The bifurcation of steady gravity water waves in (R, S) parameter space

DOI10.1017/S0022112095004101zbMath0872.76009MaRDI QIDQ4887856

S. H. Doole, John Norbury

Publication date: 19 October 1997

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

stream function; Stokes waves; pressure head; flow force; regular expansions; large-amplitude branches; normalized mass flux; subcritical stream

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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