On the symmetry of equatorial travelling water waves with constant vorticity and stagnation points

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 159-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexios Aivaliotis
Keyword(s):  
Water Waves ◽  
Stagnation Points ◽  
Constant Vorticity

scholarly journals Flow structure beneath rotational water waves with stagnation points

2017 ◽  
Vol 812 ◽  
pp. 792-814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Ribeiro ◽  
Paul A. Milewski ◽  
André Nachbin
Keyword(s):  
Water Waves ◽  
Wave Speed ◽  
Physical Domain ◽  
Periodic Surface ◽  
Stagnation Points ◽  
Constant Vorticity ◽  
Interior Flow ◽  
The Waves ◽  
Particle Paths ◽  
Irrotational Wave

The purpose of this work is to explore in detail the structure of the interior flow generated by periodic surface waves on a fluid with constant vorticity. The problem is mapped conformally to a strip and solved numerically using spectral methods. Once the solution is known, the streamlines, pressure and particle paths can be found and mapped back to the physical domain. We find that the flow beneath the waves contains zero, one, two or three stagnation points in a frame moving with the wave speed, and describe the bifurcations between these flows. When the vorticity is sufficiently strong, the pressure in the flow and on the bottom boundary also has very different features from the usual irrotational wave case.

scholarly journals An alternative approach to study irrotational periodic gravity water waves

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Biswajit Basu ◽  
Calin I. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Water Waves ◽  
Water Wave ◽  
Wave Problem ◽  
Water Wave Problem ◽  
Stagnation Points ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
New Formulation ◽  
Bounded Below ◽  
Surface Dynamic

AbstractWe are concerned here with an analysis of the nonlinear irrotational gravity water wave problem with a free surface over a water flow bounded below by a flat bed. We employ a new formulation involving an expression (called flow force) which contains pressure terms, thus having the potential to handle intricate surface dynamic boundary conditions. The proposed formulation neither requires the graph assumption of the free surface nor does require the absence of stagnation points. By way of this alternative approach we prove the existence of a local curve of solutions to the water wave problem with fixed flow force and more relaxed assumptions.

scholarly journals A non-local formulation of rotational water waves

2011 ◽  
Vol 689 ◽  
pp. 129-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. L. Ashton ◽  
A. S. Fokas
Keyword(s):  
Free Surface ◽  
Water Waves ◽  
Velocity Potential ◽  
Vries Equation ◽  
Travelling Waves ◽  
Explicit Dependence ◽  
Local Equation ◽  
Constant Vorticity ◽  
Small Parameters ◽  
Non Local

AbstractThe classical equations of irrotational water waves have recently been reformulated as a system of two equations, one of which is an explicit non-local equation for the wave height and for the velocity potential evaluated on the free surface. Here, in the two-dimensional case: (a) we generalize the relevant formulation to the case of constant vorticity, as well as to the case where the free surface is described by a multivalued function; (b) in the case of travelling waves we derive an upper bound for the free surface; (c) in the case of constant vorticity we construct a sequence of nearly Hamiltonian systems which provide an approximation in the asymptotic limit of certain physical small parameters. In particular, the explicit dependence of the vorticity on the coefficients of the Korteweg–de Vries equation is clarified.

Existence of Wilton Ripples for Water Waves with Constant Vorticity and Capillary Effects

2013 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 1582-1595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calin Iulian Martin ◽  
Bogdan-Vasile Matioc
Keyword(s):  
Water Waves ◽  
Capillary Effects ◽  
Constant Vorticity

scholarly journals Existence and conditional energetic stability of solitary gravity–capillary water waves with constant vorticity

2015 ◽  
Vol 145 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Groves ◽  
E. Wahlén
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Water Waves ◽  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
Finite Depth ◽  
Constant Vorticity ◽  
Existence And Stability ◽  
Strong Surface ◽  
Weak Surface ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Waves

We present an existence and stability theory for gravity–capillary solitary waves with constant vorticity on the surface of a body of water of finite depth. Exploiting a rotational version of the classical variational principle, we prove the existence of a minimizer of the wave energy𝓗subject to the constraint𝓘= 2µ, where𝓘is the wave momentum and 0 <µ≪ 1. Since𝓗and𝓘are both conserved quantities, a standard argument asserts the stability of the setDµof minimizers: solutions starting nearDµremain close toDµin a suitably defined energy space over their interval of existence. In the applied mathematics literature solitary water waves of the present kind are described by solutions of a Korteweg–de Vries equation (for strong surface tension) or a nonlinear Schrödinger equation (for weak surface tension). We show that the waves detected by our variational method converge (after an appropriate rescaling) to solutions of the appropriate model equation asµ↓ 0.

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