Floating Body Problems in Two Dimensions

DOI10.1111/J.1467-9590.2008.00429.XMaRDI QIDQ3393026zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Péter L. Várkonyi

Publication date 18 August 2009

Published in Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9590.2008.00429.x

zbMATH Keywords

nonexistenceUlam problemminimal number of equilibriapinned centroid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible inviscid fluids (76B99)

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