Modulational stability and instability of Korteweg-de Vries, Boussinesq, and Stokes nonlinear wavetrains

DOI10.1007/s13324-012-0042-5zbMath1254.35202OpenAlexW1988106117MaRDI QIDQ1926659

Lokenath Debnath

Publication date: 28 December 2012

Published in: Analysis and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13324-012-0042-5

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear Schrödinger equationWhitham's variational methodKdV and Boussinesq wavetrainsmodulational stability and instabilityStokes water waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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