On the stability of weakly nonlinear short waves on finite-amplitude long gravity waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112092002635MaRDI QIDQ4021178zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jun Zhang, W. Kendall Melville

Publication date 17 January 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112092002635

zbMATH Keywords

modulated nonlinear Schrödinger equationsteady envelope solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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