A justification of the modulation approximation to the 3D full water wave problem

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Abstract: We consider small amplitude wave packet-like solutions to the 3D inviscid incompressible irrotational infinite depth water wave problem neglecting surface tension. Formal multiscale calculations suggest that the modulation of such a solution is described by a profile traveling at group velocity and governed by a hyperbolic cubic nonlinear Schr"odinger equation. In this paper we show that, given wave packet initial data, the corresponding solution exists and retains the form of a wave packet on natural NLS time scales. Moreover, we give rigorous error estimates between the true and formal solutions on the appropriate time scale in Sobolev spaces using the energy method. The proof proceeds by directly applying modulational analysis to the formulation of the 3D water wave problem developed by Sijue Wu.


The author considers the 3D water waves problem i.e. the motion of the free interface separating an (upper) zero-density region from a (lower) region containing an inviscid incompressible irrotational fluid submitted to gravity. The Cauchy problem for this free boundary value problem is equivalent to a 2D system describing the evolution of the interface. In this article, the author studies a class of solutions of this last system which are perturbations of a wave packet propagating in the \(x\) direction, with an amplitude satisfying a 2D cubic non linear Schrödinger equation for large times and the goal is to provide a rigorous justification of this approximation.



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