Instability and breaking of a solitary wave

DOI10.1017/S002211208700315XzbMath0633.76045OpenAlexW2050324879MaRDI QIDQ3771849

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Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s002211208700315x

zbMATH Keywords

solitary waveslinear stabilitygrowth ratesmall perturbationsboundary-integral methodlong-time evolutionstable solitary waveliquid layer of constant depthtime- stepping schemeunstable normal-mode perturbation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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