Thomas H. Otway
Published 2003-12-17, updated 2004-08-17Version 2
Unusual features of water waves that Galileo described in a letter to Cardinal Orsini in 1616 are revisited from the perspectives of singular optics and geometric analysis.
Comments: tcilatex, 38 pages. To appear in the collection "Galileo and the Cultural Universe of the Renaissance," edited by G. Cwilich and F. Felsenstein
Dispersion equation for water waves with vorticity and Stokes waves on flows with counter-currents
On the (in)validity of the NLS-KdV system in the study of water waves
Variational Principles for Water Waves
