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Steady periodic water waves with constant vorticity: regularity and local bifurcation

Analysis of PDEs 2015-05-14 v2

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.

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@article{arxiv.0910.0618,
  title  = {Steady periodic water waves with constant vorticity: regularity and local bifurcation},
  author = {Adrian Constantin and Eugen Varvaruca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.0618},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Three new figures added, result in Appendix B improved, several new references added