We revisit experimental studies performed by Ekman on dead-water (Ekman, 1904) using modern techniques in order to present new insights on this peculiar phenomenon. We extend its description to more general situations such as a three-layer fluid or a linearly stratified fluid in presence of a pycnocline, showing the robustness of dead-water phenomenon. We observe large amplitude nonlinear inter...

We study exact four-wave resonances among gravity water waves in a square box with periodic boundary conditions. We show that these resonant quartets are linked with each other by shared Fourier modes in such a way that they form independent clusters. These clusters can be formed by two types of quartets: (1) Angle resonances which cannot directly cascade energy but which can redistribute it am...

Many wave phenomena in physics are described by weakly nonlinear nearly monochromatic solutions in the form of modulated wave packets. The examples include ocean waves as well as waves in optics and in plasmas. There are a number of approaches to deriving the envelope equations for these theories of amplitude modulation. In this paper, we give a unified approach, based on the principles of a Ha...

The wind blowing over sea surface generates tiny wind waves. They develop with time and space absorbing wind energy, and become huge wind waves usually referred to ocean surface waves. The wind waves cause not only serious sea disasters but also take important roles in the local and global climate changes by affecting the fluxes of momentum, heat and gases (e.g. CO2) through the air-sea boundar...

A time domain method is presented for analyzing simultaneous measurements of pressure and the horizontal components of velocity obtained beneath irregular multidirectional wave fields. This new method differs from the usual linear directional analyses applied to PUV data in two important aspects. First, the essential nonlinearity of the measured waves is not sacrificed to achieve a solution. Th...

We generalize the nonlinear one-dimensional equation for a fluid layer surface to any geometry and we introduce a new infinite order differential equation for its traveling solitary waves solutions. This equation can be written as a finite-difference expression, with a general solution that is a power series expansion with coefficients satisfying a nonlinear recursion relation. In the limit of ...