On three-dimensional free surface water flows with constant vorticity (Q2147900)

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On three-dimensional free surface water flows with constant vorticity
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    On three-dimensional free surface water flows with constant vorticity (English)
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    20 June 2022
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    In this paper, the author presents a survey of recent results on gravity water flows satisfying the three-dimensional water wave problem with constant (non-vanishing) vorticity vector. The main focus is to show that a gravity water flow with constant non-vanishing vorticity has a two-dimensional character in spite of satisfying the three-dimensional water wave equations. More precisely, the flow does not change in one of the two horizontal directions. Passing to a rotating frame, and introducing thus geophysical effects (in the form of Coriolis acceleration) into the governing equations, the two-dimensional character of the flow remains in place. However, the two-dimensionality of the flow manifests now in a horizontal plane. Adding also centripetal terms into the equations further simplifies the flow (under the assumption of constant vorticity vector): the velocity field vanishes, but, however, the pressure function is a quadratic polynomial in the horizontal and vertical variables, and, surprisingly, the surface is non-flat.
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    three-dimensional water waves equations
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    time-dependence
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    Coriolis acceleration
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    centripetal terms
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    vorticity
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