On the local uniqueness and the profile of the extreme Stokes wave

DOI10.1017/S0956792509990209zbMath1198.35178MaRDI QIDQ3557540

P. J. Harwin, L. Edward Fraenkel

Publication date: 23 April 2010

Published in: European Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

local uniqueness; free boundary; Nekrasov equation; extreme gravity wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B15: Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction

35Q30: Navier-Stokes equations

35R35: Free boundary problems for PDEs

76B03: Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible inviscid fluids

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