Variational principles for water waves

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 906-920

  Kolev, B ^a   Sattinger, D H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PROVENCE   (France)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Poisson structures; Variational principles; Water waves

Indexed keywords

IRROTATIONAL FLOWS; POISSON STRUCTURES; STATIONARY GRAVITY WAVES;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; GRAVITY WAVES; HAMILTONIANS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 33947391591     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/050647220     Document Type: Article

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