Well-posedness in Sobolev spaces of the full water wave problem in 2-D

1997/09/03 by Sijue Wu · 468 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Mathematics · #Acceleration #Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems #Aquatic and Environmental Studies #Classical mechanics #Compressibility #Conservative vector field #Interface (matter) #Inviscid flow #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Mechanics #Navier-Stokes equation solutions #Physics #Slosh dynamics #Sobolev space #Surface tension #Uniqueness

paper · doi:10.1007/s002220050177

published in Inventiones mathematicae 130(1), 39-72 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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