Nonexistence of subcritical solitary waves

DOI10.1007/S00205-021-01659-YzbMATH Open1467.76023arXiv2001.10447OpenAlexW3003786380MaRDI QIDQ2036635FDOQ2036635

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 30 June 2021

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the nonexistence of two-dimensional solitary gravity water waves with subcritical wave speeds and an arbitrary distribution of vorticity. This is a longstanding open problem, and even in the irrotational case there are only partial results relying on sign conditions or smallness assumptions. As a corollary, we obtain a relatively complete classification of solitary waves: they must be supercritical, symmetric, and monotonically decreasing on either side of a central crest. The proof introduces a new function which is related to the so-called flow force and has several surprising properties. In addition to solitary waves, our nonexistence result applies to "half-solitary" waves (e.g. bores) which decay in only one direction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10447

zbMATH Keywords

gravity waveflow force functionsolitary wave classificationsubcritical wave speed

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25)

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