Existence and conditional energetic stability of solitary gravity-capillary water waves with constant vorticity

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 791-883

  Groves, M D ^a,b   Wahlen E ^c  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

calculus of variations; solitary waves; vorticity; water waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946185786     PISSN: 03082105     EISSN: 14737124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0308210515000116     Document Type: Article

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