Waves in an inhomogeneous fluid in the presence of a dock : PMM vol. 39, n 6, 1975, pp. 1140–1142

We investigate the propagation of waves generated by oscillations of a section of the bottom of a tank through a two-layer fluid, in the presence of a dock. Wave motions in an inhomogeneous fluid generated by displacement of a section of the bottom of a tank were studied in [1] where the upper surface of the fluid was assumed either to be completely free, or completely covered with ice. In the present paper we use the method given in [2] to investigate a similar problem under the assumption that the fluid surface is partly covered with an immovable rigid plate. The expressions obtained for the velocity potential are used to determine the form of the free surface and of the interface. We show that when the fluid is inhomogeneous, the wave amplitude on the free surface increases, while the presence of a plate reduces the amplitude of the surface waves, as well as of the internal waves in the region between the plate and the oscillating section of the bottom.     

A Perturbation Analysis of an Interaction between Long and Short Surface Waves

The interaction of finite-amplitude long gravity waves with a small-amplitude packet of short capillary waves is studied by a multiple-scale method based on the invariance of the perturbation expansion under certain translations. The result of the analysis is a set of equations coupling the complex amplitude of the packet of short waves with the long-wave velocity potential and surface elevation. The short wave is described by a Ginzburg-Landau equation with coefficients that depend on properties of the long wave. The long-wave potential and surface elevation satisfy the usual free-surface conditions augmented by forcing terms representing effects of the short waves. The derivation removes some of the restrictions imposed in earlier studies.     

Surface and normal electroelastic shear waves in even-layered structures

We construct the dispersion equations for surface and normal shear waves propagating in layered periodic structures consisting of alternating layers of piezoelectric and metal. We carry out a numerical analysis of the equations obtained in a wide range of variation of frequency. We describe the distinctive characteristics of dispersion spectra of surface and normal waves and their interrelation. We give the characteristic distributions of the amplitude walues of the mechanical displacements and stresses and the electric potential. Three figures. Bibliography: 7 titles. Translated fromTeoreticheskaya i Prikladnaya Mekhanika, No. 22, pp. 50–58, 1991.     

Nonlinear free surface condition due to second order diffraction by a pair of cylinders

An analysis of the non-homogeneous term involved in the free surface condition for second order wave diffraction on a pair of cylinders is presented. In the computations of the nonlinear loads on offshore structures the most challenging task is the computation of the free surface integral. The main contribution to this integrand is due to the nonhomogeneous term present in the free surface condition for second order scattered potential. In this paper, the free surface condition for the second order scattered potential is derived. Under the assumption of large spacing between the two cylinders, waves scattered by one cylinder may be replaced in the vicinity of the other cylinder by equivalent plane waves together with non-planner correction terms. Then solving a complex matrix equation, the first order scattered potential is derived and since the free surface term for second order scattered potential can be expressed in terms of the first order potentials, the free surface term can be obtained using the knowledge of first order potentials only.     

Modeling and control of surface gravity waves in a model of a copper converter

Undesirable splashing appears in copper converters when air is injected into the molten matte to trigger the conversion process. We consider here a cylindrical container horizontally placed and containing water, where gravity waves on the liquid surface are generated due to water injection through a lateral submerged nozzle. The fluid dynamics in a transversal section of the converter is modeled by a 2-D inviscid potential flow involving a gravity wave equation with local damping on the liquid surface. Once the model is established, using a finite element method, the corresponding natural frequencies and normal modes are numerically computed in the absence of injection, and the solution of the system with injection is obtained using the spectrum. If a finite number of modes is considered, this approximation leads to a system of ordinary differential equations where the input is represented by the fluid injection. The dynamics is simulated as perturbations around a constant fluid injection solution, which is the desired operating state of the system, considering that the conversion process does not have to be stopped or seriously affected by the control. The solution is naturally unstable without control and the resulting increase of amplitude of the surface waves are assimilable to the splashing inside the converter. We show numerically that a variable flow around the operating injection is able to sensibly reduce these waves. This control is obtained by a LQG feedback law by measuring the elevation of the free surface at the point corresponding to the opposite extreme to where the nozzle injection is placed.     

Orbital stability of solitary waves on a ferrofluid jet

We prove the orbital stability of small-amplitude axisymmetric solitary waves on the surface of an incompressible, inviscid ferrofluid jet. The ferrofluid surrounds a current-carrying rod and is subject to the azimuthal magnetic field generated by the rod. We show that under appropriate assumptions on the magnitude of the magnetic intensity in the ferrofluid, both the trivial flow and the solitary waves with strong surface tension are conditionally orbitally stable, while the conditional orbital stability of solitary waves with near-critical surface tension can be deduced from properties of the corresponding dispersive PDE model equation. The arguments are based on the recent orbital stability results for internal waves by Chen and Walsh (2022) and an improved version of the Grillakis–Shatah–Strauss method introduced by Varholm et al. (2020).     

Integral and Asymptotic Properties of Solitary Waves in Deep Water

We consider two‐ and three‐dimensional gravity and gravity‐capillary solitary water waves in infinite depth. Assuming algebraic decay rates for the free surface and velocity potential, we show that the velocity potential necessarily behaves like a dipole at infinity and obtain a related asymptotic formula for the free surface. We then prove an identity relating the “dipole moment” to the kinetic energy. This implies that the leading‐order terms in the asymptotics are nonvanishing and in particular that the angular momentum is infinite. Lastly we prove that the “excess mass” vanishes. © 2018 the Authors. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics is published by the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Exact solitary water waves with capillary ripples at infinity

We prove the existence of solitary water waves of elevation, as exact solutions of the equations of steady inviscid flow, taking into account the effect of surface tension on the free surface. In contrast to the case without surface tension, a resonance occurs with periodic waves of the same speed. The wave form consists of a single crest on the elongated scale with a much smaller oscillation at infinity on the physical scale. We have not proved that the amplitude of the oscillation is actually nonzero; a formal calculation suggests that it is exponentially small.     

Love waves with a transverse structure

For an arbitrary layered isotropic structure, new exact solutions of the elastodynamic problem for the propagation of surface waves are presented. These solutions describe waves with rectilinear wave fronts propagating at the phase velocities of common SH-polarized Love waves. They linearly depend on a lateral transverse variable and, in addition to being standardly SH-polarized, have a longitudinally polarized anomalous component. The construction uses the assumption of the existence of standard Love waves. It is based on a potential representation of the wavefield and is quite elementary.     

Energy Spectrum Width and Nonequilibrium Energy of Rayleigh Waves Scattered on a Two-Dimensional Near-Surface Electron Layer

We obtain expressions for the energy spectrum widths of Rayleigh waves corresponding to their deformational coupling to Fermi and Boltzmann electrons in a two-dimensional layer near the surface of a semibounded solid. We evaluate the nonequilibrium energy of Rayleigh waves that depends on these widths and is caused by the same coupling to the corresponding hot electrons. We show that this energy is independent of the degeneracy degree of the electrons and is given by the mean energy of free Rayleigh waves heated up to temperature of the electrons. We find conditions under which the thermodynamics is determined by this nonequilibrium energy of Rayleigh waves in films of a certain thickness with Fermi electrons near the surface and by the equilibrium energy of bulk phonons in thicker samples. All the results are obtained using the Keldysh diagram technique applied to the case of semibounded media.     

Generation of surface gravity waves by bottom time-repetitive pulses

We investigate the deviation of free surface, generated by two repetitive excitations of the bottom surface, within the framework of model of a liquid of finite depth. The liquid is assumed to be incompressible and inviscid, which allows us to consider the problem in the potential statement. The problem is solved on the basis of the Hankel integral transformation by the radial coordinate and Laplace integral transformation by time with subsequent numerical inversion. We present and analyze some numerical results for the case of axially symmetric disturbance of the horizontal bottom surface (underwater earthquake). We show the appearance of waves with growing amplitudes for certain values of the time delay and increase in the rate of pulse rise. We also show that an increase in the pulse sharpness (its rise with time) will cause an increase in the amplitude.     

A Problem Connected with the Oblique Incidence of Surface Waves on an Immersed Cylinder

If we wish to calculate the forces due to surface waves impingingon an obstacle held immersed in the fluid, the Haskind relationsshow that these forces can be expressed in terms of potentialswhich represent forced motions of the obstacle in initiallycalm water. We consider in this paper one such potential forwaves obliquely incident on an infinitely long circular cylinder,this potential being a generalization of the heaving potentialfor the circular cylinder considered by Ursell. We considerthe high frequency case when the angle of incidence is not smalland obtain an integral equation for the velocity potential onthe cylinder. An approximate solution of the integral equationis obtained and this is used to obtain asymptotic approximationsto the wave amplitude at infinity and the virtual mass coefficient.     

Unique solvability of the water waves problem in Sobolev spaces

Studying the problem of unsteady waves on the surface of an infinitely deep heavy incompressible ideal fluid, we derive equations for the height of the free surface as well as the vertical and horizontal components of velocity on the free surface. We prove that the initial-boundary value water waves problem is short-time solvable in Sobolev spaces.     

Anomalous waves as an object of statistical topography: Problem statement

Based on ideas of statistical topography, we analyze the boundary-value problem of the appearance of anomalous large waves (rogue waves) on the sea surface. The boundary condition for the sea surface is regarded as a closed stochastic quasilinear equation in the kinematic approximation. We obtain the stochastic Liouville equation, which underlies the derivation of an equation describing the joint probability density of fields of sea surface displacement and its gradient. We formulate the statistical problem with the stochastic topographic inhomogeneities of the sea bottom taken into account. It describes diffusion in the phase space, and its solution must answer the question whether information about the existence of anomalous large waves is contained in the quasilinear equation under consideration.     

Whitecapping

The work we describe addresses the process of whitecapping. We first argue that, when the winds are strong enough, the ocean surface must develop an alternative means to dissipate energy when its flux from large to small scales becomes too large. We then show that the resulting Phillips' spectrum, which holds at small or meter length scales, is dominated by sharp crested waves. We next idealize such a sea locally by a family of close to maximum amplitude Stokes waves and show, using highly accurate simulation algorithms based on a conformal map representation, that perturbed Stokes waves develop the universal feature of an overturning plunging jet. We analyze both the cases when surface tension is absent and present. In the latter case, we show the plunging jet is regularized by capillary waves that rapidly become nonlinear Crapper waves in whose trough pockets whitecaps may be spawned. We are careful not to claim this as the definitive mechanism for whitecaps because three‐dimensional effects, although qualitatively discussed, are not included in the analysis.     

Recovery of interior eigenvalues from reduced near field data

We consider inverse obstacle and transmission scattering problems where the source of the incident waves is located on a smooth closed surface that is a boundary of a domain located outside of the obstacle/inhomogeneity of the media. The domain can be arbitrarily small but fixed.The scattered waves are measured on the same surface. An effective procedure is suggested for recovery of interior eigenvalues by these data.     

Effective wavelength of envelope waves on the water surface beneath an ice sheet: small amplitudes and moderate depths

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics - We focus our attention on the comparison of wavelengths of envelopes, monochromatic waves, and speeds of so-called envelope solitary waves on the surface of...     

On surface waves in diffraction gratings

We discuss the existence criterion of surface waves based on the augmented scattering matrices. Such matrices arise if one takes into account not only oscillating waves but also those which grow (attenuate) in amplitude far from the grating. A family of planar dielectric gratings with periodic modulation of the refraction index is considered. Asymptotic and numerical analysis of the model are given. We represent various examples of gratings which support (or do not support) surface waves. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.