Full description of Benjamin-Feir instability of Stokes waves in deep water

M Berti, A Maspero, P Ventura - Inventiones mathematicae, 2022 - Springer
Small-amplitude, traveling, space periodic solutions–called Stokes waves–of the 2
dimensional gravity water waves equations in deep water are linearly unstable with respect …

Pure gravity traveling quasi‐periodic water waves with constant vorticity

M Berti, L Franzoi, A Maspero - Communications on Pure and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We prove the existence of small amplitude time quasi‐periodic solutions of the pure gravity
water waves equations with constant vorticity, for a bidimensional fluid over a flat bottom …

Space quasi-periodic steady Euler flows close to the inviscid Couette flow

L Franzoi, N Masmoudi, R Montalto - Archive for Rational Mechanics and …, 2024 - Springer
We prove the existence of steady space quasi-periodic stream functions, solutions for the
Euler equation in a vorticity-stream function formulation in the two dimensional channel R× …

Stokes waves at the critical depth are modulationally unstable

M Berti, A Maspero, P Ventura - Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2024 - Springer
The paper fully answers a long standing open question concerning the stability/instability of
pure gravity periodic traveling water waves—called Stokes waves—at the critical Whitham …

Hamiltonian Birkhoff normal form for gravity-capillary water waves with constant vorticity: almost global existence

M Berti, A Maspero, F Murgante - Annals of PDE, 2024 - Springer
We prove an almost global existence result for space periodic solutions of the 1D gravity-
capillary water waves equations with constant vorticity. The result holds for any value of …

Time quasi-periodic vortex patches of Euler equation in the plane

M Berti, Z Hassainia, N Masmoudi - Inventiones mathematicae, 2023 - Springer
We prove the existence of time quasi-periodic vortex patch solutions of the 2 d-Euler
equations in R 2, close to uniformly rotating Kirchhoff elliptical vortices, with aspect ratios …

Paralinearization and extended lifespan for solutions of the α-SQG sharp front equation

M Berti, S Cuccagna, F Gancedo, S Scrobogna - Advances in Mathematics, 2025 - Elsevier
In this paper we paralinearize the contour dynamics equation for sharp-fronts of α-SQG, for
any α∈(0, 1)∪(1, 2), close to a circular vortex. This turns out to be a quasi-linear …

Benjamin–Feir instability of Stokes waves in finite depth

M Berti, A Maspero, P Ventura - Archive for Rational Mechanics and …, 2023 - Springer
Whitham and Benjamin predicted in 1967 that small-amplitude periodic traveling Stokes
waves of the 2d-gravity water waves equations are linearly unstable with respect to long …

A KAM Approach to the Inviscid Limit for the 2D Navier–Stokes Equations

L Franzoi, R Montalto - Annales Henri Poincaré, 2024 - Springer
In this paper, we investigate the inviscid limit ν→ 0 for time-quasi-periodic solutions of the
incompressible Navier–Stokes equations on the two-dimensional torus T 2, with a small time …

Large amplitude traveling waves for the non-resistive MHD system

G Ciampa, R Montalto, S Terracina - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.17943, 2024 - arxiv.org
We prove the existence of large amplitude bi-periodic traveling waves (stationary in a
moving frame) of the two-dimensional non-resistive Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system …