Proof of Modulational Instability of Stokes Waves in Deep Water

DOI10.1002/CPA.22073MaRDI QIDQ6077896zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Huy Quang Nguyen, Walter A. Strauss

Publication date 18 October 2023

Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05018

zbMATH Keywords

conformal mappingHamiltonianlinearizationnonlocal Dirichlet-Neumann operatorthird-order asymptotic expansionwater wave comprehensionZakharov-Craig-Sulem equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45)

Abstract: It is proven that small-amplitude steady periodic water waves with infinite depth are unstable with respect to long-wave perturbations. This modulational instability was first observed more than half a century ago by Benjamin and Feir. It has been proven rigorously only in the case of finite depth. We provide a completely different and self-contained approach to prove the spectral modulational instability for water waves in both the finite and infinite depth cases.

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