Symmetry of steady periodic water waves with vorticity

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

Volumn 365, Issue 1858, 2007, Pages 2203-2214

  Hur, Vera Mikyoung ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum principles; Nonlinear elliptic; Symmetry; Vorticity; Water waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548268646     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2007.2002     Document Type: Article

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