Document Type

Article

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This item is available under a Creative Commons License for non-commercial use only

Disciplines

Applied mathematics

Publication Details

Accepted for publication in 'Wave Motion'.

Abstract

We examine a 2-dimensional water-wave system, with gravitationally induced waves, consisting of a lower medium bound underneath by an impermeable flat bed and an upper medium bound above by an impermeable lid such that the 2 media have a free common interface. Both media have constant density and constant (non-zero) vorticity. By examining the governing equations of the system we calculate the Hamiltonian of the system in terms of it's conjugate variables and per- form a variable transformation to show that it has canonical Hamiltonian structure.

DOI

http://doi.org10.21427/8q5f-2e54


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