Strong solutions for the Alber equation and stability of unidirectional wave spectra

DOI10.3934/KRM.2020024zbMATH Open1441.35191arXiv1808.05191OpenAlexW3013646213MaRDI QIDQ2197883FDOQ2197883

Agissilaos Athanassoulis, Mariya Ptashnyk, G. A. Athanassoulis, T. P. Sapsis

Publication date: 1 September 2020

Published in: Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Alber equation is a moment equation for the nonlinear Schr"odinger equation, formally used in ocean engineering to investigate the stability of stationary and homogeneous sea states in terms of their power spectra. In this work we present the first well-posedness theory for the Alber equation with the help of an appropriate equivalent reformulation. Moreover, we show linear Landau damping in the sense that, under a stability condition on the homogeneous background, any inhomogeneities disperse and decay in time. The proof exploits novel $L^2$ space-time estimates to control the inhomogeneity and our result applies to any regular initial data (without a mean-zero restriction). Finally, the sufficient condition for stability is resolved, and the physical implications for ocean waves are discussed. Using a standard reference dataset (the "North Atlantic Scatter Diagram") it is found that the vast majority of sea states are stable, but modulationally unstable sea states do appear, with likelihood $O(1/1000);$ these would be the prime breeding ground for rogue waves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05191

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zbMATH Keywords

Landau dampingWigner transformmodulation instabilityPenrose conditionAlber equationocean wave spectra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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