A bubble in ideal fluid with gravity (Q1262470)

The authors study the evolution of a gas bubble surrounded by an ideal, incompressible and irrotational fluid, subject to a uniform gravity field. The effects of surface tension are ignored (i.e., the bubble is assumed large). For a quasi-stationary version of the corresponding free boundary value problem (i.e., if the velocity contribution in Bernoulli's law is neglected and Bernoulli's law is assumed constant in time) the existence, uniqueness and regularity of a solution for small times is proved, including the regularity of the free boundary.