TY - JOUR TI - Solitary wave solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations by He's variational method AU - Wang Fei-Yang AU - Sun Jian-She JN - Thermal Science PY - 2024 VL - 28 IS - 3 SP - 1959 EP - 1966 PT - Article AB - Existence of variational principles for Navier-Stokes equations has been discussing for hundreds of years, but it has not yet been solved. In this study, a new perspective is proposed, which uses a traveling wave transform, so that a variational formulation can be established. Furthermore, the solitary wave solutions are solved by He's variational method.