Poles and Branch Cuts in Free Surface Hydrodynamics

Abstract

We consider the motion of ideal incompressible fluid with free surface. We analyzed the exact fluid dynamics though the time-dependent conformal mapping $z=x+iy=z(w,t)$ of the lower complex half plane of the conformal variable $w$ into the area occupied by fluid. We established the exact results on the existence vs. nonexistence of the pole and power law branch point solutions for $1/z_w$ and the complex velocity. We also proved the nonexistence of the time-dependent rational solution of that problem for the second and the first order moving pole.