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We study surface gravity waves for viscous fluid flows governed by Darcy’s law. The free boundary is acted upon by an external pressure posited to be in traveling wave form with a periodic profile. It has been proven that for any given speed, small external pressures generate small periodic traveling waves that are asymptotically stable. In this work, we construct a class of slowly traveling waves that are of arbitrary size and asymptotically stable. Our results are valid in all dimensions and for both the finite and infinite depth cases.
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The authors were partially supported by NSF Grants DMS-2205734 and DMS-2205710. We would like to thank the referees for constructive suggestions.
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Brownfield, J., Nguyen, H.Q. Slowly Traveling Gravity Waves for Darcy Flow: Existence and Stability of Large Waves. Commun. Math. Phys. 405, 222 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-024-05103-6
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