A variational approach to surface solitary waves

DOI10.1016/0022-0396(84)90077-9zbMath0574.76015OpenAlexW2067977609MaRDI QIDQ1063472

Robert E. L. Turner

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0396(84)90077-9

zbMATH Keywords

constrained variational problemnon-diffusive variable densityperiodic and solitary surface wavessingle crested wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25)

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