A variational formulation of three-dimensional steady water waves

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1799, 2002, Pages 2111-2126

  Buffoni, B ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Free boundary problem; Gravity capillary waves; Incompressible and inviscid fluid; Steady periodic waves; Variational formulation; Water waves

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; FLOW KINETICS; GRAVITY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

GRAVITATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 0037107579     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1064     Document Type: Article

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