Elliptic equations with transmission and Wentzell boundary conditions and an application to steady water waves in the presence of wind

Hung Le

doi:10.3934/dcds.2018144

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Elliptic equations with transmission and Wentzell boundary conditions and an application to steady water waves in the presence of wind

Hung Le

Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

Received: June 2017

Revised: January 2018

Published: July 2018

The first author was supported by the NNSF of China (No. 11501021), the second author was supported by the NNSF of China (No. 11301166).

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In this paper, we present results about the existence and uniqueness of solutions of elliptic equations with transmission and Wentzell boundary conditions. We provide Schauder estimates and existence results in Hölder spaces. As an application, we develop an existence theory for small-amplitude two-dimensional traveling waves in an air-water system with surface tension. The water region is assumed to be irrotational and of finite depth, and we permit a general distribution of vorticity in the atmosphere.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 35J25, 35B45, 76B03, 76B45.

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