A constructive existence proof for the extreme Stokes wave

DOI10.1007/s00205-006-0003-yzbMath1105.76014OpenAlexW2158095594MaRDI QIDQ866906

L. Edward Fraenkel

Publication date: 14 February 2007

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-006-0003-y

zbMATH Keywords

contraction mappingsecond approximationNekrasov integral equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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