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Traveling waves from the arclength parameterization: Vortex sheets with surface tension
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Traveling waves from the arclength parameterization: Vortex sheets with surface tension

Benjamin Akers, David M. Ambrose and J. Douglas Wright
Interfaces and free boundaries, v 15(3), pp 359-380
01 Jan 2013
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https://doi.org/10.4171/ifb/306View
Published, Version of Record (VoR)Maybe Open Access (Publisher Bronze) Open
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https://doi.org/10.4171/IFB/306View
Published, Version of Record (VoR) Open

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Mathematics Mathematics, Applied Physical Sciences Science & Technology
We study traveling waves for the vortex sheet with surface tension. We use the angle-arclength description of the interface rather than Cartesian coordinates, and we utilize an arclength parameterization as well. In this setting, we make a new formulation of the traveling wave ansatz. For this problem, it should be possible for traveling waves to overturn, and notably, our formulation does allow for waves with multi-valued height. We prove that there exist traveling vortex sheets with surface tension bifurcating from equilibrium. We compute these waves by means of a quasi-Newton iteration in Fourier space; we find continua of traveling waves bifurcating from equilibrium and extending to include overturning waves, for a variety of values of the mean vortex sheet strength.

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