Asymmetrical three-dimensional travelling gravity waves (Q717485)

This paper deals with small-amplitude, 3-dimensional, periodic travelling gravity waves on the free surface of a perfect fluid. The fluid layer is assumed to be infinitely deep, and the flow is irrotational subject to gravity only. The existence of asymmetrical gravity waves is established and it is shown that the asymptotic direction of the trajectories of fluid particles on the free surface differs from the propagation direction of the waves. The main results on the existence of asymmetric travelling gravity waves refer to a unique solution in a small neighbourhood of an approximate solution. From a single solution of this type a torous family solution is deduced by using a translation operator; on introducing an additional equation for the unknown diffeomorphism of the torous associated with an irrational rotation number, a descent method is used leading to an invertible differential. The existence of solutions with the asymptotic expansion is shown using an adapted Nash-Moser theorem.