On the stability of steep gravity waves

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1984.0122MaRDI QIDQ3745495zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. S. Longuet-Higgins

Publication date 1984

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1984.0122

zbMATH Keywords

conditions for the existenceinstabilitynormal modepure- phase-shiftSmall perturbationsstabilitysteep gravity wavessuperharmonic perturbationstwo-dimensional steady progressive waveszero limiting frequency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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