Abstract
We construct families of two-dimensional travelling water waves propagating under the influence of gravity in a flow of constant vorticity over a flat bed, in particular establishing the existence of waves of large amplitude. A Riemann–Hilbert problem approach is used to recast the governing equations as a one-dimensional elliptic pseudodifferential equation with a scalar constraint. The structural properties of this formulation, which arises as the Euler–Lagrange equation of an energy functional, enable us to develop a theory of analytic global bifurcation.
Citation
Adrian Constantin. Walter Strauss. Eugen Vărvărucă. "Global bifurcation of steady gravity water waves with critical layers." Acta Math. 217 (2) 195 - 262, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11511-017-0144-x
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