Instability and breaking of a solitary wave

DOI10.1017/S002211208700315XzbMath0633.76045MaRDI QIDQ3771849

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Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s002211208700315x

zbMATH Keywords

solitary waves; linear stability; growth rate; small perturbations; boundary-integral method; long-time evolution; stable solitary wave; liquid layer of constant depth; time- stepping scheme; unstable normal-mode perturbation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

76B25: Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

76E17: Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability

76E99: Hydrodynamic stability

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