A priori estimates for two-dimensional water waves with angled crests (Q1750834)

The authors study the two-dimensional water wave problem in the case where the free interface of the fluid meets a vertical well at a possibly non-right angle. Under the assumptions that the air has density zero, the fluid is inviscid, incompressible and irrotational, and the surface tension is zero, a low-regularity energy functional is constructed and an a priori estimate is deduced. It is worth to point out that these don't require the strong Taylor stability criterion. And it seems that the a priori estimate remains valid for general periodic water wave equations.