. Van den Broeck

We consider the stochastic Stokes drift of a flexible dumbbell. The dumbbell consists of two isotropic Brownian particles connected by a linear spring with zero natural length, and is advected by a sinusoidal wave. We find an asymptotic…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Kalvis M. Jansons

A scroll wave in a very thin layer of excitable medium is similar to a spiral wave, but its behaviour is affected by the layer geometry. We identify the effect of sharp variations of the layer thickness, which is separate from filament…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-02-13 I. V. Biktasheva , H. Dierckx , V. N. Biktashev

A Stokes wave is a traveling free-surface periodic water wave that is constant in the direction transverse to the direction of propagation. In 1981 McLean discovered via numerical methods that Stokes waves are unstable with respect to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Ryan P. Creedon , Huy Q. Nguyen , Walter A. Strauss

A Stokes wave is a traveling free-surface periodic water wave that is constant in the direction transverse to the direction of propagation. In 1981 McLean discovered via numerical methods that Stokes waves at infinite depth are unstable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Ryan P. Creedon , Huy Q. Nguyen , W. A. Strauss

We study the effect of surface gravity waves on the motion of inertial particles in an incompressible fluid. Using the multiple-scale technique, we perform an analytical calculation which allows us to predict the dynamics of such particles;…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-01-25 G. Boffetta , M. Martins Afonso , A. Mazzino , M. Onorato , F. Santamaria

The normal modes of a continuum solid endowed with a random distribution of line defects that behave like elastic strings are described. These strings interact with elastic waves in the bulk, generating wave dispersion and attenuation. As…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Fernando Lund

Elastic wave dispersion is studied in an octet truss lattice and compared with a designed rib lattice known to exhibit strong Cosserat elastic effects. Dispersion entails variation of wave speed with frequency. The phenomenon is…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-27 K. Goyal , R. S. Lakes

Stokes drift has been as central to the history of wave theory as it has been distressingly absent from experiment. Neither wave tanks nor experiments in open bodies detect this without nearly canceling "eulerian flows." Acoustic waves have…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-15 Clifford Chafin

A prevalent feature of three-dimensional turbulence is the presence of anomalous dissipation, or that the mean rate of energy dissipation is bounded below by a positive number in the inviscid limit. This is thought to be due to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Ethan Dudley , Konstantina Trivisa

The Stokes paradox is the statement that in a viscous two dimensional fluid, the "linear response" problem of fluid flow around an obstacle is ill-posed. We present a simple consequence of this paradox in the hydrodynamic regime of a Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Andrew Lucas

We consider scattering of elastic waves on parallel wedge dislocations in the geometric theory of defects or, equivalently, scattering of point particles and light rays on cosmic strings. Dislocations are described as torsion singularities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. O. Katanaev , I. V. Volovich

We discuss the stick-slip motion of an elastic block sliding along a rigid substrate. We argue that for a given external shear stress this system shows a discontinuous nonequilibrium transition from a uniform stick state to uniform sliding…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Efim A. Brener , S. V. Malinin , V. I. Marchenko

Stochastic Stokes' drift and hypersensitive transport driven by dichotomous noise are theoretically investigated. Explicit mathematical expressions for the asymptotic probability density and drift velocity are derived including the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Bena , R. Kawai , C. Van den Broeck , Katja Lindenberg
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