Steady water waves with multiple critical layers

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1436-1456

  Ehrnström, Mats ^a   Escher, Joachim ^a   Wahlén, Erik ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Critical layers; Steady water waves; Two dimensional bifurcation; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL LAYER; MULTI-MODAL; PERIODIC WATER WAVES; STEADY WATER WAVES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL BIFURCATION;

HYDRODYNAMICS; VORTICITY; WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 79960410622     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/100792330     Document Type: Article

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