Flows of an Ideal Fluid: Variational Formulation and Gauge Principle

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 193-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsutomu Kambe
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2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 534-547
Author(s):  
Jifeng Chu ◽  
Joachim Escher

Abstract When the vorticity is monotone with depth, we present a variational formulation for steady periodic water waves of the equatorial flow in the f-plane approximation, and show that the governing equations for this motion can be obtained by studying variations of a suitable energy functional 𝓗 in terms of the stream function and the thermocline. We also compute the second variation of the constrained energy functional, which is related to the linear stability of steady water waves.


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