Existence by minimisation of solitary water waves on an ocean of infinite depth

Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Analyse Non Lineaire

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 503-516

  Buffoni, B ^a  

^a Section de Mathematiques Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Capillary gravity water waves; Solitary waves; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CAPILLARITY; GRAVITY WAVES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SURFACE TENSION; THEOREM PROVING;

CAPILLARY-GRAVITY WATER WAVES; GRAVITY FIELD; SOLITARY WAVES; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 2942612628     PISSN: 02941449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anihpc.2003.06.003     Document Type: Article

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