The instability of periodic surface gravity waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112011000073zbMath1241.76212MaRDI QIDQ2891571

Katie L. Oliveras, Bernard Deconinck

Publication date: 15 June 2012

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

instabilitysurface gravity waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17)

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