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We investigate the dynamics of a dense raft of millimeter-sized granular particles at a vertically vibrated air-water interface, which displays a rich set of patterns and particle dynamics as we vary the vibration amplitude, frequency, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-20 Xiuhe Yan , Tabitha C. Watson , Hongyi Xiao

Here we show that there exist internal gravity waves that are inherently unstable, that is, they cannot exist in nature for a long time. The instability mechanism is a one-way (irreversible) harmonic-generation resonance that permanently…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Y. Liang , Ahmad Zareei , M. -R. Alam

We consider the two-dimensional capillary-gravity water waves problem where the free surface $\Gamma_t$ intersects the bottom $\Gamma_b$ at two contact points. In our previous works \cite{MW2, MW3}, the local well-posedness for this problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Mei Ming , Chao Wang

In this Letter we consider long capillary-gravity waves described by a fully nonlinear weakly dispersive model. First, using the phase space analysis methods we describe all possible types of localized travelling waves. Then, we especially…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Denys Dutykh , Aydar Assylbekuly , Dauren Zhakebayev

We construct small-amplitude steady periodic gravity water waves arising as the free surface of water flows that contain stagnation points and possess a discontinuous distribution of vorticity in the sense that the flows consist of two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Calin Iulian Martin , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

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

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

In this paper we consider two-dimensional, stratified, steady water waves propagating over an impermeable flat bed and with a free surface. The motion is assumed to be driven by capillarity (that is, surface tension) on the surface and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Samuel Walsh

A 'splash' is usually heard when a solid body enters water at large velocity. This phenomena originates from the formation of an air cavity resulting from the complex transient dynamics of the free interface during the impact. The classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Cyril Duez , Christophe Ybert , Christophe Clanet , Lyderic Bocquet

Considered in this paper is a bi-directional model for the propagation of interfacial capillary-gravity waves in a two-layer system of fluids with rigid lid condition for the upper layer and lower layer with a much larger or infinite depth.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-28 A. Durán

We generalize the method used by M{\ae}hlen & Seth [17] used to prove the existence of small-amplitude asymmetric solutions to the capillary-gravity Whiham equation, so that it can be applied directly to a class of similar equations. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Douglas Svensson Seth

Capillary waves are a classical free-surface phenomenon in fluid mechanics, yet their behavior in chiral fluids remains largely unexplored. We show that odd viscosity breaks the reciprocity of capillary waves. Using linear theory together…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Holly du Plessis , Pedro Cosme , Hugo França , Maziyar Jalaal

We study dispersion properties of linear surface gravity waves propagating in an arbitrary direction atop a current profile of depth-varying magnitude using a piecewise linear approximation, and develop a robust numerical framework for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Benjamin K. Smeltzer , Simen Å. Ellingsen

Our understanding of both structure and dynamics of adsorbed liquids heavily relies on the capillary wave Hamiltonian, but a thorough test of this model is still lacking. Here we study the capillary wave fluctuations of a liquid film with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-06 Luis G. MacDowell , Jorge Benet , Nebil A. Katcho

We consider the capillary-gravity water wave equation in two dimensions. We assume that the fluid is inviscid, incompressible, irrotational and the air density is zero. We construct an energy functional and prove a local wellposedness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Siddhant Agrawal

We investigate the influence of a gravitational wave background on particles in circular motion. We are especially interested in waves leading to stationary orbits. This consideration is limited to circular orbits perpendicular to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Manfried Faber , Martin Suda

We prove local exact controllability in arbitrary short time of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equation with free surface, in the case with surface tension. This proves that one can generate arbitrary small amplitude periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Thomas Alazard , Pietro Baldi , Daniel Han-Kwan

In certain models of conformal gravity, the propagation of gravitational waves is governed by a fourth order scalar partial differential equation. We study the initial value problem for a generalization of this equation, and derive a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Sanjeev S. Seahra

We report experimental observations of traveling waves in a pure fluid with a free surface situated in a long container submitted to a horizontal temperature gradient perpendicular to its large extension. Above a critical value of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Daviaud , J. M. Vince

The resonance mechanism in the initial stage of wind-wave generation proposed by Phillips (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 2, 1957, 417$\unicode{x2013}$445) is a foundation of wind-wave generation theory, but a precise theoretical quantification of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-12 Tianyi Li , Lian Shen