Evolution of a short surface wave on a very long surface wave of finite amplitude

DOI10.1017/S0022112092001174zbMath0743.76017OpenAlexW2089706163MaRDI QIDQ3991488

Mamoun Naciri, Chiang C. Mei

Publication date: 28 June 1992

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112092001174

zbMATH Keywords

chaosHamiltonian systemLagrangian coordinatesmodulational instabilitytruncated Fourier seriesgravity waverotational solutionirrational short wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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