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A remark on the two dimensional water wave problem with surface tension

Analysis of PDEs 2017-12-04 v1

Abstract

We consider the motion of a two-dimensional interface between air (above) and an irrotational, incompressible, inviscid, infinitely deep water (below), with surface tension present. We propose a new way to reduce the original problem into an equivalent quasilinear system which are related to the interface's tangent angle and a quantity related to the difference of tangential velocities of the interface in the Lagrangian and the arc-length coordinates. The new way is relatively simple because it involves only taking differentiation and the real and the imaginary parts. Then if assuming that waves are periodic, we establish a priori energy inequality.

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@article{arxiv.1712.00090,
  title  = {A remark on the two dimensional water wave problem with surface tension},
  author = {Shuanglin Shao and Hsi-Wei Shih},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.00090},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

23 pages. Submitted

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