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A variational principle for three-dimensional water waves over Beltrami flows

Mathematical Physics 2018-04-13 v1 Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We consider steady three-dimensional gravity-capillary water waves with vorticity propagating on water of finite depth. We prove a variational principle for doubly periodic waves with relative velocities given by Beltrami vector fields, under general assumptions on the wave profile.

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@article{arxiv.1804.04172,
  title  = {A variational principle for three-dimensional water waves over Beltrami flows},
  author = {Evgeniy Lokharu and Erik Wahlén},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04172},
  year   = {2018}
}
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