Interaction of two quasi-monochromatic waves in shallow water

DOI10.1063/1.1622394MaRDI QIDQ3554192zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Onorato, D. Ambrosi, Alfred R. Osborne, Marina Serio

Publication date 22 April 2010

Published in Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0210038

zbMATH Keywords

Korteweg-de Vries equationwater waveswave propagationSchrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Abstract: We study the nonlinear interactions of waves with a doubled-peaked power spectrum in shallow water. The starting point is the prototypical equation for nonlinear uni-directional waves in shallow water, i.e. the Korteweg de Vries equation. Using a multiple-scale technique two defocusing coupled Nonlinear Schr"odinger equations are derived. We show analytically that plane wave solutions of such a system can be unstable to small perturbations. This surprising result suggests the existence of a new energy exchange mechanism which could influence the behaviour of ocean waves in shallow water.

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