The Stokes and Krasovskii conjectures for the wave of greatest height

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 311-333

  McLeod, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

DEEP FLOW; IRROTATIONAL; PERMANENT FORMS; WAVE SURFACE;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0040250355     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9590.00051     Document Type: Article

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