Chaotic motions in a weakly nonlinear model for surface waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112086002082zbMath0602.76015MaRDI QIDQ3738737

Philip J. Holmes

Publication date: 1986

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

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationphase spaceaveraging methodsstanding wavesSmale horseshoestransverse homoclinic orbitsweakly nonlinear modeldynamical-systems theoryglobal perturbation techniqueN-degrees-of-freedom Hamiltonian system with weak dissipationparametrically excited surface wavessets of chaotic orbitsvertical periodic oscillations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K20) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Local and nonlocal bifurcation theory for dynamical systems (37G99)

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