Steady periodic water waves with constant vorticity: regularity and local bifurcation
Authors:
- Adrian ConstantinACAdrian Constantin
- Eugen VarvarucaEVEugen Varvaruca
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Abstract
This paper studies periodic traveling gravity waves at the free surface of water in a flow of constant vorticity over a flat bed. Using conformal mappings the free-boundary problem is transformed into a quasilinear pseudodifferential equation for a periodic function of one variable. The new formulation leads to a regularity result and, by use of bifurcation theory, to the existence of waves of small amplitude even in the presence of stagnation points in the flow.Keywords
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