On some properties of traveling water waves with vorticity

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1686-1692

  Varvaruca, Eugen ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Maximum principle; Vorticity; Water waves

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

A-PRIORI; FINITE DEPTH; GRAVITY WATER; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE;

VORTICITY;

EID: 43049145999     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070697513     Document Type: Article

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