Minimization Methods for Quasi-Linear Problems with an Application to Periodic Water Waves

DOI10.1137/S0036141003432766zbMath1077.76058OpenAlexW2012439598MaRDI QIDQ5317374

Boris Buffoni, Éric Séré, John F. Toland

Publication date: 16 September 2005

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/s0036141003432766

zbMATH Keywords

penalizationa priori estimatesvariational methodexistence of critical points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30)

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