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Variational methods for nonlinear waves occur in a number of contexts, and I will describe some of these methods in this lecture. There is also an extensive theory for free boundary value problems in potential fluid flow [13] - that is, the flow of an irrotational, inviscid fluid. These problems may be formulated as variational problems [32] for the stream function and have received considerable attention in recent years [3, 31].
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Cercignani, C., Sattinger, D.H. (1998). Variational Methods. In: Scaling Limits and Models in Physical Processes. DMV Seminar, vol 28. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8810-3_8
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