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New singularities for Stokes waves

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In 1880, Stokes famously demonstrated that the singularity that occurs at the crest of the steepest possible water wave in infinite depth must correspond to a corner of 120°. Here, the complex velocity scales like f where f is the complex potential. Later in 1973, Grant showed that for any wave away from the steepest configuration, the singularity f = f* moves into the complex plane, and is of order (f - f*)½ (J. Flu...

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10.1017/jfm.2016.309

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University of Oxford
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MPLS
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Mathematical Institute
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Lincoln College
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics Journal website
Volume:
798
Pages:
256- 283
Publication date:
2016-05-31
Acceptance date:
2016-04-28
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1469-7645
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2016-06-01

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