A Riemann-Hilbert problem and the Bernoulli boundary condition in the variational theory of Stokes waves

DOI10.1016/S0294-1449(02)00006-9zbMath1045.35113OpenAlexW2023782671MaRDI QIDQ1868105

John F. Toland, Eugene Shargorodsky

Publication date: 27 April 2003

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=AIHPC_2003__20_1_37_0

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointregularity theoryEuler-Lagrange equationStokes wavesBernoulli boundary condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Special integral transforms (Legendre, Hilbert, etc.) (44A15) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Boundary value problems in the complex plane (30E25) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Riemann-Hilbert problems in context of PDEs (35Q15) Conjugate functions, conjugate series, singular integrals (42A50) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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