Large-scale modulations of edge waves

DOI10.1017/S002211208300155XzbMath0533.76012MaRDI QIDQ3316793

T. R. Akylas

Publication date: 1983

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

zbMATH Keywords

envelopes; envelope solitons; beach angles; large-scale modulations of weakly nonlinear edge waves; resonant interactions with incident wavetrains; steady-state standing subharmonic edge waves; temporal and spatial evolution; uniformly sloping beach; unstable to large-scale variations; water-wave formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

76B15: Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction

76B25: Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

76E20: Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows

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