Large-amplitude steady gravity water waves with general vorticity and critical layers

Jörg Weber, Erik Wahlén

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Abstract

We consider two-dimensional steady periodic gravity waves on water of finite depth with a prescribed but arbitrary vorticity distribution. The water surface is allowed to be overhanging and no assumptions regarding the absence of stagnation points and critical layers are made. Using conformal mappings and a new Babenko-type reformulation of Bernoulli's equation, we uncover an equivalent formulation as "identity plus compact", which is amenable to Rabinowitz' global bifurcation theorem. This allows us to construct a global connected set of solutions, bifurcating from laminar flows with a flat surface. Moreover, a nodal analysis is carried out for these solutions under a monotonicity assumption on the vorticity function.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherarXiv.org
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Computational Mathematics

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