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On Gerstner’s Water Wave

D. Henry

2008.1.1JOURNAL OF NONLINEAR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

DOI: 10.2991/jnmp.2008.15.s2.7

Abstract

Abstract We present a simple approach showing that Gerstner’s flow is dynamically possible: each particle moves on a circle, but the particles never collide and fill out the entire region below the surface wave.

Citation format

HENRY, D. On gerstner’s water wave. JOURNAL OF NONLINEAR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, 2008, 15: 87–95.