Construction of exact solutions of the problem of the motion of a fluid with a free boundary using infinite systems of differential equations

Abstract

We consider the well-known hydrodynamics problem for the planar potential motion of an ideal incompressible fluid with a free boundary without capillarity and propose a method for finding exact solutions based on reducing the boundary-value problems to systems of ordinary differential equations. We obtain two examples of flows: a stationary motion of a heavy fluid over a smooth bottom and a nonstationary motion of a fluid that originally filled a wedge.