Non-existence of global energy minimisers in Stokes waves problems

DOI10.3934/dcds.2014.34.3211zbMath1292.76024OpenAlexW2321464153MaRDI QIDQ2438718

John F. Toland

Publication date: 6 March 2014

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2014.34.3211

zbMATH Keywords

Stokes wavesshape optimisationwaves with vorticityenergy-minimizers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Existence theories in calculus of variations and optimal control (49J99) Traveling wave solutions (35C07)

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