Nearly-Hamiltonian Structure for Water Waves with Constant Vorticity

Abstract

We show that the governing equations for two-dimensional gravity water waves with constant non-zero vorticity have a nearly-Hamiltonian structure, which becomes Hamiltonian for steady waves.

12 pages, AMS-LaTeX, no figures. To appear in Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics

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