Abstract



Harvey Segur
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Colorado, Boulder

Water waves of permanent form

The study of water waves has a long history, dating back to ancient times. Within the last few years, several people have studied fully nonlinear, fully three-dimensional waves that travel as waves of permanent form. This talk presents an overview of some of this work, including results from analysis, perturbation theory, and laboratory experiments. These travelling waves are of interest in both shallow and deep water, and the results are different in the two situations.

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