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Spatial Dynamics Methods for Solitary Gravity-Capillary Water Waves with an Arbitrary Distribution of Vorticity

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Summary, in English

This paper presents existence theories for several families of small-amplitude solitary-wave solutions to the classical two-dimensional water-wave problem in the presence of surface tension and with an arbitrary distribution of vorticity. Moreover, the established local bifurcation diagram for irrotational solitary waves is shown to remain qualitatively unchanged for any choice of vorticity distribution. The hydrodynamic problem is formulated as an infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian system in which the horizontal spatial direction is the timelike variable. A center-manifold reduction technique is employed to reduce the system to a locally equivalent Hamiltonian system with a finite number of degrees of freedom. Homoclinic solutions to the reduced system, which correspond to solitary water waves, are detected by a variety of dynamical systems methods.

Department/s

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

932-964

Publication/Series

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volume

39

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Topic

  • Mathematics

Keywords

  • capillarity
  • water waves
  • vorticity
  • bifurcation theory

Status

Published

Research group

  • Partial differential equations

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0036-1410