Abstract: Fully localised solitary waves are travelling-wave solutions of the three-dimensional gravity-capillary water wave problem which decay to zero in every horizontal spatial direction. Their existence for water of finite depth has recently been established, and in this article we present an existence theory for water of infinite depth. The governing equations are reduced to a perturbation of the two-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation, which admits a family of localised solutions. Two of these solutions are symmetric in both horizontal ...
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Mathematical analysis
Classical mechanics
Mechanics