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- Trapped modes in a fluid with three layers topped by a rigid lidPublication . Cal, Filipe; Dias, Gonçalo A. S.; Pereira, Bruno M. M.We consider trapping of linear water waves by a submerged horizontal cylinder in a three-layer fluid topped by a rigid lid. Trapped modes correspond to time harmonic oscillations with finite energy of the fluid surrounding a submerged structure and can be found as eigenfunctions of a certain spectral boundary-value problem. Our main result is a geometric condition relating the cross sections of the submerged parts of the obstacles and the line integrals along the parts of the interfaces pierced by the obstacles and guaranteeing the existence of trapped modes: This follows from variational techniques applied to a suitable operator formulation of the problem. Several examples of structures (piercing or not the interfaces between the fluid layers) satisfying the condition and supporting trapped modes are given.
- Velocity and energy of periodic travelling interfacial waves between two bounded fluidsPublication . Cal, Filipe; Dias, Gonçalo A. S.For a periodic travelling irrotational wave propagating at the interface between two homogeneous, incompressible and inviscid fluids bounded by horizontal planes, we generalise the Stokes definitions for the velocity of the wave propagation. Under certain conditions imposed on the horizontal velocity of the motion at the interface and supposing that the horizontal components of the velocity in each layer never reach the wave speed, we prove that the mean horizontal velocity of propagation of the wave is greater than the generalised mean horizontal velocity of the mass of the fluid. We show that, for interfacial waves of small amplitude, the excess kinetic and potential energy of the fluid have the same magnitude, but different signs, and for the nonlinear setting, we prove that the excess kinetic energy is negative.