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Waves on a vortex: rays, rings and resonances (2018)
Journal Article
Torres, T., Coutant, A., Dolan, S., & Weinfurtner, S. (2018). Waves on a vortex: rays, rings and resonances. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 857, 291-311. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2018.752

We study the scattering of surface water waves with irrotational draining vortices. At small depth, this system is a mathematical analogue of a rotating black hole and can be used to mimic some of its peculiar phenomena. Using ray-tracing methods, we... Read More about Waves on a vortex: rays, rings and resonances.

Black hole quasibound states from a draining bathtub vortex flow (2018)
Journal Article
Patrick, S., Coutant, A., Richartz, M., & Weinfurtner, S. (2018). Black hole quasibound states from a draining bathtub vortex flow. Physical Review Letters, 121(6), Article 061101. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.121.061101

Quasinormal modes are a set of damped resonances that describe how an excited open system is driven back to equilibrium. In gravitational physics these modes characterize the ringdown of a perturbed black hole, e.g., following a binary black hole mer... Read More about Black hole quasibound states from a draining bathtub vortex flow.

Low-frequency analogue Hawking radiation: The Bogoliubov-de Gennes model (2018)
Journal Article
Coutant, A., & Weinfurtner, S. (2018). Low-frequency analogue Hawking radiation: The Bogoliubov-de Gennes model. Physical Review D, 97(2), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.025006

We analytically study the low-frequency properties of the analogue Hawking effect in Bose-Einstein condensates. We show that in one-dimensional flows displaying an analogue horizon, the Hawking effect is dominant in the low-frequency regime. This hap... Read More about Low-frequency analogue Hawking radiation: The Bogoliubov-de Gennes model.

Low-frequency analogue Hawking radiation: the Korteweg–de Vries model (2018)
Journal Article
Coutant, A., & Weinfurtner, S. (2018). Low-frequency analogue Hawking radiation: the Korteweg–de Vries model. Physical Review D, 97(2), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.025005

We derive analytic expressions for the low-frequency properties of the analogue Hawking radiation in a general weak-dispersive medium. A thermal low-frequency part of the spectrum is expected even when dispersive effects become significant. We consid... Read More about Low-frequency analogue Hawking radiation: the Korteweg–de Vries model.