Nonlinear gravity and capillary-gravity waves

F Dias, C Kharif - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 1999 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract This review deals primarily with the bifurcation, stability, and evolution of gravity
and capillary-gravity waves. Recent results on the bifurcation of various types of capillary …

Traveling two and three dimensional capillary gravity water waves

W Craig, DP Nicholls - SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 2000 - SIAM
The main results of this paper are existence theorems for traveling gravity and capillary
gravity water waves in two dimensions, and capillary gravity water waves in three …

KP solitons in shallow water

Y Kodama - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The main purpose of the paper is to provide a survey of our recent studies on soliton
solutions of the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (KP) equation. The KP equation describes weakly …

A pseudospectral procedure for the solution of nonlinear wave equations with examples from free-surface flows

PA Milewski, EG Tabak - SIAM journal on scientific computing, 1999 - SIAM
An algorithm for the solution of general isotropic nonlinear wave equations is presented. The
algorithm is based on a symmetric factorization of the linear part of the wave operator …

Two-dimensional solitary waves for a Benney–Luke equation

RL Pego, JR Quintero - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 1999 - Elsevier
We prove the existence of finite-energy solitary waves for isotropic Benney–Luke equations
that arise in the study of the evolution of small amplitude, three-dimensional water waves …

Traveling gravity water waves in two and three dimensions

W Craig, DP Nicholls - European Journal of Mechanics-B/Fluids, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper discusses the bifurcation theory for the equations for traveling surface water
waves, based on the formulation of Zakharov [58] and of Craig and Sulem [15] in terms of …

Numerical simulation of three-dimensional nonlinear water waves

L Xu, P Guyenne - Journal of Computational Physics, 2009 - Elsevier
We present an accurate and efficient numerical model for the simulation of fully nonlinear
(non-breaking), three-dimensional surface water waves on infinite or finite depth. As an …

On the steady-state nearly resonant waves

S Liao, D Xu, M Stiassnie - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
The steady-state nearly resonant water waves with time-independent spectrum in deep
water are obtained from the full wave equations for inviscid, incompressible gravity waves in …

Analogue black hole spectroscopy; or, how to listen to dumb holes

T Torres, S Patrick, M Richartz… - Classical and Quantum …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Spectroscopy is a fundamental tool in science which consists in studying the response of a
system as a function of frequency. Among its many applications in Physics, Biology …

Waves on a vortex: rays, rings and resonances

T Torres, A Coutant, S Dolan… - Journal of Fluid …, 2018 - cambridge.org
We study the scattering of surface water waves with irrotational draining vortices. At small
depth, this system is a mathematical analogue of a rotating black hole and can be used to …