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This article concerns the water wave problem in a three-dimensional domain of infinite depth and examines the modulational regime for weakly nonlinear wavetrains. We use the method of normal form transformations near the equilibrium state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Philippe Guyenne , Adilbek Kairzhan , Catherine Sulem

In this paper, we consider 2D incompressible Euler equations in an unbounded domain with a free surface and a fixed bottom at finite depth. The fluid motion is under the influence of gravity and surface tension. We construct initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Yuanpeng Tu

The spatial scaling laws of velocity kinetic energy spectrum for compressible turbulence flow and its density-weighted counterpart have been formulated in terms of wavenumber, dissipation rate and Mach number by using dimensional analysis.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-04 Bohua Sun

We derive a new kinetic and a porous medium equations from the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with random potentials. The kinetic equation has a very similar form with the 4-wave turbulence kinetic equation in the wave turbulence theory.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Sergey Nazarenko , Avy Soffer , Minh-Binh Tran

We consider a generic dispersive massive gravity theory and numerically study its resulting modified energy and strain spectra of tensor gravitational waves (GWs) sourced by (i) fully developed turbulence during the electroweak phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-12 Yutong He , Axel Brandenburg , Aditya Sinha

We have advanced the energy and flux budget (EFB) turbulence closure theory that takes into account a two-way coupling between internal gravity waves (IGW) and the shear-free stably stratified turbulence. This theory is based on the budget…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , I. A. Soustova , Yu. I. Troitskaya , O. S. Ermakova , S. Zilitinkevich

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

We consider one-dimensional model of the interaction between surface and the internal gravity water waves. The internal wave is modeled by its basic form: a non-dispersive field with a horizontal current that is uniform over all depth,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 K. Lossow , N. Lossow

There is a formal correspondence between the isotropic 3-wave kinetic equation and the rate equations for a non-linear fragmentation--aggregation process. We exploit this correspondence to study analytically the time evolution of the wave…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 C. Connaughton , P. L. Krapivsky

Gerstner or trochoidal wave is the only known exact solution of the Euler equations for periodic surface gravity waves on deep water. In this Letter we utilize Zakharov's variational formulation of weakly nonlinear surface waves and,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-29 Nail S. Ussembayev

We report experimental results on the decay of wave turbulence in an elastic plate obtained by stopping the forcing from a stationary turbulent state. In the stationary case, the forcing is seen to induce some anisotropy and a spectrum in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Benjamin Miquel , Nicolas Mordant

We define compressive and rarefactive waves and give the differential equations describing smooth wave steepening for the compressible Euler equations with a varying entropy profile and general pressure laws. Using these differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Geng Chen

The Kolmogorov-Zakharov spectrum predicted by the Weak Turbulence Theory remains elusive for wave turbulence of flexural waves at the surface of an thin elastic plate. We report a direct measurement of the nonlinear timescale $T_{NL}$…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 Benjamin Miquel , Nicolas Mordant

We study the propagation of monochromatic surface waves on a turbulent flow. The flow is generated in a layer of liquid metal by an electromagnetic forcing. This forcing creates a quasi two-dimensional (2D) turbulence with strong vertical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-19 Pablo Gutiérrez , Sébastien Aumaitre

Supersonic turbulence generates distributions of shock waves. Here, we analyse the shock waves in three-dimensional numerical simulations of uniformly driven supersonic turbulence, with and without magnetohydrodynamics and self-gravity. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael D. Smith , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Fabian Heitsch

We report the experimental characterization of free-surface deformations generated by three-dimensional homogeneous and isotropic turbulence. Using Fourier transform profilometry in a jet-forced turbulent tank, we perform spatiotemporal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-14 Michaël Berhanu , Eric Falcon

A laminar flow of a thin layer of mud down an inclined plane under the action of gravity is considered. The instability of a film flow and the formation of finite amplitude waves are studied in the framework of both two-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-01 Alexander Chesnokov

Consider a three-dimensional fluid in a rectangular tank, bounded by a flat bottom, vertical walls and a free surface evolving under the influence of gravity. We prove that one can estimate its energy by looking only at the motion of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Thomas Alazard

We study the statistics of free-surface turbulence at large Reynolds numbers produced by direct numerical simulations in a fluid layer at different thickness with fixed characteristic forcing scale. We observe the production of a transient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-12 G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino , S. Musacchio , M. E. Rosti

We consider a model, which we named the Kakinuma model, for interfacial gravity waves. As is well-known, the full model for interfacial gravity waves has a variational structure whose Lagrangian is an extension of Luke's Lagrangian for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Vincent Duchêne , Tatsuo Iguchi