Equivalent formulations for steady periodic water waves of fixed mean-depth with discontinuous vorticity

Silvia Sastre-Gomez

doi:10.3934/dcds.2017114

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2017, Volume 37, Issue 5: 2669-2680. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017114

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Equivalent formulations for steady periodic water waves of fixed mean-depth with discontinuous vorticity

Silvia Sastre-Gomez^*, ,

Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Jornalista Aníbal Fernandes, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Silvia Sastre-Gomez, silvia.sastre@dmat.ufpe.br

^*The author is supported by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under the grant 13/CDA/2117

Received: June 2016

Revised: December 2016

Published: May 2017

The author is supported by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under the grant 13/CDA/2117.

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In this work we prove the equivalence between three different weak formulations of the steady periodic water wave problem where the vorticity is discontinuous. In particular, we prove that generalised versions of the standard Euler and stream function formulation of the governing equations are equivalent to a weak version of the recently introduced modified-height formulation. The weak solutions of these formulations are considered in Hölder spaces.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J25, 35D30, 76Bxx; Secondary: 76B15.

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