On variational formulations for steady water waves

DOI10.1007/S002050050028zbMath0888.76008OpenAlexW2021702070MaRDI QIDQ1362781

Mark D. Groves, John F. Toland

Publication date: 13 May 1998

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002050050028

zbMATH Keywords

gravitysurface tensionboundary value problemLagrangian formalismHamiltonian systemdynamic boundary conditionconvex duality theorysymplectic 2-formkinematic boundary conditionstrajectories of Hamiltonian vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99)

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