A variational approach to surface solitary waves (Q1063472)

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A variational approach to surface solitary waves
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    A variational approach to surface solitary waves (English)
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    1984
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    This paper makes rigorous use of a variational procedure to obtain periodic and solitary surface waves in a fluid with a non-diffusive variable density which may be discontinuous. The principle used is Lagrangian in character and reduces to a constrained variational problem. In addition to obtaining a single crested wave moving in a fluid which is at rest far from the crest, periodic solutions are also found in the horizontal direction which decay exponentially from crest to trough.
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    periodic and solitary surface waves
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    non-diffusive variable density
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    constrained variational problem
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    single crested wave
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